ANGER..!

"Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy..."

Forgiveness....

It is very easy to forgive others in their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

-Jessamyn West

Forgiveness....

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

-Henry Ward Beecher

There is time for everything...

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Choice..!

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

It's a matter of CHOICE...

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

- Barbara De Angelis

Advice..

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

- Adlai Stevenson

Action..

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

-Albert Einstein

Ethics...

"Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives."

- Ayn Rand, 20th-century Russian/American novelist and philosopher

Morality...

"Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value."

- Bertrand Russell, 20th-century British mathematician and philosopher