We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Chuck Palahniuk

I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who

Bertrand Russell

That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.

Suzanne Collins

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

Albert Camus

Regret is a spiritual scar.

Steve Maraboli

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Blaise Pascal

Courage brother, do not stumble,

Norman Macleod

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Elias Canetti

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.

Stephen Richards

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Martin H. Fischer

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Oscar Wilde