My food for though.... things that I take to heart! Sent to me, by my daughter but Echos my own views and thoughts...& Beliefs...
"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
"Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't"
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."
The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off."
Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for."
"Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it."
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live."
"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies."
"Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation."
When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever."
"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."
A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find, lucky to have.
A friend is one who beliver in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
A friend is someone who accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.
hold on to the ones who really care, because in the end, they'll be the only ones there.
Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.
I believe in God, only I spell it nature,
Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
If you aren't going to say something directly to someone's face, than don't use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
"If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me
"A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else. "
