"The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement."

-- Aristotle

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“Fear comes knocking with a thought. Faith answers with a word ... God's Word.”
“I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.”
“If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.”
“A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution. [Legalizing "same-sex marriage"] is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture.”

Source : "How We Got to the Supreme Court" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.
“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”
“Youâ€™re too important to just â€¦ die.â€ He shakes his head. He wonâ€™t even look at meâ€”his eyes keep shifting across my face, to the wall behind me or the ceiling above me, to everything but me. I am too stunned to be angry. â€œIâ€™m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,â€ I say. â€œWho cares about everyone? What about me?”
“Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.”
“Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.”

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