If you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."

-― Katharine Hepburn

I will rise up and break the backbone of your power and place it in the hands of a nation that doesn’t even know my name.

Don’t let anyone make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force, to be a sort of policeman to the whole world. I can hear God saying to America “You are too arrogant. And if you don’t change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power and place it in the hands of a nation that doesn’t even know my name.”

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

...to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

-― Ralph Waldo Emerson

They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

I hate it when they say, "He gave his life for his country." Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don't die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

-- Admiral Gene La Rocque

When the deepest pain in you becomes something that helps you to know yourself, your truth, your boundaries, creativity, wisdom, and dreams ~ then...

"When the deepest pain in you becomes something that helps you to know yourself, your truth, your boundaries, creativity, wisdom, and dreams ~ then that pain can become your greatest friend and teacher so that when it shows up it reminds you of who you are, rather than who you are not. It can either take you further away into seeking an external solution because you judge it or feel like a victim to it or it can take you into an internal one because you are giving yourself the gift of your awareness which can transform anything."

-- The Return of the Divine Feminine

He who votes decides nothing; he who counts the votes decides everything.

"He who votes decides nothing; he who counts the votes decides everything."

-- Joseph Stalin

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"
— Dr. Seuss

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."

-- Martin Luther King Jr.