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“If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.”

—Anita Roddick, the founder of the Body Shop, who died Monday at age 64 of a brain hemorrhage.

Roddick worked to support myriad causes, from debt relief for developing countries to ending the testing of cosmetics on animals to preserving rain forests, as well as campaigning against sexism in advertising. More Roddick quotes are here.

from Salon.com

“Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.”

- Mark Twain

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
- David Starr Jordan

got quite a chuckle if not exactly a cackle from it…and so wise too…

“It’s one thing to cackle and another to lay an egg.”
- Ecuadorian proverb

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
—Aeschylus

_{—recognized perhaps because it was quoted by Robert Kennedy during a eulogy to Martin Luther King, Jr.}

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
—Erich Fromm

The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.—Carl Gustav Jung

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair—Chinese Proverb

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.—Henry Louis Mencken

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun
Or fester like a sore—

And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—

Like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Make love when you can. It’s good for you.

I believe in aristocracy, though—if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power…but…of the sensitive, the considerate…. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos. Thousands of them perish in obscurity, a few are great names. They are sensitive for others as well as themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure…

“When I was young, I admired clever people. As I grew old, I came to admire kind people.”
- Abraham Joshua Heschel