Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
- Leo F. Buscaglia
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around you.
- Richard Bach
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
- Edward de Bono
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Let’s honor our mistakes by allowing them to teach us. Let’s consider our failings to be gifts, and share them humbly with others. Let the cracks in our perfect facades let in light and air so that new life can grow through them.
- Molly Gordon
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they’re not tempted to think about any other role.
- William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
- Cynthia Heimel, “Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics” in Village Voice
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
- Charles Evans Hughes
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
- Florence King
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
When we consider that woman are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organizer of the first Women’s Convention, Seneca Falls, N.Y., 1848
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
- Dr. Schlessinger
Woah a girl on the Internet! Hey guyz, let’s pester her until we drive her insane and say “Yeah I knew she was a dramawhore” after she goes off on us!
- Halloween Jack
Krist. Always caring. Always honest. Always with the yapping.
- Dooley
Krist has 3 threads on the frontpage with her name in the title
truly she is a goddess amongst mere mortals
- syn
you’re one of my favorite parts of FORUM. funny happens where you go
- Ben
Krist is a damned nice girl, very sweet, and has a great sense of humor. The only thing you need to be wary of is that she is quite fertile so wrap it son. Seriously though, she is a nice woman and was quite the fixture on another forum I used to spend a good chunk of time in.
- Sourpatch
