http://velvetygrace.blogsome.com Inside Grace Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:24:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. - Mark Twain http://velvetygrace.blogsome.com/2008/03/04/the-right-word/ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) http://velvetygrace.blogsome.com/2006/10/08/suffering/ Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength….. -Virginia Wolff http://velvetygrace.blogsome.com/2006/09/24/life-strugglessexes/ If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. -Noam Chomsky http://velvetygrace.blogsome.com/2006/09/04/freedom-of-expression/ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world. Indeed, it is is the only thing that ever has. -Margeret Mead http://velvetygrace.blogsome.com/2006/08/27/small-groups/ 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. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into ... http://velvetygrace.blogsome.com/2006/08/27/evil-must-be-broken/ A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. –Maya Angelou http://velvetygrace.blogsome.com/2006/07/09/singing/ We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. -Eleanor Roosevelt http://velvetygrace.blogsome.com/2006/07/09/strength/ And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. –Anais Nin http://velvetygrace.blogsome.com/2006/07/09/risk/ Carbon Footprint Calculator http://velvetygrace.blogsome.com/2006/07/02/your-carbon-footprint/