Victory Is Sweetest When Least Expected.

(What a victory! No one in the country believes we could achieve such a victory. Yet each of us on the brink of desperation cast our vote not expecting much, just doing what we have to and hoping for a miracle. We did not expect millions of our fellow countrymen to have that precise sentiment. This is a defining moment in our country's history. At last, there is hope.)

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is easy to fight when one is assure of victory. I salute the underdog who fights with every bit of its strength staring in the face of defeat.

- Ghostwise

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero


We lost our fangs when we treasure our safety more than our freedom.

- Ghostwise

Two Men Looking Out Through The Same Bars.

(Someone told me today "You just don't see it, do you?" And I wonder if it is me or him who didn't see.)

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.

- Rev. Frederick Langbridge

I look through the bars: And sees freedom on the other side.

-Ghostwise

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We see things not as they are but as we are.

- John Milton

How to change us so we can see better.

- Ghostwise

The Freedom That Angels Enjoy,

(Tonight, I search for the third Angel to take out to sea.)

Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

- Fanny J. Crosby


I wait for the angels from above,
And miss the ones already below.

- Ghostwise

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If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.

- Richard Lovelace


The liberty the Angels enjoy,
Was it in their freedom or in their love?

- Ghostwise

How To Attain Peace In the Storm?

(This is the scene of the storm from my office window just as I was about to leave this evening. The storm reflects my mood today and the hectic situations this week. Had a bad day in a bad week.)

“The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson


I pray that the storm will soon pass. Am I wise or am I not?

- Ghostwise

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“Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm”

- Author Unknown


If the storm reflects the turmoil in my heart, it is beautiful.
If the storm contrasts the serenity in my heart, it is also beautiful.

- Ghostwise

Freedom From Guilt.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

-Lillian Hellman


So must we fought, not only for our own but others' freedom as well.

-Ghostwise

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"Freedom from fear could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

- Dag Hammerskjoldd


The first thing a tyrant will deny.

-Ghostwise

Freedom!

“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Ghost's order are - freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom to believe and freedom to express but all these are supersede by freedom of choice.

- Ghostwise

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"No man is free who is not master of himself."

- Epictetus (AD 55?-135?), Greek Stoic philosopher


No man is free who is not free to choose.

- Ghostwise