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Time to plant tears, says the Almanac. Elizabeth Bishop
Time to plant tears, says the Almanac.
Elizabeth Bishop
The absence of the dead . . . is their way of appearing. Simone Weil
The absence of the dead . . . is their way of appearing.
Simone Weil
There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen. Carlos Fuentes
There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen.
Carlos Fuentes
Death doesn’t take the time to knock on the door. Yiddish folk saying
Death doesn’t take the time to knock on the door.
Yiddish folk saying
The practice of terror serves the true believer not only to cow and crush his opponents but also to invigorate and intensify his own faith. Eric Hoffer
The practice of terror serves the true believer not only to cow and crush his opponents but also to invigorate and intensify his own faith.
Eric Hoffer
The first and greatest commandment is, Don’t let them scare you. Elmer Davis
The first and greatest commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Chief Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, and his people, believed he was immortal, and he, and they, were right every day of his life except one. Richard Paul Haight
Chief Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, and his people, believed he was immortal, and he, and they, were right every day of his life except one.
Richard Paul Haight
The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death. Albert Camus
The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
Albert Camus
Without your wounds where would your power be? The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken in the wheels of living. In love’s service, only the wounded soldiers can serve. Thornton Wilder
Without your wounds where would your power be? The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken in the wheels of living. In love’s service, only the wounded soldiers can serve.
Thornton Wilder
War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes . . . as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to “feel good” about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure. Adrienne Rich
War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes . . . as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to “feel good” about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.
Adrienne Rich
It is simply not true that war never settles anything. Felix Frankfurter
It is simply not true that war never settles anything.
Felix Frankfurter
The most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good. Katherine Anne Porter
The most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.
Katherine Anne Porter
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. Mohandas K. Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. Italian proverb
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
Italian proverb
Now you know the worst / we humans have to know / about ourselves, and I am sorry. Wendell Berry
Now you know the worst / we humans have to know / about ourselves, and I am sorry.
Wendell Berry
Even for our enemies in misery, there should be tears in our eyes. Charan Singh
Even for our enemies in misery, there should be tears in our eyes.
Charan Singh
And this is the simple truth — that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. Søren Kierkegaard
And this is the simple truth — that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
Søren Kierkegaard
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own. Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Antonio Porchia
Wall Street, September 26, 2001© Mark Townsend
Wall Street, September 26, 2001