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“If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.”
― John Patrick Shanley, Doubt, a Parable

“At the moment the eyes of the body closed, the eyes of the mind were opened.”
― Ousmane Sembène, God's bits of wood

“I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting. ”
― Adam Clayton Powell

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
― Robert Orben

“Drowning people
Sometimes die
Fighting their rescuers.”
― Octavia Butler

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
― Octavia Butler

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“Wherever you are is the entry point”
― Kabir

“You damn your own soul better than I ever could.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Twinkle Twinkle little star.
You are nothing.
You've been dead for a thousand years.”
― Linda Barry

“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
― Maya Angelou

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty”
― Ousmane Sembène, God's Bits of Wood

“True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa