William B Travis Alamo Quotes & Sayings

To draw for a moment from an entirely different corner of my life, that part of me still attached to the biological sciences, there is ample evidence that animals - rats and monkeys, for example - that are forced into a subordinate status within their social systems adapt their brain chemistry accordingly, becoming 'depressed' in humanlike ways. Their behavior is anxious and withdrawn; the level of serotonin (the neurotransmitter boosted by some antidepressants) declines in their brains. And - what is especially relevant here - they avoid fighting even in self-defense ... My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers - the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being 'reamed out' by managers - are part of what keeps wages low. If you're made to feel unworthy enough, you may come to think that what you're paid is what you are actually worth. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. — William James

NEW HAIKU
One breathy vowel
mists the glass warming window
panes crystalled with snow
Robin Glasser — Robin Glasser

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another — Jack Kornfield

If our lives are out of tune with the music of the gospel, we must tune them up. — Wilford W. Andersen

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. — Horace Mann

I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true. — Derek Sivers

Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of factory bells, and a fragrance filling the air
to a higher life than we fell asleep from; and thus the darkness bear its fruit, and prove itself to be good, no less than the light. — Henry David Thoreau