“A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.”

“Love, you know, is a funny thing; But the funniest thing about it - Is you never can tell if it is love - Until you start to doubt it”

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

another contribution by Brooke

Flowers
by H. Barnes
It may not be the same,
But some things never change.
I feel it and I trust it,
I still believe in forever
Because that's what my heart knows.

Memories are the dew drops on our petals
That re-open the buds that have closed.
Flowers wilt as seasons change,
Though they grow a little more with rain.

The sun will shine when in need,
And left behind, a precious seed.

I think I have grown into the person I was always going to be. To say that you did not have a big part in that would be a lie. I think that you taught me a lot about loving someone without conditions...quite a concept. In that I learned to love myself. You helped me see that I was worth loving. I spent a lot of time trying to figure you out....then I just realized that I know you and I trust that...you are absolute.

Inspirations are like an image ,but dreams are like an obligation in the mind which overwhelms the mind.

“Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it

Random Quote I found online .... quite nice

“You've changed so much. I guess that's what happens. I wish you knew how much you changed me. I wonder if I changed you, if your life isdifferent because of me. Because mine's different. My God, you taught me so much, and now we don't even talk to each other. I guess that's what happens.”

“Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.”

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die; Life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes

Thanks my dear Brooke for the submission!