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To say what you feel is to dig your own grave. - Sinead O'Connor (RIP)
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu
When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly. - Sinéad O'Connor
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” – Joshua Graham.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
“Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.”
― Lauren Oliver
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. - Vernon Howard
The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. -Wole Soyinka
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. - Jean Baudrillard
We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. -Marcel Proust
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. - Christopher Morley
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. -Robert A. Heinlein
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau
"My sexuality is only a thread of the tapestry of my life." Tab Hunter
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. -Julie Burchill
You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. - Eliot Ness
“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”
― Shannon L. Alder
Justice is merely incidental to law and order. - J. Edgar Hoover
Shadow owes its birth to light. -John Gay, poet and dramatist (30 Jun 1685-1732)
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.”
― William Shakespeare
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. - A. R. Ammons
“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form. - Edgar Mitchell
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
“I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson