Quote of the Day

"All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't.  And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity."
- Robert Kennedy

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"Pain is inevitable.  Suffering is optional."
- Haruki Murakami

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"Tell me all about your foreign wars
and all about the photographs that line your drawers
'Cause I know a lot about closing doors
but not enough about what opens up yours"
- Andrew Belle, "Oh My Stars"

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"Action expresses priorities."
- Mahatma Gandhi

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"May God bless you with discomfort.  Discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.  Amen."
- A Franciscan Blessing (via)

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"I had to accept that I am not a doctor, or a counselor, or a priest who could offer them healing or absolution.  But I hoped that God could still use me to bring hope and light with what I had to offer -- a smile, a knowing nod, a squeeze of the hand."
- Bridget Higginbotham (via)

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
- Winston Churchill

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"Is she a hopelessly romantic idealist, trapped in the hard-nosed, fast-paced whirlwind of modern lesbian life?  Or is she just a drag?"
- Alison Bechdel, Dykes to Watch Out For (1987)

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"Bagels and donuts.  Round food for every mood."
- Chandler, Friends 9.11

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"Let’s start with the idea that mothers can’t change the world. WHAT! They’re changing diapers and cooking dinner and organizing the protest, they’re securing childcare and figuring out how to make ends meet, and that survival is resistance in the face of bullshit like this ad campaign."
- Veronica Bayetti Flores, "Will the Teen Mom Shaming Ever Stop?" (via)

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Spokane JVs, July 2012

"Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by concentrated poverty and a vulnerable middle class, a society where it is harder to pay for education, harder to find a job, harder to buy a house and harder to hold onto those things even if you manage to get them. You are entering adulthood during a period of mass incarceration and near constant war. There is a lot for you to do. Service is the rent you pay for the space you take up on the earth, and as a relatively privileged American you take up a lot of space. We are the most consuming, polluting, wasteful nation on earth. So your rent is steep. Pay it with service."
- Melissa Harris-Perry (via)

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Quote of the Day

Illuminations, May 2011

“When is the night over?  Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it?  Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?”
- Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

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Commencement, May 2011

"We have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work.  We have been created in order to love and to be loved."
- Mother Teresa

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Ivy Day, May 2011

"I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children."
- Dolly Parton

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Illuminations, May 2011

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
- Corrie Ten Boom

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Senior week, May 2011

"It’s really uncomfortable to see a strong, child-like character get tarted up and flash bedroom eyes at you, but it’s equally sucky to rely on a giant corporation to teach your kids what strong women look like.  Strong women look like Amelia Earhart, Rosie the Riveter, Asmaa Mahfouz, or Elizabeth Smart.  Or Wonder Woman, or Sally Ride or Sojourner Truth.  Or your grandmother.  Or you."
- Jenny Lawson, "Two Uncomfortable Truths" (via)

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Senior week, May 2011

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
- Anais Nin

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"Our Heavenly Father is aware of our needs and will help us as we call upon him for assistance.  I believe that no concern of ours is too small or insignificant.  The Lord is in the details of our lives."
- Thomas S. Monson

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"I wish I had a three-year-old so I could win every argument."
- Frasier Crane, Frasier 9.03

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"Woman was born to create...In creating she becomes herself, accomplishes her destiny.  Her whole life is only an initiation into creative power.  To create is not merely to produce a work...it is to give out one's own individuality."
-Jeanne De Vietinghoff (via)

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"I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am.  And of course I am 'cause it's about equality, so I hope everyone is.  You know you're working in a patriarchal society when the word feminist has a weird connotation."
- Ellen Page

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"The currency of the Internet is obsession."
- J.J.

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"Too few of us provide options to women who find themselves pregnant when they don’t want to be. Too many of us don’t support teen parents. But when a pregnant teenager enters my office and declares she is ready to be a mother, I believe her. I support her. I know she has the inherent capacity to succeed, because I was once just like her."
- Dr. Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr, "For the mamas who don’t get love on Mother’s Day" (via)

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"Whenever one person stands up and says, 'Wait a minute, this is wrong,' it helps other people to do the same."
- Gloria Steinem

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"Observation: 'May you have many more' is an appropriate thing to write on birthday cards but not on wedding RSVPs."
- J.H.

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"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are."
- Winston Churchill

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"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."
- Audrey Hepburn

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"Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?"
- Lily Tomlin

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"My dissertation defense was my worst experience that hasn't involved someone's death or my own anesthetization."
- T.H.

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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not."
- Thomas Henry Huxley