Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Just as the soft rains fill the streams, pour into the rivers and join together in the oceans, so may the power of every moment of your goodness flow forth to awaken and heal all beings.
It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.