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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? - Henry David Thoreau

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed. - Mahatma Gandhi

“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”

Abraham Lincoln

People hate as they love, unreasonably. - William Makepeace Thackeray

There is nothing like you, there was nothing like you, and there shall be nothing like you. - Yogi

Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.
Jack Parsons

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Frank Zappa

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. - Aldous Huxley

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.-Rumi

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed. - Mahatma Gandhi

"In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that's so lame."

Billie Eilish

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. - Rene Descartes

"Ease your storm" Io in Clash of the Titans

I love that direct line, can be applied to many things.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. - George Washington

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. - Robert Green Ingersoll

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know the man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you’ll get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man…All I claim to know is that laughter is the most reliable gauge of human nature. — Feodor Dostoyevsky

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”― Lewis Carroll

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. - Aeschylus

“It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands."

Nigel Slater

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. - Albert Camus

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."

Emily Dickinson

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. - Socrates

“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” – Ella Woodword

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. - Aesop

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
― Lord Byron

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. - Henry Ward Beecher

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”-Paulo Coelho

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. - Alexis de Tocqueville

“Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can’t survive… it’s the thing that makes you better than you used to be.” ― Jennifer Weiner

"A riot is the language of the unheard" - Martin Luther King

“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”
― Gena Showalter, Seduce the Darkness

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. - Aesop

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Hermann Goering

“It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

No public man can be just a little crooked. - Herbert Hoover

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.”
― Shannon L. Alder

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. - Winston Churchill

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
Juliette Lewis

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. - Marcus Aurelius

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. - Aeschylus

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Revolution is not a one-time event." ~ Audre Lorde

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”

– Albert Einstein

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. - Plato

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."

Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones (The Sandman, #9)

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. - Henry Kissinger

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

“It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.”— George Lorimer

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. - Adlai Stevenson I

“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

"Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions are searched for." ~ Maya Angelou

All movements go too far. - Bertrand Russell

“We hide in plain sight, and it works. Majestically. Everyone else can fuck the fuck off.”
― Eric Stephenson

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. - Aesop

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” – Socrates

At ev'ry word a reputation dies. - Alexander Pope

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. - Aldous Huxley

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. - Winston Churchill

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
Anne Frank

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Kurt Cobain

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones

The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven/Upon the place beneath - William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

Compassion is a fountain of forgiveness. by Yogi

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. - Walt Whitman

"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect."

JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. - Harper Lee (from her novel 'Go Set a Watchman')

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Philip Stanhope

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dislike you. I could start my own religion based on how much I dislike you.”
― G.A. Aiken, What a Dragon Should Know

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” – Isabelle Lafleche

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. - Henry David Thoreau

"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."

Laurie Halse Anderson

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn

“People should find happiness in the little things, like family.”
– Amanda Bynes

“Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative” – Aristotle

Ignorance is not innocence but sin. - Robert Browning

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." -Margaret Mead

I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

Ed Westwick

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. - Dale Carnegie

"To hurt is as human as to breathe."
J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." ~Henry Ford