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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. - Henry David Thoreau
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. - J. K. Rowling
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” — Cavett Robert
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. - Herman Melville
“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
― Steve Maraboli
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. - Albert Camus
“The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.” – Carl Jung
"The parries and jabs, the turns of phrase. That's where a case is won. Not by settling like a pussy". - F. Lee Bailey
“People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”
― Dan Pearce
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. - Stanley Baldwin
“Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen
“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
― Brandon Sanderson
It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat. - Arnold Schwarzeneggar
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. - Bruce Lee
“Reincarnation is the putrefaction of the soul.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Crossbones
“Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!”
― Fernando Pessoa
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us. - Wendell Berry
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living. Hulk Hogan
"The vampire is that glittering, dazzling rule-breaker and outsider who has gained ascendancy over time and place." - Anne Rice
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world" by Mahatma Gandh
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C. S. Lewis
"A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.” - Oliver North
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. -Paul Dirac
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness. - Roger Penrose