A fresh start everyday...

Many of you loyal newsletter readers have been asking where I get the inspiration for all the wonderful quotes that appear on each months newsletters. A lot of my inspiration and push for further research comes from a wonderful daily email I signed up for about a year ago called "Daily Inpirational Quotes and Thought of the Day" from this wonderful website. Everyday (and don't worry, it is literally once a day, you will not be flooded with multiple emails filling up your inbox) an inspirational quote is sent with a matching picture to enlighten and invigorate you. The quotes range accross a very wide spectrum of authors and are sure to make you think. Some of my recent favorites include:

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone 

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenheim 

Thank you  Jonathan Lockwood Huie for the daily inspiration. Everyone feel free to check out his website and make sure you sign up for his daily email!

My "issues" with urging civil rights

 "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

-Albert Einstein

Mull it over. Do these inspiring quotes mean anything to you? They do to me. Are these things implemented into your life or are they simply words you read? Are your ethics based on what your heart tells you, or are they based on an outside source like religion? Religion is not a bad thing, but it can become a dangerous thing if people believe that religion makes a person ethical or moral. Fear or punishment and the hope for a reward is something we are taught as kids by our parents when they want us to clean our rooms, "Tommy, go clean your room or else you are grounded. If you do a good job and keep it clean, I will buy you that new video game you wanted!" Come on folks, I think it is time we grow up.

The second quote I have to give a little thanks to Leilani Munter  for her work in The Cove. She posted this quote on one of her videos regarding the slaughter. Evil things are going on across the world right now. People are starving, being beaten, wrongfully accused, mislabeled, stripped of civil rights, murdering, and so on, yet some of us simply sit in front of the television and watch it all unfold. Do something. You do not have to go and personally stop a murder, but show you care, get educated, spread the word, start a blog, do something. I have recently been persecuted for "having an issue with protesting for gay (civil) rights." Nothing will stop me from being me. No one will make me lie down and take all the in justices in the world. Silence shows that you have either given up, or that you do not care. I care.