"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."
-William Hazlitt
"Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine... we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are- as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy"
- Bo Lozoff (A quote from a questionable person, but still a good quote I believe.)
"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want".
- Lao-tzu
(This one may sound a little new-agey, but that's not my meaning. The point is that we often have the wisdom and resources we need to answer our questions, solve our problems, but we are too often afraid to realize this and we instead spend so much energy trying to find an outside answer. I believe we were created with everything we need- intelligence, compassion, the ability to have relationships, etc., and that we should stop being apathetic and use the power we have to do good in whatever ways we can. More on this later.)
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are"
- Theodore Roosevelt.
"...the trouble is, we don't know who we are instead"
- Jars of Clay, Trouble Is
Who we are, what we are... life is about discovering, learning, changing, and being these things. The word "are" represents these ideas.
I enjoyed this. I was curious about the title. I actually just wrote a blog about the title of my blog. :) The names of things and why they were so named, are important.
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