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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. – Victor Hugo
You cannot love everyone; It is ridiculous to think you can. - Anton Szander Lavey
We carry our past with us, not as a burden, but as a guiding force until we face the end.” – Chloe M. Sampson
I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed. - O.J. Simpson
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back. - Horace
“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. – Chuck Palahniuk
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone
The hour is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. - Jesus
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
Khalil Gibran
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. - Don Marquis
“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”
― Anaïs Nin
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? - Saint Augustine
“Attacking people with disabilities is the lowest display of power I can think of.”– Morgan Freeman
The pot calling the kettle black. - rumored to be Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote
“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. - Saul Bellow
I'm just what I am, that's all. The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell. - Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” — Judy Garland
“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
― Anthony Bourdain
"The grass is always greener over the septic tank" - Erma Bombeck
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. - Epicurus
“The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! – Hunter S. Thompson (The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967)
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." – Mark Twain
"Sometimes death is natural, a mercy that puts an end to suffering" - Stephen King
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race. - Edward Thorndike
“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
― Roy T. Bennett
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
Eric Hoffer
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic. - Wallace Stevens
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Darkness is where the magic of moonlight lives.” — unknown
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. - Jules Renard
"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner" by Lao Tzu.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. - Khalil Gibran
“Want to feel free and alive? Go to the forest and dance in the moonlight.” — unknown
“I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good
night.”
― Charles Bukowski
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. - R. Buckminster Fuller
"Unbalanced power is the ebbing away of life. Unbalanced mercy is but weakness and the fading out of the will. Unbalanced severity is cruelty and the barrenness of mind". - Israel Regardie
“When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – William Shakespeare
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
“Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.” – Hugh Hefner
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
- Jonathan Kozol
“The world needs the kind of technology that lifts human condition, yet what we mostly have today is technology that elevates human comfort and degrades human condition.”
― Abhijit Naskar
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James A. Baldwin
“I automatically assume people won't like me, so I don't talk to them unless they approach me first. I can't become a part of a crowd because I can't get past that feeling that I don't belong.”
― Stephanie Kuehnert
Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious. - Dario Argento
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
Corazon Aquino
“Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.”― Nicole Sobon
Yes! So true!
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
Or ghost them. That's what I've seen lately 🙄
We all have our individual romantic or idealistic ideas. To get information that masturbation is our basic form of sex is hard, because who wants to admit they're masturbating?
Betty Dodson
I will admit to that.
If you tell somebody enough, "You're stupid, you're not worth it, you can't do this, you can't do that," then how many times do you have to hear that before you believe it? The power of words is immeasurable.
Christi Paul
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. - Leo Tolstoy
Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question. - Neale Donald Walsch
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius Caesar
"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given right." - Charlie Kirk
how ironic
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift…. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11. — Bill Frist
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold
"I don't want to die without any scars."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
And then, on September 11, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow--the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction. - Barack Obama
"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
Ernest Hemingway
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? - Henry David Thoreau
“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”
― St. Catherine of Siena
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner." – Corrie Ten Boom
It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us. - Tupac Shakur