When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. - Robert M. Pirsig
I am human, therefore anything human is not alien to me. - Maya Angelou
"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
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. - Aristotle
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist" - Indira Gandhi
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. - Henry David Thoreau
"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
-Kepler
Friends applaud, the comedy is over. – Ludwig van Beethoven
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck
“I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe
“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”
― Stephen Hawking
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
“There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.” – N. K. Jemisin
The life so short, the craft so long to learn. - Hippocrates
“It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum…and I’m all outta gum.” – Duke Nukem
"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it..."
Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.”
― John Patrick Hickey
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that. - Eckhart Tolle
"As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest" - Nelson Mandela
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent. - Plato
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
― Walt Whitman
i was a hand grenade that never stopped exploding
- marilyn manson
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”
― Roy T. Bennett
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony"- Mahatma Gandhi
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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."
DR. Martin Luther King Jr.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. - Gore Vidal
“And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men and women who died, who gave that right to me.” - Lee Greenwood
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. - Alan Watts
"If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread" - Neil deGrasse Tyson