// vince

"Despite all these atrocities, I want to live." -RutkaLaskier

"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all." -RichardWright

"Reason to mend. Reason to leave behind all that entangled me. It wasn't just about my own pain holding me back anymore, it was injustice to the world to not let go of it. It was impossible to look in her eyes and hold on to those excuses any longer. She was the lowest of the low, the forgotten and unseen. Pain is not about a cast system. It is not about who hurts more or less. The world is broken. As one of the broken I will fight for the others, for those who cannot fight for themselves."-TrishaIvy

"Ever since I was a young lad with a part time dad, it was hard to find happiness inside of what I had. I studied my mother; I digested her pain. And vowed no woman on my path would have to walk the same."-Atmosphere

"Watch me rise with the things we carry: the loss, the scars, the weight of heavy hearts. So I say to the slaves of depression: carry on and sing the sweet redeeming song about living this life free and long. Watch me rise for miles and miles." -HaveHeart

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child a garden patch or redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." -RalphWaldoEmerson

"Unlike the culture of the European Middle Ages, which honored the vocations of the learned teacher, the country parson and the plowman as well as that of the knight...our own culture places an absolute premium upon various kinds of stardom. This degrades and impoverishes ordinary life, ordinary work, and ordinary experience. It depreciates and underpays the work of the primary producers of goods, and of the performers of all kinds of essential but unglamorous jobs and duties. The inevitable practical results are that most work is now poorly done; great cultural and natural resources are neglected, wasted, or abused; the land and its creatures are destroyed; and the citizenry is poorly taught, poorly governed, and poorly served." -WendellBerry