Whenever you take a step forward,
you are bound to disturb something.
You disturb the air as you go forward,
you disturb the dust, the ground.
You trample upon things.
When a whole society moves forward,
this trampling is on a much bigger scale;
and each thing that you disturb,
each vested interest which you want to remove,
stands as an obstacle.

- Mahatma Gandhi

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present."

- Marianne Williamson

Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others...
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

- Walt Whitman

"Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow--it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it."

- Shakti Gawain

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"...God said, "I did do something. I made you."

- Sufi Teaching

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."

- Woodrow Wilson

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.

- Karen Ravn

No act ofkindness, however small, is ever wasted.

- Aesop

There'll be two dates on your tombstone
And all your friends will read 'em
But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em..."

- Kevin Welch

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure."

- Emilio James Trujillo

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

- Storm Jameson

Age: 13

Sex: Female

Profession: Uh... does 7th grade count?

Country: United States of America (and proud of it, babe)

State: NONDISCLOSED

City: CLASSIFIED

Favorite fics to read: I like Harry Potter, Pokémon, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica, Book crossovers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Smallville, and Movie crossovers.