"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain

 “The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and

sunsets smeared with too much color.”

― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

 "Dear ones, some of you are becoming far more relaxed than you were before and with things that used to bother you, things that you had no control of. Some of the fears you used to have are starting to diminish. That's ...evolution of the Human soul."

• Kryon

“The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.” ― Nietzsche

 “At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.”

― Hermann Hesse

                                        

"But truly, the most profound changes are going to come from the most experienced, and that's You." Kryon

 "When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom.  Government should be a referee, not an active player."

••Milton Friedman