We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. - Aesop
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein
“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
No public man can be just a little crooked. - Herbert Hoover
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. - Albert Schweitzer
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. - Bertolt Brecht
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. - Napoleon Bonapart
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.-C.G Jung
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. - Herodotus
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. - Socrates
“And, in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.” - Paul McCartney
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind. - Napoleon Hill
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. - Mark Twain
You must have self-respect; only then can you respect somebody.
No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems. - Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. - Rudolf Otto
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperament? - Aeschylus
"I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind."
Charlotte Eriksson
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. - H. G. Wells
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence - Confucius
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? - Ernest Hemingway
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." -Mark Twain
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. - Benjamin Franklin
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. - Miguel de Cervantes
“Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” - John Lennon
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. - Nelson Mandela
America, where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know, we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster
John Kay of Steppenwolf
You must have self-respect; only then can you respect somebody.
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead. - Alexander Pope
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. - Abraham Lincoln
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time." Banksy
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. - Wayne Dyer
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
Bob Marley