Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

I was run over by the truth one day. Ever since the accident I've walked this way

Adrian Mitchell

What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.

John Stuart Mill

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Albert Camus

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

Susanna Moodie

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit.

Max Ehrmann

To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.

American Indian Proverb, Oglala

Yes! thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ... There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my everyday fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.

George Eliot

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Tommy Cooper

Innocence eroded into nightmare.All because of very bad touch.Love, corrupted.

Ellen Hopkins

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Michael Garrett Marino

I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself.

Kristine Gasbarre