“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
“I have decided to stick with love, hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. ”
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
“A lie cannot live.”
“Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.”
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.”
“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’ ”
“Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.”
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
“Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.”
“If you can’t fly, then run. if you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means, keep moving.”
“We may have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
He was a legend – a man who inspired us to dream and be more than we ever thought we could be. He was a Civil Rights Leader, a Christian and a Preacher. According to Wikipedia:
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr., January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
Here is a video I made to honor his memory. You can hear the beginning of his speech in the song too!
Sons and Daughters
by MATT MAHER, JASON INGRAM, IKE NDOLO
How free is anyone, when some are still in chains
Slaves to brokenness, all this blindness
How free is anyone, when all these doubts remain
In the dead of night, no sign of the lightChild don’t grow weary, soon we will see the sun
All my brothers help each other
All my sisters walk together
No one is a stranger
We’re all sons and daughters
Join hands with everyone, don’t you hear the song we sing
Oh there might be tears, but we are more than our fears
We are marching on, but there’s a price we have to pay
For love means taking on, the weight of what was won
Child don’t grow weary, soon we will see the sun
All my brothers help each other
All my sisters walk together
No one is a stranger
We’re all sons and daughters
Help each other
All my sisters walk together
No one is a stranger
We’re all sons and daughters
We shall overcome, we shall overcome
The victory is won, oh we shall overcome
We shall overcome, we shall overcome
The victory is won, oh we shall overcome
All my brothers help each other
All my sisters walk together
No one is a stranger
We’re all sons and daughters
Help each other
All my sisters walk together
No one is a stranger
We’re all sons and daughters
12 Inspiring Quotes for our Brave Soldiers and Fallen Heroes
“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” – Robert F. Kennedy
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”—Joseph Campbell
“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us”. —Winston Churchill
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
” It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” – H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.” —Douglas MacArthur
“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” —Patrick Henry
“Live for something rather than die for nothing.” —George Patton
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.” —George S. Patton Jr
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” – Billy Graham
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”– Douglas MacArthur
Tell us about your first day at something — your first day of school, first day of work, first day living on your own, first day blogging, first day as a parent, whatever.
Photographers, artists, poets: show us BEGINNING.
It All Started With Love…
Yep. Daddy God wanted a family.
He could make something out of nothing – with just a Word.
Yep, that powerful.
And yet, He wanted someone to love, to protect, to cherish, and to be with.
That’s where you and I come in.
See, it starts and ends with Love…
From: blueeyedennis-siempre.blogspot.com
Here are 100 sayings on LOVE:
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ~ Max Muller
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~ Aristotle
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ~ C. S. Lewis
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. ~ George Jean Nathan
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~ Ingrid Bergman
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~ Bruce Lee
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ~ Mother Teresa
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ~ Erich Fromm
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~ Victor Hugo
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. ~ Jim Morrison
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ~ Judy Garland
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ~ Honore de Balzac
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ~ Mother Teresa
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. ~ Brendan Francis
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ~ Richard Bach
Where there is love there is life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ~ Rupert Brooke
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. ~ Orson Welles
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~ Albert Einstein
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action. ~ Mother Teresa
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. ~ Samuel Lover
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ~ Stendhal
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. ~ A. A. Milne
Do all things with love. ~ Og Mandino
All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. ~ Julie Andrews
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. ~ Andre Breton
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. ~ James A. Baldwin
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ~ Audrey Hepburn
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. ~ Joseph Joubert
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. ~ Barbara de Angelis
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~ William Shakespeare
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~ Michel de Montaigne
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ~ Charles Dickens
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. ~ Leo Buscaglia
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. ~ George Eliot
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy. ~ Dwight L. Moody
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. ~ J. D. Salinger
Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. ~ Audrey Hepburn
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. ~ H. L. Mencken
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. ~ Judy Garland
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion. ~ Javan
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If you want to be loved, be lovable. ~ Ovid
A kiss is a rosy dot over the ‘i’ of loving. ~ Cyrano de Bergerac
Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. ~ Rita Rudner
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow. ~ John Lennon
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~ Bertrand Russell
We loved with a love that was more than love. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ~ Lucille Ball
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~ Mother Teresa
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ~ Victor Hugo
All mankind love a lover. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ~ H. L. Mencken
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is the beauty of the soul. ~ Saint Augustine
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~ Robert Frost
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. ~ Henry Miller
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you. ~ Loretta Young
Absence – that common cure of love. ~ Lord Byron
Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~ Eva Gabor
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. ~ Miguel de Unamuno
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Everything is clearer when you’re in love. ~ John Lennon
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~ George Edward Moore
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~ Henry Drummond
Love is being stupid together. ~ Paul Valery
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. ~ Theodore Dreiser
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. ~ Barbara Pym
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ~ Khalil Gibran
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. ~ Carl Sagan
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ~ David Grayson
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~ William Shakespeare
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ~ Helen Keller
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fortune and love favor the brave. ~ Ovid
To say “I love you” one must first be able to say the “I.” ~ Ayn Rand
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ~ George Eliot
It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office. ~ Shirley MacLaine
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ~ Oscar Wilde
