"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition — and then admit that we just don’t want to do it."
- Stephen Colbert

"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle."
- George Orwell

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

"Think I'm done gunnin' for some imagined bliss--
just gotta knuckle down and be ok with this."
- Ani Difranco, "Knuckle Down"

"The main thing is to pay attention, pay clear attention to everything you see.  Notice what no one else notices, and you'll know what no one else knows."
- Loris Harrow  

“If you don’t find it in the index, look very carefully throughout the entire catalog.”
- Sears-Roebuck catalog

"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."
- Dorothy Day

"So I just put on a jacket that I haven't worn since last fall, and I put my hands in the pockets and pulled out a Welch's fruit snacks wrapper.  All you, baby."
- Laura

"Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me--so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins."
Audre Lorde

"Miniature disasters and minor catastrophoes
Bring me to my knees
Well I must be my own master
Or a miniature disaster will be
It will be the death of me"
- KT Tunstall, "Miniature Disasters"

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."
- Lin Yutang

"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."
- Gloria Steinem, Moving Beyond Words

“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.”
- Marsha Norman

"Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive."
- Colossians 3:13

"And to think that in some countries these dogs are eaten."
- Buck, Best in Show

“As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”
- Adelle Davis

"Believe in yourself and all that you are.  Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."
- Cristian D. Larson

"The scriptures give us patience and encouragement so that we can have hope."
- Romans 15:4

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“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”
- James Joyce

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.  No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for.  You are made in the image of what you desire."
- Thomas Merton 

"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."
- M.T. Anderson, Feed

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
- Harriet Tubman

"Yet we know that a person is made right with God not by following the law, but by trusting in Jesus Christ.  So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we might be made right with God because we trusted in Christ.  It is not because we followed the law, because no one can be made right with God by following the law."
- Galatians 2:16

"It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy."
- George, My Best Friend's Wedding

"I choose kindness, I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone, kind to the rich, for they are afraid and kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me."
- Max Lucado

"I promise, there is still opportunity to contribute something new to the world.  It happened the day you were born and can happen every day thereafter."
- Marta Dansie, "Introspection No.1" (via)

"...behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass."
- The Book of Mormon, Alma 37

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
- Guillaume Apollinaire

"Live a life less ordinary
Live a life extraordinary with me
Live a life less sedentary
Live a life evolutionary with me"
- Carbon Leaf

"God's delays are not God's denials."
- Robert H. Schuller