You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

J.K. Rowling

When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol' man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment.

Rodney Dangerfield

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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Anais Nin

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

Pittacus Lore

My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.

Shia LaBeouf

And life is what we make it.Always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Elizabeth I

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

Marcel Proust

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

George McGovern

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln