“I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much.”
– Emery Allen
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Human being – Albert Einstein
“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”
– Albert Einstein
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The Public Sucks – George Carlin
“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: ‘The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.”
– George Carlin
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Worries – John Locke
“Whatever worries you, masters you.”
– John Locke
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Future – Unknown
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
– Unknown
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Be quiet – Franz Kafka
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
– Franz Kafka
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You don’t need anyone’s permission –
“You don’t need anyone’s permission, not even your own mind’s, to live a life full of the things that matter to you. Happiness is not the absence of pain, but rather the willingness to ride out the painful bits in order to live the life you want.”
– SuckyBoyfriend on Reddit
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This is what you shall do – Walt Whitman
“This is what you shall do;
Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and
your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
– Walt Whitman
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Giving – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“In giving, you throw a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Light enters – Rumi
“The Wound is the Place where the Light enters You”
– Rumi
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Truth – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Democracy – Winston Churchill
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
– Winston Churchill
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Democracy – J. William Fulbright
“In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.”
– J. William Fulbright
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Butterfly – Muhammad Ali
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.”
– Muhammad Ali
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Your success – Richard Bach
“Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.”
– Richard Bach