Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things,but just look what they can do when they stick together.-- Vista M. Kelly.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
''Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth.'' Roberto Clemente
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. Joan Baez
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe. - Winston Churchill
"Victims have discovered that they are treated as appendages of a system appallingly out of balance. They have learned that somewhere along the way, the system has lost tract of the simple truth that it is supposed to be fair and to protect those who obey the law while punishing those who break it. Somewhere along the way, the system began to serve lawyers and judges and defendants, treating the victim with institutionalized disinterest." President Reagan's Task Force on Victims of Crime, December, 1982.
"When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."
Theodore Roosevelt
"You can shed tears that she is gone, or smile because she lived. You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back, or you can open your eyes and see all she left. Your heart can be empty because you can't see her, or can be full of the love you shared...."
David Harkins
"I believe in angels - that they're always hovering near, whispering encouragement whenever clouds appear, protecting us from danger and showing us the way. Performing little miracles within our lives each day." - Anonymous
What I am looking for is not out there; it is in me. ~ Helen Keller
The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal. ~Astrid Alauda
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone. Joyce Rupp
If you pretend you have no anger and try to bury it, it can bury you.-- Neil Clark Warren
Dreams are for people who wish hard. Goals are for people who work hard. Take your dream and make it your goal. Never give in. Never give up. Never sell out. unknown
If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I'd walk forever in a garden.
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit: for, without being seen, they are present with you. St. Francis de Sales
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
-- Harvey Fierstein
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
- Lydia Maria Child 1861 -
"So long as we live, they too shall live and love for they are a part of us as we remember them." - Gates of Prayer
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
Margaret Thatcher
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
When you lose your parents you become an orphan. When you lose your spouse/mate, you become a widow or widower. When you lose a Sibling, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin, Niece, Nephew or Friend you will miss them and may become lonley....But When You Loss A Child You Become NOTHING....Shawnee's Mom
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. Robert F. Kennedy
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein
"All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."
Saint Francis of Assisi
"When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know" Unknown
A right delayed is a right denied. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Float like a buttery fly and sting like a bee".
Muhammad Ali
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. Rose Kennedy
Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. Eileen Elias Freeman
I'm holding on to something that used to be there, hoping it will come back, knowing it won't. AUTHOR~UNKNOWN
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell~ ~EMILY DICKINSON
“They want you to keep your mouth shut. If you keep quiet, they’ll get away with murder. Speak Up!
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do." Edward Everett Hale
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow, Don't walk behind me, I may not lead, Just walk aside of me and be my friend. Albert Camus
"Paperwork we received from the State of PA, we apparently are not considered victims, but "Survivors of Homicide" Feels like being victimized to me."
Separation does not mean separation of souls; Our relationships do not die; they just change form." Unknown
Where there is love, there is pain~ AUTHOR~UNKNOWN
Weep not for those that have gone on to be with the Lord, but rather weep for those left behind that are lost and undone. AUTHOR~UNKNOWN
“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways-either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.” Dalai Lama
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ~AUTHOR~HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
"I will bring change to the world and the beautiful people who dwell among it."
"Be not overcome with evil, for evil will be overcome with good." Rev. R. W. Brown
The day I feared as my last, I now know is just the beginning of eternity. For there is no death, only a changing of worlds. So weep not for me, for I now rest in the radiant light of heaven in true peace, and happiness. ~AUTHOR~UNKNOWN
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another ~Proverbs 27:19
Some angels choose cleverly disguised lives in time and space just to help folks get past judging by appearances~No~they're not much to look at~listen to~or dance with and most would never guess they're angels~but that's the point~Every soul is beautiful. Author ~ Unknown
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us ~ what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. AUTHOR~ALBERT PIKE
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. ~AUTHOR DR.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
It isn't for the moment we are struck that we need courage ~ but for the long uphill climb back to faith ~ sanity and security. AUTHOR~ANNE MORROW LINDBERG
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose ~ all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. AUTHOR~HELEN KELLER
“The biggest sin is sitting on your ass” Rose Kennedy
Perhaps they are not stars ~ but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. ~AUTHOR~UNKNOWN
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Martin Luther King Jr.
Never take someone for granted ~ Hold every person close to your heart ~ Because you might wake up one day and realize that you've lost a diamond ~ while you were too busy collecting stones. AUTHOR ~ UNKNOWN
“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.” Daniel Webster
May you sit with God and frolic with the angels until we meet again. ~AUTHOR~SHAWNEE'S FATHER~DON
"The world is a dangerous place, not only because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing". Albert Einstein
“If you want peace, work for justice.”
Henry Louis Mencken
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King Jr.
LIFE~LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS ~ These are the rights listed in the Declaration Of Independance for each and every American Citizen ~ EXCEPT if you are murdered ~ You no longer have any rights ~ someone decided to take them away from you ~ Now the MURDERERS RIGHTS are protected. AUTHOR~TINA STIEF
Unsolved murders haunt not only those directly involved with the deceased, they haunt entire communities. Somewhere among us walks a person with the derangement to take a life and the cunning to hide his or her sins. ~AUTHOR~UNKNOWN
I dropped a single tear in the ocean ~ when you find it ~ that's when I will stop missing you. ~AUTHOR~UNKNOWN
Holding on to anger... is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; You are the one getting burned. " Budda
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. Rose Kennedy
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr.
Courts do not render justice. Courts render judgement. Only God can render Justice.
Phillip A Putman
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
If you think you're too small to make an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
- Anita Roddick (1942 - 2007)
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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All of us at YOT wouldn't wish what happened to our loved ones, on anyone.. It is a living nightmare. Don't ever feel immune to violence, because it can happen to anyone, at anytime at anyplace.
Henry Louis Mencken