Dare Mighty Things -

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"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt, a New Yorker (^_^), 1899

Regret -

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

DALAI LAMA on Compassion -

"As issue is we have to work, action is more important than meditation. However, on individual level meditation on compassion is very, very helpful to keep one's own peace of mind. Then the issue itself, of course, will not solve through prayer, through meditation on compassion, it will not solve. We have to act, we have to work."

- Dalai Lama on Dan Rather Reports

Poor Animals -

"Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies... that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself."

- T. Casey Brennan (on animal slaughter)

Albert Einstein on being a vegetarian -

"It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."

- Albert Einstein

how do you measure a community?

"The true measure of a community lies in how it treats the most helpless among us, our children and our animals. To the degree that another living being depends on us for its well being, we are diminished as "human" if we don't in some way humanely respond." (Joan Antczak)