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"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
— Malcolm X

tags: activism, truth
196 people liked it

"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: truth
86 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,477 people liked it

"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world."
— Emmet Fox

tags: love
128 people liked it

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight
5,728 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,689 people liked it

"And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart? "
— James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

tags: joyce, spirituality, subjectivity, women
21 people liked it

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

tags: music
2,299 people liked it

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: delight, heart, sorrow, truth, weeping
150 people liked it

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
— Albert Camus

tags: happiness, meaning-of-life
875 people liked it

"There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow and endless drizzle.

You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.

Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.

Whenever it rains you will think of her. "
— Neil Gaiman

tags: missed-connections, rain
83 people liked it

"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"
— E.M. Forster

tags: advice, e-m-, essay, fiction, forster, writing
54 people liked it

"[aramis i kissing a woman he has been tutoring in theology then finds out his student is married]
Aramis: We must pray for our sins.
[husband busts in and fires]
Aramis: On second thought, God's often busy. "
— *the three musketeers

tags: humor, movie
23 people liked it

"When we truly love, it is never lost. It is only after death that the depth of the bond is truly felt, and our loved one becomes more a part of us than was possible in life."
— Oriental tradition.

tags: death
118 people liked it

"My soul will find yours."
— Jude Deveraux (A Knight in Shining Armor)

tags: romance
271 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life
1,644 people liked it

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)

tags: lotr, war
277 people liked it

"If you look for 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, and in the end, despair."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: truth
192 people liked it

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: activism, life, philosophical
162 people liked it

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: heaven, religion
433 people liked it

"Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can."
— Gloria Mallette

tags: african, american, books, family, fiction, marriage, psychological, suspense
45 people liked it

"“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.” "
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: dalai, happiness, harm, lama, reduction
32 people liked it

"Is there a place called happiness?"
— Tammy Huang

tags: happiness
11 people liked it

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
— Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)

tags: hope, imagination, inspirational
1,216 people liked it

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love
2,387 people liked it

"Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

tags: memories
289 people liked it

"Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love."
— Karl Petzke and Sara Slavin

tags: chocolate, symbolization
9 people liked it

"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."
— Benjamin Disraeli

tags: precious, time, truth
18 people liked it

"I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"

And he says,
"How much time do you want?""
— Diamanda Galás (The Shit of God: The Texts of Diamanda Galás)

tags: devil, time
3 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

tags: friendship
1,499 people liked it

"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time."
— Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing)

tags: change
257 people liked it

"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: family, god, parents
260 people liked it

"I have heard so many lies and I've seen those empty smiles, knowing that somewhere else I could see the smile that means something."
— To/Die/For

tags: lies
5 people liked it

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: music
616 people liked it

"I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: comfort, healing, loneliness
120 people liked it

"the future is uncertain but the end is always near "
— Jim Morrison

tags: doom, future, time
27 people liked it

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