What is your favorite quote and why? *Beware Rant Inside*

Me and my hubby were having Chinese food and my fortune cookie I picked said Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open. It turned out to be my favorite quote-ish growing up and even older we are taught certain things

My parents pushed religion on me, when they didn't go. Yes that can create a bitterness in one so young. If I had questions my parents didn't know what I was talking about. I don't know about you but Catholicism can be scary at some points. I was given a choice to follow other religions when I turned 10 which led me to other churches and learn other religions. Which opened my mind to other peoples believes. I have friends who are Buddhist, Catholic, Rastafarian, Wicca, Jewish, Atheist and oh so many others.

Another is Race- I grew up in a town that had me as a minority. Was I treated any different by these people, no, why because we were all low income families. So we totally got what was going on. Yes the richer kids treated us differently, but other then that. I didn't hate based on race. I had friends of many races, and I loved learning about their lives. I also showed them things. One of my friends I introduced to sour cream for the first time, and she went on a sour cream bender. My favorite thing of course was trying the different food and explained how it was prepared. If I had been closed minded I could have followed after some of the Prejudice views that I was raised around, and because I had an open mind I learned a lot.

One more before I end this one would be the biggest, at least to me, is GLBT. We fight to not allow marriage to the GLBT crowd, we are against them raising children, we think what they are doing is not natural. Why? In this time we should already be opened minded enough to believe that EVERYONE deserves to love who they want to love and live the way they want to live. My cousin came out to me on my 18 birthday. Did I make rude assumptions on this? No. Why I always knew he was a bit different when we were growing up. He wanted to play with my Barbies and I wanted to play with his transformers. I felt honored that he came out to me first to test the waters, what came to follow afterwards created waves. Not everyone in my family agreed with his lifestyle, and still don't. It's sad that they would loose a relationship with someone by turning their back on him. He is the same person, he just likes men. My cousin met the man of his dreams, and married him. They have been married for I want to say 5 yearsish. And for those closed minded people who want to make their legal marriage unlegal, why? People need to open their minds and learn and grow-up. There are so many other problems in the world that need to be worked on.

Another favorite is: A person is a person no matter how small they are.-Dr Seuss. It seems fitting. 

So if you made it this far what is your favorite quote and why?