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All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden. ~Terri Guillemets



If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew. ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet



Few minds wear out; more rust out. ~Christian N. Bovee



You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy. ~Melissa Etheridge, "Silent Legacy," Yes I Am, 1993



Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. ~Lydia M. Child



Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy. ~Emily Dickinson



You can't take something off the Internet - it's like taking pee out of a pool. ~Author Unknown, 1995



Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault. ~Nat Hentoff



Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything. ~Author Unknown



To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. ~Milan Kundera



You might be a firefighter if your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you. ~Author Unknown



Firefighting is all about ass - busting ours to save yours. ~Author Unknown



The sun is nature's Prozac. ~Astrid Alauda, 1990



Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ~Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva



I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. ~Lucan



A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ~Niccolo Machiavelli