Nonwhite Codes Quotes & Sayings

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don't give up. — Gautama Buddha

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends. — Derrick Wolf

It is sadly true that most institutions and nations admire and reward sins of the "spirit," and various forms of arrogance and greed often lead to promotions and praise. But pride, ambition, and vanity are still pride, ambition, and vanity; they do not stop being capital sins because someone is pope or president. "Greed is good" in America, extravagant bonuses are envied and imitated, and careerism is rampant among the clergy ... Sins of the flesh, however, carry shame and guilt and can always be used to bring anybody down in church, culture, or the state. — Richard Rohr

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization. — George H. W. Bush

You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month. — Jerry Moran

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world. — Libba Bray

All this new stuff goes on top
turn it over, turn it over
wait and water down
from the dark bottom
turn it inside out
let it spread through
Sift down even.
Watch it sprout.
A mind like compost. — Gary Snyder

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves — Tom Hodgkinson

It's so hard to get up again - although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you? — L.M. Montgomery

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. — Theodor W. Adorno