Fight 4 Freedom

 Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.  – John Cogley

  Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it’s covered; for inside those tattered pages, there’s a lot to be discovered.  – Stephen Cosgrove

  The right to be respected is won by respecting others.  – Vasyl Sukhomlynsky

   When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.  – Dalai Lama

  A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.  – Felix Adler

  When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.  – Arapaho proverb

  Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.  – Orhan Pamuk

   Respecting others’ opinions doesn’t mean being untrue to our own.  – P. M. Forni

   As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.  – Robert Schuller

 Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.  – John Herschell

  “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  “No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.” Buddha

  “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.” Aung San Suu Kyi

  “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” William Faulkner

  “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.” Charlotte Brontë,  Jane Eyre

  “Freedom lies in being bold.” Robert Frost

  “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”                                  Nelson Mandela

  “Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else." Epictetus

  “For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.” Albert Einstein

  “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” Herbert Hoover

  . “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

  "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

    “With love and patience, nothing is impossible.” - Daisaku Ikeda.

  “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” - Lemony Snicket.

  "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie.

  . "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein.

    “If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.” - Lyndon B. Johnson.

    “If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.” - John Steinbeck.

    "We are all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding." - Beau Taplin.

    "You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding." - Guy Finley.

  "Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love." - John Steinbeck.

    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” - Ernest Hemingway.

    “Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.” - Emma Goldman.

  My jelly jar glasses expire from too much longing colliding with gravity. I bury the shards in my yard. Maybe they will grow into a preserved fruit tree no one can see.

  “ THANK YOU ” If you find yourself half naked and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing, again, the earth’s great, sonorous moan that says you are the air of the now and gone, that says all you love will turn to dust, and will meet you there, do not raise your fist. Do not raise your small voice against it. And do not take cover. Instead, curl your toes into the grass, watch the cloud ascending from your lips. Walk through the garden’s dormant splendor. Say only, thank you. Thank you.  BY ROSS GAY

  “ AUTUMN ”  A touch of cold in the Autumn night— I walked abroad, And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge Like a red-faced farmer. I did not stop to speak, but nodded, And round about were the wistful stars With white faces like town children. BY T.E. HULME

   “ FOG ”  The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. BY CARL SANDBURG

   “ YOU TOOK THE LAST BUS HOME ”  you took the last bus home don’t know how you got it through the door you’re always doing amazing stuff like that time you caught a train BY BRIAN BILSTON

  “ IN THE METRO STATION ”  The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. BY EZRA POUND

   “ THE GOOD LIFE ” When some people talk about money They speak as if it were a mysterious lover Who went out to buy milk and never Came back, and it makes me nostalgic For the years I lived on coffee and bread, Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday Like a woman journeying for water From a village without a well, then living One or two nights like everyone else On roast chicken and red wine.  BY TRACY K. SMITH

  “ RISK ” And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.  BY ANAÏS NIN

   “ THE POOL ”  Are you alive? I touch you. You quiver like a sea-fish. I cover you with my net. What are you—banded one?  BY H.D.

  “What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”     Dean Smith

  “A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.”    Billie Jean King

  “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.”    Derek Jeter

  “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”    Billie Jean King

 “One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.”    Knute Rockne

 “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”    Pele

  “Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.”   Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  “The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.”    Ernie Banks

  “Home is where you feel loved, appreciated, and safe.”    Tracey Taylor

  “A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.”    David A. Bednar

  “Where we love is home — home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 

  “May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.”  Unknown

  “Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”  Irina Shayk

  “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”  Robert Frost

  “He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  “No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home.”  Laura Marney

  The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.”  Unknown 

 A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.  Max Lucado

 Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.  Brian Tracy

 The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.  Eric Hoffer

 A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.  John Maxwell

 People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.  John Maxwell

 Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.  Publilius Syrus

 I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.  Ralph Nader

 Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.   General George Patton

 Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.  Eleanor Roosevelt

 I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.  Herbert Swope

 Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”   Mao Zedong

 “A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.”   Bernard Baruch

 “It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.”   Pope Francis

   “Travel – the best way to be lost and found at the same time”   Brenna Smith

  “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough”   Mae West

   “People don’t take trips — trips take people”   John Steinbeck

  “Don’t listen to what they say, go see”   Chinese Proverb

   “It feels good to be lost in the right direction”   Unknown

   “To travel is to live”    Hans Christian Anderson

   “Don’t quit your day dream”   Anonymous

 “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself”   Unknown

  “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself”   Wallace Stevens

   “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right”   Tony Robbins

   “Take only memories, leave only footprints ”   Chief Seattle

  . “There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them”   Jo Walton

   We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone”   Katie Thurmes

  “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world”   Mary Anne Radmacher

    “The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.” -Mark Twain.

    “You cannot share your life with a dog…or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.” - Jane Goodall .

    “Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.” -Max Eastman.

“In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the dog.” -Toussenel.

  . “Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.” -George Eliot, ‘Mr Gilfil's Love Story,’ 1857.

    “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.” - Anatole France .

    “An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.” -Martin Buber.

    “Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!” -Theophile Gautier.

    “I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.” -Walt Whitman.

 “Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky, ‘Karamazov Brothers,’ 1880.

 “All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.” -Samuel Butler.

    “I love animals, sometimes more than people, because they don't judge. All they want is love.” -H.J. Lawson, ‘War Kids,’ 2014.

    “Lots of people talk to animals...not very many listen though...that's the problem.” -Benjamin Hoff, ‘ The Tao Of Pooh ,’ 1982.

  “Happiness is the feeling that power increases that resistance is being overcome.”  —  Friedrich Nietzsche

  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.  – Alexander Graham Bell

  “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”  –  Bruce Lee

  “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”  –  Ralph Waldo Emerson