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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. - Bertrand Russell
“I miss you. A little too much, a little too often, and a little more every day.” – John Michael Montgomery
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”― Albert Einstein
I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow.
Joe Mahoney
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I’d place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. - Horace Walpole
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t. – Jules Renard
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill
" faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase"
Martin Luther King Jr
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. - Martin Heidegger
“If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.”
― Jules Renard
It’s easier to fool people then to convince people that they have been fooled. – Mark Twain
"Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are. - Andrea Dworkin
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. – Dorothy Allison
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. - Henri Frederic Amiel
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed. - Albert Ellis
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley
“I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.”
― Libba Bray
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. - Friedrich Schiller
Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.
Greg Behrendt
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" by Gandhi,
“Lies don't end relationships the truth does.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“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
"Believe you can and you're halfway there" by Theodore Roosevelt
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul. – Patricia Briggs
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go". -Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright
“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as facts could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. – J.K. Rowling
All things truly wicked start from innocence. - Ernest Hemingway
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”― Isaac Asimov,
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
― Mahatma Gandhi
The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.
Karen Marie Moning
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. - Albert Schweitzer
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
Eric Hoffer
Contention existed before the earth was formed. - Russell M. Nelson
“When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”― Abraham Lincoln
"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table." ~ Rodney Dangerfield
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. – Henri Frederic Amiel
We are the shadow of Sirius. There is the other side of - as we talk to each other, we see the light, and we see these faces, but we know that behind that, there's the other side, which we never know. And that - it's the dark, the unknown side that guides us, and that is part of our lives all the time. It's the mystery. - W. S. Merwin
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. -Bruce Lee
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. - William Butler Yeats
“So the unwanting soul
sees what's hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.”
― Lao Tzu
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. - Daniel J. Boorstin
"The right one will understand the value of loving both your light and your shadow" - Wild Faith
“I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.”
― Criss Jami
“I am never alone now.
You dwell quietly in the chambers of my heart,
a constant hush beneath the noise.
You feel like home,
not a place, but a gravity.”
― Avalon Ash
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. - E. M. Forster
"And I will kiss
every single scar on your body
and soul,
to remind you
that love doesn't
have to hurt"
Ginnie Bale
I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst. - Gore Vidal
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln
“I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. - Alvin Toffler
“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. – Desmond Tutu
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” — Mother Teresa
The best way to hold a people down is to make sure they aren't educated. - Jasmine Crockett
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles. - Russell M. Nelson
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
"In the midst of darkness, light persists. In the depths of silence, wisdom echoes." - Ancient Proverb