When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait.
-Paulo Coelho

"Practices and not principles are what enable us to live together in peace. Conversations across boundaries of identity, whether national, religious or something else, <<disallowed word>>begin with the sort of imaginative engagement You get when you read a novel, watch a movie or attend to a piece of at that speaks from some place other than your own."

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

dogs and angels are not very far apart —charles bukowski

"The essential things in life are not seen with the eyes, but with the heart.":heartbeat:

Don’t try to make people change…pray for them and let God do the changing. – Joyce Meyer

"The deeper your scars, the more room there is to fill them up with love." -Daniel Chidiac

About last night.
 

To bread I do not ask to teach me
but only not to lack during every day of life.

-- Neruda

"What I like doing best is Nothing."
"How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.
"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it.
It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
"Oh!" said Pooh." ~ A.A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh"

everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell -nietzche

"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks." ~ Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"

[So true. Just sayin'.]

"Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary." -Oscar Wilde