Quotes

Some of my favorite quotes I’ve come across over the years.

“We all flow from one fountain Soul.  All are expressions of one love.  God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, be He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.”  – John Muir

After reading this sentence, I had to buy a John Muir book because I simply had to know more about a man who could write such a sentence.  How can a person take letters and words and turn it into something so beautiful – it is a stop the world moment for me. 

“Vulnerability is not weakness.  I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty, it fuels are daily lives…vulnerability is are most accurate measurement of courage.” -Brene Brown

“Vulnerability is not weakness, and that myth is profoundly dangerous.” – Brene Brown

“If you put shame in a petri dish it needs three things to grown exponentially secrecy, silence, and judgement.” – Brene Brown

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.” – Brene Brown

…to be vulnerable to let ourselves be seen, to be honest… – Brene Brown

“But it’s time someone spoke up and paid whatever price is asked for the privilege of speaking.” – Peyton Place

Man in the Arena speech – Theodore Roosevelt

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Thoreau

“A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “

“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends…our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have been silent and patient in these last few years expecting the set-up I am living in and with to end on its own and allow me to regain control over my own life – to rejoin the human race once again.  However, I cannot stand aside any longer believing that someone else knows me better than me, knows what I want better than me, or can express my feelings and emotions, thoughts, dreams and desires better than me.  So, I will not keep secret what has happened and is happening to me any longer.