To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and read more

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people read more

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms read more

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of read more

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.