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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. - C. S. Lewis
Let no one weep for me or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. - Quintus Ennius
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. - Mahatma Gandhi
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. - Voltaire
There's a part of the grieving process where the soul almost leaves your body too, as though it's off searching for the one you lost, somewhere in the ether. You walk around, doing all the right things but it's really as though you're the ghost. Perhaps you are. Perhaps your soul searches until you find them again and when you do, they tell you to go back and live. So, when that numbness passes brave one, maybe it's time to do what you are told and live, twice as hard, for those who no longer can. - Donna Ashworth
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it. - Olivia Newton John
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. - Milan Kundera
“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”
― Osho, The Buddha Said
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement. - Irvine Welsh
The more I want to get something done the less I call it work - Richard Bach
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. - H. P. Lovecraft
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. - William James
I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused. - Anne Heche
It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow. - Anne Heche
RIP
“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”—Henri Frederic Amiel
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. - Alfred Adler
“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.” ~ Anne Rice.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings. - Salman Rushdie
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. - Albert Einstein
“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Poo
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. - Charlotte Bronte
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” -Mother Teresa
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. - Herodotus
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. - Anthony D'Angelo
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley