As you age it is not the wealth, nor power, but love and peace that sustain you.
One who has yet to fail has yet to take a worthy challenge.
Crying. What a shame some don’t cry! Crying is most associated with cowardice. It is purity that brings tears.
Unifiers like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mandela unite people and leave a more harmonious world behind than the one they inherited. Polarizers, like Hitler, are apt to leave fractured humanity as their devisive legacy.
Standing upright in all adversities? Wouldn’t one drown in the river, for instance?
It’s human to fear isolation for your convictions. But remember that every so often a single Galileo or Darwin had truth on the whole planet.
When a completely disabled Stephen Hawking questions the concept of god one cannot fail to admire his belief in atheism!
If you are not alone, at least for some time everyday, you are not your self.
Those who criticize you acknowledge that you are too important for them to ignore you. Empathize, rather than hate them!
Truth is a statement that is not made up of any lies. Sadly most religious sermons are composed of finely said lies or half truths.