A Week of Quotes to Inspire Thought: Day 1

"Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict... She'd have spent the rest of her life on it and died without so much agony, but she was too contrary - she said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody... she said she meant to break herself of it before she died, and that's what she did... Son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your head I'd have made you go read to her. I wanted you to see something about her - I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all 98 pounds of her... She was the bravest person I ever knew." - Atticus to Jem Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

"For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone." - Romans 14:7