It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --
Victor Hugo
I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
Jane Austen
I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.
Cassandra Clare
That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger....
Friedrich Nietzsche
Only as high as I reach can I growOnly as far as I seek can I goOnly as deep as I look can I seeOnly as much as I dream can I be
Karen Ravn
All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.
Pat Buckley
The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
Stephen King
With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.
George Orwell
Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is one thing you cannot get looking for it. If you look for the truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and the in the end, despair.
C.S. Lewis
Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is the hardest thing in the world To think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.
Jodi Picoult
Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her
Accio Brain!
J.K. Rowling
As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
Oscar Wilde
We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
Christopher Hitchens
For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
Plato
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
Paulo Coelho
How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!
I still pray but it's something automatic, and I'm not even sure I still believe in it... Because I've suffered, and God didn't listen to my prayers. because many times in my life I have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
Power outage at a department store yesterday, Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
Steven Wright
I wonder men dare trust themselves with men
William Shakespeare
The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.
Henryk Skolimowski
I'll figure out how to be truer: to let people go if they need to be let go of, and to hold on tight if that's what's called for. I will pay attention, so I can cross each human heart that comes across my path, cross it as true as I can.
Laura Pritchett
Inking is meditation in liquid form...
J.H. Everett
The bitterest hardships, the most daunting trials; none of these are burdens if it means being with you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics, but has become a problem in science only very recently.
Fritjof Capra
The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
Dick Cheney
Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
Herbie Hancock
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.
Joseph Addison
My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.
Demi Lovato
People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.
Lynda Barry
I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.
Emily Mortimer
Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.
Allan Lokos
Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?
Robert Charles Wilson
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
P. J. O'Rourke
The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.
Homer W. Smith
I feel like I'm in a bad dream and I can't wake up
Sherri Lee Emmons
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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