Quote of the Day

(Lavan House, Easter 2012: Spokane, WA)

Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos. 
"A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
- John 13:34-35

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"I see beauty in this metaphor of sacrifice and of asking others to make a similar kind of sacrifice. I see the appeal of this aspirational goal to become someone who would be willing to give that much of themselves for another, even if that person did nothing to earn it. Because we can never be worthy or unworthy of someone else's sacrifice. Because just by being born we all have human rights and deserve respect and equality and kindness..."
- M.G.

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"Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith."
- Margaret Shepard

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"It's time to begin, isn't it?
I get a little bit bigger, but then I'll admit
I'm just the same as I was
Now don't you understand
That I'm never changing who I am"
- Imagine Dragons, "It's Time"

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“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."
- Andy Warhol

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"How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence."
- E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday

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"Beyond obsessions, curiosity, and creativity, lies a host of motivation not to seek information."
- David Johnson

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"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
- John Ruskin

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"Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro,
In all the raging impotence of woe."
- Homer, The Iliad, Book XXII

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"See, these men think they're the 'good guys.'  The bad guys are in movies, climbing through windows or attacking women in parking lots.  And those guys do exist, without a doubt, but if men are unwilling to acknowledge their own behavior as part of a rape culture, women are going to continue to experience these traumatic 'gray' areas and not feel able to call it out.  If men are more interested in protecting their ingrained beliefs than they are right and good and entitled to behave in these ways, than treating women as more than sexual conquests, they aren't likely to change."
- Meghan Murphy (via)

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"All women's issues are to some degree men's issues, and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues.  Because when either sex wins unilaterally, both sexes lose."
- Warren Farrell

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"I don't want [women] ever to think they have to have it all.  I think that's a revolting concept.  It's so false!  Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things.  And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you."
- Emma Thompson

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"When you give, see that you give that which multiplies in giving."
- Raymond Lull

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“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man’s sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“She took particular comfort in certain familiar sights and sounds that marked her day: the buzz of the fluorescent lights, the pale figures sprawled silent and motionless over their reading, the reassuring feel of her book cart as she wheeled it down the aisle, and the books themselves, symbols of order on their backs -- young adulthood reduced to YA, mystery reduced to a tiny red skull.”
- T.E.D. Klein

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"He's four credits shy of a degree in Bro Studies."
- Jack, 30 Rock

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"Habemus papam!"
- Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran

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"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
- St. Francis of Assisi

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"What is creative courage? It is the willingness to pursue new forms, new symbols and new patterns of truth with all the risks. The alternative is stagnation. Every profession –- technology, diplomacy, business, the arts, medicine, law –- requires those who possess a creative courage."
- William Edelen (via)

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"Rethink our visual brand, take these words, and make something amazing!...Yes, essentially I'd like you to choose a new font."
- Chris, Parks and Recreation 4.08

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"Americans like to boast that we're the freest country on Earth, yet half the population doesn't even feel free enough to go on a walk at night."
- Jackson Katz

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"The question why I would let [my daughter] cut her hair.  First the 'let' must be challenged. This is a world where women, girls are constantly reminded that they don't belong to themselves; that their bodies are not their own, nor their power or self determination.  I made a promise to endow my little girl with the power to always know that her body, spirit and her mind are her domain.  [She] cut her hair because her beauty, her value, her worth is not measured by the length of her hair."
- Jada Pinkett Smith

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“What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.”
- Jane Austen

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"Be nice to yourself.  It's hard to be happy when someone is mean to you all the time."
- Christine Arylo

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"Why are we running?  What are we doing?"
- Carl, The Walking Dead

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"We’re masters of the attentive float.  We get in and out of the water easily and are very happy to find our friends waiting on the beach, offering a towel and a shard of poetry washed ashore from the deep pool of our distracted wanderings."
- Elizabeth Drescher

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"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first."
- William Shakespeare

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"I am Cat. 
At night I prowl, but in the day I sleep, curled in warm places. 
And when I sleep I dream...
I am a tiger, flame cat of the forest;
A cheetah, fast as the wind on the African plains;
A lion, lounging through the heat of the day;
A jaguar, perfectly camouflaged deep in the jungle.
But above all, I am Cat."
- Jackie Morris, "I am Cat"

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"I felt like St. Peter and the apostles in the boat on the Sea of ​​Galilee.  The Lord has given us many days of sunshine and a light breeze, the days when the fishing is plentiful.  But there were also times when the water was rough...and the Lord seemed to be sleeping."
- Pope Benedict XVI (via)