Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. - Gustave Flaubert
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
"People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything" - Emily Blunt
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth" - Buddha
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde
"Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing" - John Atkinson
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. - Leo Tolstoy
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” – Ludwig Wittgenstein.
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
― Abraham Lincoln
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. - Henry David Thoreau
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal" - Albert Pike
“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!” ... unknown to me
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy
"your hand
touching mine.
this is how
galaxies
collide."
Sanober Khan
I have always loved this quote. It is such an amazing soul brush.♡
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. - Theodor W. Adorno
“If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.” ― Steve Irwin
"I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.."
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. - Albert Einstein
It's not just about being sexy, it's about being confident and me being confident in my sexuality - Megan Thee Stallion
They say most of your brain shuts down in cryos-sleep. All but the primitive side; the animal side. No wonder I'm still awake. ~ Riddick
"Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you."
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible (Chronicles of Nick, #2)
"True magic is neither black, nor white. It is both, because nature is both; loving and cruel. The only good of bad is in the heart of they who use it"
~~{{I can't even remember where I heard it, but it was a long time ago.}}~~
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. - Edgar Allan Poe
"Even in my death, I shall cause the third world war."
~ Adolf Hitler
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. - H. L. Mencken
"Each has two 'wolves' within them - Light and Dark. Which one is stronger depends upon which one you feed the most."
~~ Native American Proverb
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. - Thomas Jefferson
"A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does"
Carlos Castaneda
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."
Emily Dickinson
“O little one, My little one, come with me, your life is done.
Forget the future and the past. Life is over: breathe your last."
~~ Clive Barker (though more of a poem, than anything; it's still a reminder to me.)