“The soul is healed by being with children.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.”
— C. JoyBell C.“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
— Jess C Scott“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.”
— Albert Camus“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
— Robert E. Howard“We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.”
— Catherynne M. Valente“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.”
— Suzy Kassem“It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.”
— Wallace Stegner“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”
— Marcel Duchamp“We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”
— Alan Bennett“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”
— Kurt Cobain“... for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians and courtesans.”
— Patrick Rothfuss“People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.”
— Debasish Mridha M.D.“We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.”
— Stefan Molyneux“What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.”
— Theodor W. Adorno“Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society”
— Mohadesa Najumi“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”
— Eric Hoffer“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
— Stefan Molyneux“Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.”
— Aberjhani“I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”
— Stefan Molyneux“Le but n'est rien, le développement est tout. Le spectacle ne veut en venir à rien d'autre qu'à lui-même.”
— Guy Debord“Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.”
— Guy Debord“We are all mutants of sanity.”
— Anthony T. Hincks“Il est le soleil qui ne se couche jamais sur l'empire de la passivité moderne. Il recouvre toute la surface du monde et baigne indéfiniment dans sa propre gloire.”
— Guy Debord“If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.”
— Jess C Scott“People make the rules of society, not God.”
— V.C. Andrews“Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.”
— W. H. Auden“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.”
— Germany Kent“Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”
— Sherwood Smith“A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.”
— Isak Dinesen“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”
— Amit Kalantri“No one is beyond saving.”
— Anthony T. Hincks“When the wisdom of the old meets the energy of the young, society achieves true equilibrium of growth, progress, and stability.”
— Aloo Denish Obiero“To walk in the woods is not to run from life. Rather, it’s to observe how life should be done in order to build a culture that won’t require any running.”
— Craig D. Lounsbrough