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“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.”
― O. Henry, Selected Stories

“No friendship is an accident. ”
― O. Henry, Heart of the West

“Тоз, който падне в бой за свобода, той не умира”
― Христо Ботев, Поезия. Публицистика

“Вярвам в единната обща сила на человеческий род на земното кълбо, за да твори добро.”
― Христо Ботев

“Настане вечер — месец изгрее,
звезди обсипят сводът небесен;
гора зашуми, вятър повее, —
Балканът пее хайдушка песен!”
― Христо Ботев

“Човек има отношение само с Бог, Юра, казала Адриана, каза Юра, Отношенията не са между човек и човек, а само между човек и Бог. Това е много важно да се проумее, Юра, казала Адриана, защото тогава нашият живот не е вече само наш, а става общ. Бог се превъплъщава в човек, когото обичаме или мразим, който ни пречи или помага, който ни вдъхновява или унижава, понякога в редки мигове го разпознаваме, в повечето случаи обаче не. Ние нямаме врагове или приятели, близки или далечни, познати или непознати хора, Юра, казала Адриана, каза Юра, всичко е едно. Всичко е едно.”

"Адриана”
― Теодора Димова

“Някой в България засяваше тръни по протежение на пътищата и чрез безнадеждния им вид убиваше малките остатъци от надежда.”
― Калин Терзийски, Алкохол

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
― Frank Zappa

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”
― audrey hepburn

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

“Because she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her, and he said, "Run away, you poor child.”
― Wilhelm Grimm

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal