Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you’re in love or you’re partners in crime. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel alive. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something.
--Oscar Auliq-Ice
Live a good life. If
there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,
but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you
should not want to worship them. If
there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that
will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
--Marcus Aurelius
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask the following
question, “What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
--Marcus Aurelius
I don’t have an issue with what you do in the church, but I’m
going to be up in your face if you’re going to knock on my science classroom
and tell me they’ve got to teach what you’re teaching in your Sunday school. Because that’s when we’re going to fight.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson
Love really just is sharing blankets, driving together in
silence, “This song made me think of you”, “I made them for you,” having the
most fun just talking, cold hands warm hearts, “I got home safe,” “You said you
needed one, so I found one for you”.
--dreamslikehoney
May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your
heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears, and, above all, may
silence make you strong.
- Chief Dan George
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes
a place for that.
--John Green
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is
incomplete.
--Jack Kornfield
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants
and sophisticates, or considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil is
interesting. This is treason of the
artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of
pain.
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Some people tremble at the idea of being alone. I don’t understand. I love my solitude. my energy is never leeched; my feelings are
never hurt. I treat myself well, I
entertain myself, but it’s peaceful.
--Sylvester McNutt
I just think goodness is more interesting. Evil is constant. You can think of different ways to murder
people, but you can do that at age five.
But you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good -- and
that’s complicated.
--Tony Morrison
Edgar Allan Poe is awesome because he wrote about relatable subjects
like grief, loss, unrequited love, burying enemies alive in your cellar, and
being terrified of a bird.
--Amy Dodd Pilkington
Science… is a method for asking awkward questions and
subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe
whatever makes us feel good.
-Sir Terry Pratchett
You want fantasy? Here’s
one… There’s this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock
and a few miles below a vacuum that’d suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between
ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there’s nowhere else
in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds. And what do they call their fragile little
slice of space and time? They call it
real life. In a universe where it is
known that whole galaxies can explode, they think there’s things like ‘natural
justice’ and ‘destiny’. Some of them
even believe in democracy… I’m a fantasy writer, and even I find it all a bit
hard to believe.
--Terry Pratchett
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been
bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the
truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even
to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once
you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
--Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is
that I know nothing.
--Socrates
Let them judge you. Let
them misunderstand you. Let them gossip
about you. Their opinions aren't your
problem. You stay kind, committed to
love, and free in your authenticity. No
matter what they do or say, don't you dare doubt your worth or the beauty of
your truth. Just keep on shining like
you do.
--Scott Stabile
Grow tired of you? Never. No chance in hell. We could share a hundred lifetimes and in our
last few remaining moments, I would find something new to adore about you.
--Beau Taplin
I have come to the conclusion that buying books and reading books
are two completely different hobbies.
--@theartsyreader1
But who prays for Satan?
Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the
one sinner that needed it most?
--Mark Twain
Strange, a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then
invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns
upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then
tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon man, instead of
honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with
altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!
--Mark Twain
Once you lose access to me, don’t expect the same me I gave
you in the beginning. Expect the version
of me you deserve. From the energy you created.
--Unknown
You may believe that living life to the fullest is seeing every
country in the world and quitting your job on a whim and falling recklessly in
love, but it’s really just knowing how to be where your feet are. It’s learning how to take care of yourself,
how to make a home within your own skin.
It’s learning how to build a simple life you are proud of. A life most fully lived is not always
composed of the things that rock you awake, but those that slowly assure you it’s
okay to slow down. That you don’t always
have to prove yourself. That you don’t
need to fight forever, or constantly want more.
That it’s okay for things to be just as they are. Little by little, you will begin to see that
life can only grow outward in proportion to how stable it is inward-that if the
joy is not in the little things first, the big things won’t fully find us.
--Brianna Wiest
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