Donna

“can listen and counsel. You can lend ideas and hard work and home-cooked meals. You can be a friend and a fan. You can share your favorite books and fix a flat tire. You can inspire people and encourage them. You can sweat beside them and support them. But you cannot make their choices for them. You cannot take their excuses from them. You cannot make them resilient.”
― Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“I asked myself, do I want my kingdom here in the big, loud, visible now, or do I want the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of the small, the kingdom for the broken, the kingdom of the invisible? Only one is satisfactory. Only one King can tie the church back together. Only one is the healer of my mind, my body, and my soul.”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home