“We’re surrounded by stories of success that conspire to make success seem easier than it in fact is – and therefore that unwittingly destroy the confidence we can muster in the face of our obstacles. Every great achievement was monstrously hard.”
– Alain De Botton
“Revolution doesn’t have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.”
– Joseph Campbell
I suspect the most we can hope for, and it’s no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.
– Elizabeth Strout
“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
– Max Ehrmann
“Reading isn’t important because it helps get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. Reading makes the world better. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape. Reading is love in action.”
– Matt Haig
“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“We need to broaden our definition of what leadership looks like. When we see behaviour that’s different, it gets judged in a negative light”
– Carolyn Tastad
“When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.”
– Unknown
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman
“Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.”
– John Steinbeck
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that is counted truly counts.”
– Unknown
‘Wasting time’ is mostly just fear.
– Alain de Botton
“Think it over, think it under.”
– A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers.. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
– Carl Sagan
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. . . . No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you.
Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn’t vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today—and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever.
Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush?
They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us—they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis.
And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.”
– Hunter S. Thompson