"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt,"

Man has control of his actions but never the fruit of his actions.

We made this choice not because it was easy but because we thought it would be easy.

Make new friends, but keep the old.
One is silver, the other is gold.
A circle is round, it has no end.
That's how long, I will be your friend.
A fire burns bright, it warms the heart.
We've been friends, from the very start.
You have one hand, I have the other.
Put them together, we have each other

When we don't have money for people and healthcare and schools but we always have money for bombs. Trump’s Iran war is costing American taxpayers $1 billion a day as the national debt spirals out of control. SAD COVFEFE.

"If you're using undocumented people's tax records to track and detain them, it was never about taxes.
If you're showing up at their workplaces, it was never about them not working hard enough.

If you're waiting for them in courthouses,, it was never about doing it the "right way.”
If you're tearing families apart, it was never about stopping criminals.

If you're denying them due process, it was never about the Constitution.
If you're spending billions of dollars for these operations, it was never about the economy.
And if you're doing all of this in the name of a 34-time convicted felon, it was never about following the law.”

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don't let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Robert Kennedy

"You don't control the world around you, you control how you respond to it" -a core tenet of Stoic philosophy.

"Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things." –Kurt Vonnegut

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless the thing you truly love is wisdom then the thing you love will be your downfall.

“ And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” ~Marianne Williamson

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine... ~Marianne Williamson

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

The Swallowtails NEW ALBUM: Perspective Songstresses turned Swallowtails arrange to release a new record; fluttering through themes of friendship alongside flowering melodies.

I just backed The Swallowtails NEW ALBUM: Perspective on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
Tom Stoppard-
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

"The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others"- Erik Erikson.

For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in..." The people who claim to follow these words seem to be willfully forgetful when it comes to living by them.

“The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power” ― Wael Ghonim

"You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally." Haruki Murakami

I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy. Haruki Murakami

"Growth comes at the point of resistance."
- Josh Waitzkin

"There are two ways of being fooled: One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Kierkegaard

The Kansas City CHIEFS are going back to their 3rd straight Super Bowl!!!

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw