The Politics of Life

Sargent Shriver once expressed his political philosophy in a speech to a Peace Corps audience:

"The politics of death is bureaucracy, routine, rules, status quo. The politics of life is personal initiative, creativity, flair, dash, a little daring. The politics of death is calculation, prudence, measured gestures. The politics of life is experience, spontaneity, grace, directness. The politics of death is fear of youth. The politics of life is to trust the young to their own experiences."

More Bruce

"You see Bruce, triumph is born out of struggle. Faith is the alchemist."

Selfishness

"..that ... sensitiveness was truly but selfishness."

- Dick Elliot, pastor, Connecticut, excerpted from Crab's Hole: A Family Story of Tangier Island

Alone

"Because no matter how hard one man tries to reach out to another, there's a chasm that can't be crossed. A wall of solitude that can't be penetrated."

- Batman (Bruce Wayne) from the graphic novel, Spider-Man and Batman, by J.M. DeMatteis (writer)

Great Friends

"With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?"

- from Night Court

Arthur's Prayer

"May God grant us the wisdom to discover the right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure. Amen."

- King Arthur's prayer at the Round Table, from the movie, First Knight

Love Lost

"A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing. And if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?"

- King Arthur to Lancelot, the movie, First Knight

Camelot's Heart

King Arthur's response to Lancelot's asking about the inscription on the Round Table, "In Serving Each Other, We Become Free."

"That is the very heart of Camelot."
"Because it lives in us. It is a belief that we hold in our heart."

- from the movie, First Knight

Life's Journey

"The one thing wonderful about all the things that happened in the past is that they brought us to the exact moment now, right here, from where everything starts fresh and anew."

- from Touched by an Angel

Hurt

"Why does life hurt so much, Cai?" she asked suddenly, despairingly.

"It always hurts for those who feel deeply," he replied. "It is the price we must pay."

"It would be nice sometimes not to care."

"Easier, certainly. But would it really be worth it?"

- Queen Gwenhwykar to Cai, from The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf

Ordinary

"For something to become ordinary, it must be taken for granted."

- David Matza, Becoming Deviant

Love Aches

" To stay means to lose the love of another possible lover. To leave means to lose the love of the possible lover."

- Julie Andrews, from the movie, The Man Who Loved Women

Consciousness

"A clever thing, this consciousness; it knows how to conceive. It brings things into being by just picturing them, and uses everything around it from which to draw pictures - including itself growing up. In consequence, mind grows up even more."

- David Matza, Becoming Deviant

The Ache

I remember crying - with all my heart and soul. Crying out in pain for Mom and Dad. They wanted so much for all to right for us kids, and I know that it hurt them deeply not to be able to provide us with all that the other kids had. I ached to my innermost core, praying to God to make everything better.

CA

Silent screams

Lead to

Broken dreams

As falling rain

Flows over

Purple plains