"I'm concentrating on...."

“I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy,
remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading,
trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.”
~ Joan Jett

Public domain image by NASA:  X-ray: NASA/CXC/J.Hester (ASU); Optical: NASA/ESA/J.Hester & A.Loll (ASU); Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R.Gehrz (Univ. Minn.)

"Instead of being presented with stereotypes...."

“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
~ Margaret Mead

morgueFile photo "kakisky"

"...just as salmon swim upstream."

“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.
It's by the nature of his deep inner soul...
we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.”
~ Neil Armstrong

morgueFile photo "imma"

"...the privilege of owning yourself.”

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.
But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

morgueFile photo "jfelias"

"Smiling is very important."

“Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.”
~ Nhat Hanh

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"Our defense...."

“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes

liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

morgueFile photo "carnage"