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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960) “The Journals”
“Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.” – Catherine Pulsifer
If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. - Chuck Palahniuk
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. - Franz Liszt
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
― W. Clement Stone
I am demonic, I am strong & weak, I am the harbinger of death, I am not a monster, I am a man. - Dennis Nilsen (serial killer)
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. - Winston Churchill
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King.
We’ve all got the power in our hands to kill, but most people are afraid to use it. The ones who aren’t afraid, control life itself. - Richard Ramirez (serial killer, aka 'The Night Stalker')
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot. - William Inge
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. - Elbert Hubbard
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Den hund som bieffer meget, han bider ikkun lidet. – Barking dogs seldom bite.-Old Norse idiom
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. - Herman Melville
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
~ Gandhi
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. - Aeschylus
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
-Seneca
Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. - John Milton
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw.
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. - Oscar Wilde
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.- Elie Wiesel
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. - Augustus Hare
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
Epictetus
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. - Ronald Reagan