from the book: living sanely in an insane world

Quotes:

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for." -Joseph Addison

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." -Winston Churchill

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the Sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground." -Zora Neale Hurston

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."
-Booker T. Washington

"Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty." -Jefferson Davis

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." -George Eliot

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Mohandas Karamchan Gandhi

never surrender

for those of us who are still fighting to help right the wrongs of our greedy governments, i submit this website where you can take the pledge to Never Surrender. so much depends on our staying strong and focused, no matter how many times our hopes are slammed to the ground.

www.neversurrender.org

signing petitions

i have been keeping up on my virtual activism by going to this site: www.thepetitionsite.com
it has made me aware of some more issues, and once you have filled in your info, if you go back to sign another petition, you don't have to retype anything. it is all pre-filled. and you can send that particular action item to friends, or even the whole site.

not sure how much good it really does, but if the powers that be see that we are more and more aware, i think they will get the message that we are not going to lie down and be rolled over by their idiotic policies anymore. we are the sleeping giant. (china really is, but it is waking up) and we need to wake up. commercialism keeps up occupied and sleepy so we won't take note and become apalled at the atrocities and unethical things that are happening. let's wake up and make our voices heard!