“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” – ~Chief Tecumseh
“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.” ~Chief Tecumseh
“When your time comes to die, be NOT like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and DIE LIKE A HERO GOING HOME!” ~Chief Tecumseh
- He is the true God to us men; that is, to miserable and sinful creatures; He is the centre of all and the object of all. He who knows not Him knows nothing either in the order of the world or in himself. For not only do we know nothing of God but by Jesus Christ, but we know nothing of ourselves also, but by Jesus Christ alone. ~Blaise Pascal (1623-1661)
- “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” ~George Orwell, 1984
- “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” ~George Orwell, 1984
- “We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of it, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.” ~Marilynne Robinson
- “If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.” ~Wanda Sykes
- “Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.” ~Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
- “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible’!” ~Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)