#sent

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#ashamed #because #had #i #i am

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of authoritarianism as unpatriotic or uncaring. Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. Understanding the magnificent rewards of a free society makes us unbashful in its promotion, fully realizing that maximum wealth is created and the greatest chance for peace comes from a society respectful of individual liberty. ↗

— Ron Paul

#dissent #freedom #liberty #nonconformity #patriotism

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. ↗

— John Williams

#between #competition #cooperation #countries #healthy

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God. ↗

— Roger Williams

#antichrist #convert #did #ever #forth

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#exists #god #meets #only #only time

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. ↗

— William John Wills

#characteristics #consider #found #generally #higher

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#consent #governed #law #mankind #opinion

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#being #children #class #color #delightful

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season? ↗

— Magenta Periwinkle

#coming-of-age #cutting #cutting-class #first-love #geeks

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked. ↗

— Amy Smart

#best #enjoying #getting #gift #heads