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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“It's a hard world for little things.”
― Davis Grubb

“What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth”
― Cornell West

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“I become the transparent eyeball...”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Reality does not yield to wishful thinking and truth cannot be established by a political party (or any other organization for that matter).”
― Bill Schutt, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

“[Our world] seeks to encourage empathy, kindness, and compassion in children but seems suspicious of these same values in adults.”
― Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, The 30-Day Vegan Challenge: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Healthfully and Living Compassionately

“Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.”
― Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, On Being Vegan

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“That is the ultimate question for all of us: do our actions reflect our values? Do our traditions reflect our beliefs? Do our purchases reflect our ethics? After all, what’s the point in having values if we don’t manifest them in our behavior?”
― Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

“If we didn’t feel there was something problematic with eating meat, dairy, and eggs in the first place, we wouldn’t have worked so hard to justify our behavior, we wouldn’t have tried so hard to avoid looking at the processes…Don’t tell me. I don’t want to know is not what we say when confronted with how carrots are harvested from the ground or how plums are plucked from trees. Don’t tell my children what they’re really eating. It would be too upsetting for them is not what we say when asked about how apples become applesauce. In all aspects of our life, guilt serves as a red flag that something isn’t right, tapping us on the shoulder to let us know we may have strayed from our principles or goals.”
― Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, The Joyful Vegan: How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Eggs

“A lady never reveals her age! But I am closer to 29 than I am to 92 ...”
― Sheri

“The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“pretty pebbles to customers.” Everyone”
― Arnie Lightning, Wiggly the Worm

“or gone here or there, downtown. Wiggly knew”
― Arnie Lightning, Wiggly the Worm

“But being born on the same planet as the Beatles is one of the ten best things that’s ever happened to me.”
― Rob Sheffield, Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World

“I prefer cinnamon twists over scones because they’re easier to eat while I’m reading. That’s my main priority when it comes to food. Other people are obsessed with calories, nutritional value, antioxidants. I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?”
― Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book, & Scone Society

“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.”
― Bradley Miller

“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
― Alice Walker

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
― George Carlin

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Mabel, Mabel, strong and able,
Keep your elbows off the table,
This is not a horse's stable,
But a fancy dining table.”
― Ann B. Rice