Friends - thanks

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant old friend of mine, to me along the way. – Anonymous

 

Nothing's gonna change my world...

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. – Marian Wright Edelman

Practice compassion

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – H.H. The Dalai Lama

Try a little tenderness

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution. - Kahlil Gibran

Open Your Heart, Free Your Soul

The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightning and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not. - The Upanishads

On waking after the accident

I was presented with the "whole picture"

as they say, magnificently detailed,

a child's diorama of what life appears to be:

staring at the picture I became drowsy

with relief when I noticed a yellow

dot of light in the lower right-hand corner.
I unhooked the machines and tubes and crawled

to the picture, with an eyeball to the dot

of light which turned out to be a miniature

tunnel at the end of which I could see

mountains and stars whirling and tumbling,

sheets of emotions, vertical rivers, upside

down lakes, herds of unknown mammals, burds

shedding feathers and regrowing them instantly,

snakes with feathered heads eating their own

shed skins, fish swimming straight up,

the bottom of Isaiah's robe, live whales

on dry ground, lions drinking from a golden

bowl of milk, the rush of night,

and somewhere in this the murmur of gods--

a tree-rubbing-tree music, a sweet howl

of water and rock-grating-rock, fire

hissing from fissures, the moon settled

comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll.

-- Jim Harrison, from The Theory and Practice of Rivers

Be your own Truth

Be a lamp unto your self. Be your own confidence.  Hold to the truth within yourself as to the only Truth. - Buddha

The element of trust

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. – George McDonald

Deathly - Aimee Mann

If you have 3 good friends in your lifetime, consider yourself wealthy

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. – Elie Weisel

 
Bill Withers - Lean On Me
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Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you WON’T let show

you just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that YOU’LL understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For ,it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on


YA just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that YOU’LL understand
We all need somebody to lean on

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you just call me
call me (if you need a friend)
call me (call me)
call me (if you need a friend)
call me (if you ever need a friend)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me (if you need A friend)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me (call me)
call me

Y'know, we're all in this together

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. – Audrey Hepburn

 

Bridge Over Troubled Water
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If you crack some eggs, make an omelot

Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves. – Sidney and Suzanne Simon

Know Thyself

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself. – Confucius

I'm so much older than I can take/

I got soul, but I'm not a soldier

Indifference: The Killer of Life

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

– Elie Weisel