The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. - - Abraham Lincoln
... and in rising to this new occasion:
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world... Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong. - - Anne Frank
right, exactly - so obviously! ...
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Oh gosh, how I so greatly fear change. What to do, what to do?
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I guess, in fearing changing I attempt being funny... ha.In all seriousness, though...
If the man who survived four terms as President of America, during the Great Depression... AND World War II... AND suffered from polio (now thought to be Guillain-Barre syndrome)... AND paralysis for the waist down... AND managed to hardly ever be seen in a wheelchair can utter such a statement, why can't I?
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