Words to live by

"Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."


--Martin Luther King, Jr., from www.brainyquote.com

"At two of these parties, I spent the entire time thinking about how much I hated everyone on earth and wondering what kind of nightmarish roommates one gets in heaven if one thinks such ugly thoughts...But at the third of these parties, with a good friend on either side, I realized once again, that there is only one person any of us really hates."

Anne Lamott