Martin Luther King, Jr and Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love these 2 gentlemen. They were able to share pieces of life wisdom so straight to the point via simple quotations.

Martin Luther King, Jr said:

"Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection."

Lukewarm denotes greater and more personal rejection. It tells you that you are not even worth the effort of having the direct rejection.

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Silence of our friends hurt because we grow to expect when in actual fact we maybe should not be. Ironically, the closer we get to friends, we expect more and deeper commitments forgetting different people have different commitment levels at different phrase. Yet, not expecting seems to be imply the inability to develop deeper relationships.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

This silence is about feeling different.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said:

"Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. "

What can I say? The quotation said it all.