Quotes June 14, 2022

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
James Baldwin,
writer
 
 
 
 
“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” – John Stuart Mill
 
 
 
 
“Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.”
Thurgood Marshall
 
 
 
 
(I disagree. It depends on the situation, especially the death of a loved one.)
“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, from “The Pearl of Orr’s Island”
 
 
 
 
Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson – 1830-1886 – American Lyric-Poet
 
 
 
 
Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.
If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.
Anderson Cooper,
broadcast journalist, anchor
June is Pride Month
 
 
 
 
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything!
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.
Unknown