“Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to that all personal and local considerations.” WorldCountryWatchesTroubleSacrificeMankindDutySafetySacredLocalsBelovedMotiveConsiderationHonorablePosterityAgitateBeloved Country Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.” MenLoveMayEyeSufferingTroubleHuman NatureMastersSacredRateTiesLove Life Book:The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.” SelfChristianJoySpiritSufferingOpportunityGivenAttitudeTroubleSorrowDifficultyRegardSacredReactionsPityResentmentCrownsThornsSelf PityFatalismGiven Opportunity Author:James Stewart
“Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.” YearsRealMightChoicesFightingSleepWalksStruggleTakenTroublePaidPraiseSacredAbundanceGatesWombDoorwaysOur ChoicesSquad Author:Marge Piercy