21st Century Courage

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

- James Baldwin

"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."

-J.R.R. Tolkien

Fire

Remember what you must do when they undervalue you, when they think

your softness is your weakness, when they treat your kindness like it is their advantage.

You awaken every dragon, every wolf, every monster

that sleeps inside you and you remind them what hell looks like when it wears the skin of a gentle human.

Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of

"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way." - Thich Nhat Hahn

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” - Nelson Mandela

“I have always been interested in writing about happiness, in large part because it's extremely difficult to do. The French writer Henry de Montherlant famously said, "Le bonheur écrit à l'encre blanche sur des pages blanches." Happiness writes in white ink on white pages. In other words, you can't make it appear on the page. It's invisible. It doe