“We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

-Sam Keen

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Its our Light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented or fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

- Marianne Williamson

"The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both."

-Zen Buddhist

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

I do not know who wrote this otherwise I'd give credit where it is due. This is beautifully written. Amen.

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
- Pericles

http://allafrica.com/stories/200704160942.html

Well isn't that a bitch. Way to go America. Always fucking with the rest of the world.

"If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God."
- Ramakrishna

And that sums it all up.

If I was God I'd cry too
Shedding tears that turn to comets
And wash the world with painful tears
To see these beings, so capable
And the destruction they have brought

If I was God I'd bleed so deep
To see one man destroy another in hate
Like a waterfall of astonishment
Why do you not see what is here
What has been placed for you all to cherish

If I was God I'd pray for the world
So that change may one day actually occur
So that man loves beast, and beast loves man
And nature is a heavenly garden, like Eden on earth
And one may walk beneath the stars, and look up

If I was God I'd cry too
And my tears would turn to smiles
To see a small few struggle in a corrupted well
Trapped, but still finding a way to reach the top
And show the world that there is hope

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
-Babatunde Olatunji

And thats the realest thing ever.