Patriotism means to stand by the country.
It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.
It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country.
It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.
In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
— Theodore Roosevelt
- Sick Time, Only SickThis is the correct Zen sickness: sick time, only sick. No choice, no checking, not dependent, only sick. Then sick is not sick. This is high-class practice and a high-class education. — Zen Master Seung Sahn in Only Don’t Know
- It’s Time, She’ll SayIt’s Time, she’ll say, False prophet, that seeks flesh and gnaws the bone. — Ekphrasis: Her Expression by Yiannis Doukas, translated by A. E. Stallings
- I Am Too Alone In The World, And Yet Not Alone EnoughOnly someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being. — Rainer Maria Rilke I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that… Read more: I Am Too Alone In The World, And Yet Not Alone Enough
- When You Rise, Kiss The Tombstone Of Your PastWhen you rise, kiss the tombstone of your past and step barefoot into the garden of the future, the garden of infinitely forking paths — Maria Popova from poem How to Change Your Life
- But I Have My LifeBut I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there. — Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don’t. — Veronica Roth, Divergent My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in. —… Read more: But I Have My Life