"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up."
"To play it safe is not to play."
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter"
"If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes."
More Respectable Quotes:
"The high prize of life, the crowning glory of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness - whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords or canals, or statues, or songs."
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one."
"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile."
"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all."
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. "
"Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less."
"We all want to change the world."
"It's a fool who plays it cool by making this world a little colder. "
"There's battle lines being drawn. Nobody's right if everybody's wrong. Young people speaking their minds Getting so much resistance from behind. "
"Get up, stand up! Stand up for your right! Don't give up the fight!"
"Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
"I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people "
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've always imagined. "
"I'm the one who's gonna die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want."
"If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair."
"I'm just beginning to see... The trees are drawing me near, I've got to find out why. "
"Live and let live."
Even More Respectable Quotes:
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free "
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."
"A time for love, a time for hate, a time for peace, I swear it's not too late. "
"Animals are my friends-and I don't eat my friends."
"The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals killed for human food are subjected in traveling long distances by ship and rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world. God disapproves of all cruelty.. whether to man or beast. The occupation of slaughtering animals is brutalising to those who are required to do the work.... I believe this matter is well worthy of the serious consideration of Christian leaders."
"I’ve always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don’t fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we’re smarter—what a joke."
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds. "
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. "
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied today, then every Post-War American president would have to be hanged."
"Love is all you need."
"Dejeme decirle, a riesgo de parecer ridiculo, que el revolucionario verdadero esta guiado por grandes sentimientos de amor."
"Let me say at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. "
"With our love we could save the world"
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that."
"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."
"We don’t have a democracy."
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
"The Future is no place to place your better days. "
"Homophobia is a social disease."
"It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. "
"Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul."
"What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't."
"I get sick of listening to straight people complain about, "Well, hey, we don't have a heterosexual-pride day, why do you need a gay-pride day?" I remember when I was a kid I'd always ask my mom: "Why don't we have a Kid's Day? We have a Mother's Day and a Father's Day, but why don't we have a Kid's Day?" My mom would always say, "Every day is Kid's Day." To all those heterosexuals that bitch about gay pride, I say the same thing: Every day is heterosexual-pride day! Can't you people enjoy your banquet and not piss on those of us enjoying our crumbs over here in the corner?"
Optical illusion: Is this picture moving?
So I've decided to take a different route in life. I am now on a journey to travel the world. "Where will I end up?" is a question I will continue to ask every step of the way. Right now, nothing matters and I just need to get away from it all. There's too much stress here and people are too often ina hurry or uptight about something. It kills people to even try to smile and everyone seems like they hate their life no matter how good they have it. I got "let go" from my job at the paper about 2 weeks ago and have since had a severe lack of funds, making me unable to pay anything due this month. I sold things that were not impotant to me and had no value such as the tv, the vast amount of designer jeans I once owned, various knick knacks, videos/books/and cds I hardly ever did anything with, pricey labeled shoes, the home telephone, stereo stystem, sofas, and lots of other things that I will hardly miss. Truth is, I don't need any of it. All I own right now is my laptop(2 months payes internet), my cell phone, my sleeping bag, and my cat. I'm in the process of selling my furniture and clothing as well as many other things. Who needs any of that stuff anyway, all I need is me, my small amount of useful amounts, the world's best cat, and my car to help. My apartment is leased already and I plan to move out by the end of next week. My friend Beth offered me a place to stay in Texas but I had to refuse because I wanted to explore. I need time to figure out where I stand in life, where I want to go, and who I want to be. I'll start by driving east since weather is somewhat "bad" up north and mid west, and see where I go from there. I'll just take it one step at a time. If anyone reading this has any suggestions on where to go, please let me know. I'm up for an adventure...anyone willing to join me? Until next time, I'm out.
KJ
. Everything has been pretty much the same with the exception of a few interesting events.