“Your car is German. Your vodka is Russian. Your pizza is Italian. Your kebab is Turkish. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies are American. Your tea is Tamil. Your shirt is Indian. Your oil is Saudi Arabian. Your electronics are Chinese. Your numbers Arabic, your letters Latin. And you complain that your neighbour is an immigrant? Pull yourself together.”
– Unknown
“The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
– Winston Churchill
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”
– Jean Luc Picard
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
– Carl Jung
“You will know who your true friends are when you get sick or distressed. If one you thought was your friend keeps his distance from you during trying times then he should be considered a coward.”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very loud, and it’s fun for a while.
Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, “Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?” And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, “Hey, don’t worry; don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.” And we … kill those people. “Shut him up! I’ve got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.” It’s just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn’t matter, because it’s just a ride.
And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
– Bill Hicks
“Cynicism is like an armour – it will, initially, protect you. But you cannot grow in armour, you cannot dance in armour”
– Caitlin Moran
“Deserve your dream.”
– Octavio Paz
Hate doesn’t have a creed, race or religion, it is poisonous
– Brendan Cox
“Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice”
– Mary Berry
“Common communication mistake: people bias towards being exhaustive/complete rather than clear about what is most important.”
– Dustin Moskovitz
“Passion is the result of action, not the cause of it.”
– Mark Manson
“Not knowing who or what we are dealing with and feeling unsafe, we hunker down in a psychological foxhole and withhold the investment of our energy, commitment, and gifts… The perceived incongruity of inner and outer-the inauthenticity that we sense in others, or they in us-constantly undermines our morale, our relationships, and our capacity for good work.”
– Parker Palmer
“Be the flame, not the moth.”
– Giacomo Casanova
“Who am I”, you ask?
I am made from all the people I’ve encountered and all the things I have experienced.
Inside, I hold the laughter of my friends, the arguments with my parents, the chattering of young children, the warmth of kind strangers.
Inside, there are stitches from cracked hearts, bitter words from heated arguments, music that gets me through and emotions I cannot convey.
I am made from all these people and moments.
That is who I am.
– Ming Di Liu