Jeremiah Rentoule's Page

Me:
'What is the truth if not the path to a better world?'

'How ''good'' you are relative to others is irrelevant, how ''good''you are relative to how good you can be is everything'

'Because in life, each day, each momment, each second. We make a choice, a choice between many paths we can take, we can choose to be sad about something, or happy, blame others or take responsibility, jealous or joyous. every moment we make the choice on how we want to live our lives and we make the choice to be who we want to be and do what we want to do. Or we don't. That is our choice.'

'All people are good, just most are lost and confused.'

OTHER PEOPLE:

Freedom:
'I am not yet born; O fill me
With strength against those who would freeze my
humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton,
would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with
one face, a thing, and against all those
who would dissipate my entirety, would
blow me like thistledown hither and
thither or hither and thither
like water held in the
hands would spill me.'
Extract from Louis MacNeice - 'Prayer before Birth'

Strength:
'We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. ~
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. '
Extract from Theodore Roosevelt - 'Doctrine of a Strenuous Life'

Resolve:
The only way we can achieve freedom is to somehow conquer the fear of death. But if a man has not discovered something he would die for, he isn't fit to live. And deep down in our non-violent creed is our conviction, there are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they're worth dying for.
And if a man is 36 years old as I happen to be, and some great truth stands before the door of his life, and some great opportunity to stand up for what is right and just, and he refuses to stand up because he wants to live a little longer, and he's afraid his home will get bombed and he's afraid that he will lose his job, and he's afraid to get shot or beat down by state troopers, he may go on and live until he's 80, he's just as dead at 36 as he would be at 80, and the cessation of breathing in his life is merely a belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. He died.
Extract from Martin Luther King Jr. - Salma- Alabama.