Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice Walker
A long exposure time gives the soul time to appear. And leaves time for chance to intervene.
Paolo Roversi
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka
Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.
Bertolt Brecht
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
Robert A. Heinlein
Our entire universe is probably in a tiny glass jar somewhere, placed on a shelf in an alien child's room as a science fir project that got a C-.
Anonymous
The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.
Hannah Arendt
Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life.
Anonymous
Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Rachel Carson
One of the hardest pills I've had to swallow was realizing I meant nothing to people that meant a lot to me.
Anonymous
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de Beauvoir
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present movemnt, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
Thomas Aquinas
Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
Sir Winston Churchill
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