“There are two secrets to success: 1) Never tell everything you know…” ~ Roger H Lincoln
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t” ~ Bill Nye
“You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.” ~ Janis Joplin
“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.” ~ Will Smith
“No, we have to take in nourishment, expel waste and breathe in enough oxygen to keep our cells from dying. Everything else is purely optional.” ~ Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory)
“The most wasted of all days is the one without laughter.” ~ E E Cummings
“Maybe if we stop numbering our squares, we wouldn’t know when we’d gone back to one.” ~ Sammy Dunn
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have” ~ Maya Angelou
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” ~ Dalai Lama
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” ~ Fred Rogers
“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.” ~ Judith Hayes
“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.” ~ Dave Ramsey
“Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.” ~ Alice Herz Sommer
What is it you most dislike? “Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.” ~ Christopher Hitchens
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
“You are always responsible for how you act, no matter how you feel.” ~ Robert Tew
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil – that takes religion.” ~ Steven Weinberg
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” ~ Twyla Tharp
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” ~ Noam Chomsky
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.” ~ John A Wheeler
“You never need an argument against the use of violence; you need an argument for it.” ~ Noam Chomsky
“Man is not what he thinks he is; he is what he hides.” ~ André Malraux
“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.” ~ Richard P Feynman
“We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.” ~ Martin Luther King
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” ~ H Yahya
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” ~ Jorge Luis Borges
“I like having my hair and face done, but I’m not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy” ~ Adele
“What we think, we become.” ~ Buddha
“Someone else is happy with less than what you have.” ~ Anonymous
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” ~ Cesar Cruz
“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90… time is a concept that humans created” ~ Yoko Ono
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” ~ Audre Lorde
“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.” ~ Mary Oliver
“It’s frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you’re just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.” ~ Graham Lineham
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
“Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.” ~ Orson Welles
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those that speak it.”” ~ George Orwell
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” ~ Helen Keller
“What is important is the way you look at things, not the way things look.” ~ Hady Sy
“My interest is in the future, because I’m going to spend the rest of my life there.” ~ Charles Kettering
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people are so full of doubts.” ~ Bertrand Russell
“Imperfection is a form of freedom” ~ Anh Ngo
“The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed” ~ William Gibson
“The best way to get along with people is not to expect them to be like you.” ~ Joyce Meyer
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is a voyage through time.” ~ Carl Sagan
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ~ Isaac Asimov
“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.” Bob Marley
“Be silly, be honest, be kind.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.” ~ Zig Ziglar
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard
“No amount of belief makes something a fact.” ~ James Randi
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” ~ Susan Sontag
“Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.” ~ Ray Bradbury
“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The 1% won’t expropriate themselves. And they have a lock on media and politics to ensure voters won’t be able to do so.” ~ David Graeber
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou
“Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the action of human beings.” ~ Nelson Mandela
“If you don’t like my posts, don’t read them. If you are going to comment on my posts and say something negative, learn how to spell.” ~ Sara Pelosi
“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.” ~ Jane Yolen
“Act without expectation.” ~ Lao Tzu
“Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” ~ John F. Kennedy
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.” ~ Douglas Adams
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” ~ Philip K Dick
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” ~ Franklin D Roosevelt
“Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticising.” ~ Richard Branson
“In whose delusional mind is democracy made ‘better’ by allowing wealthy people to control more of it?” ~ Jon Stewart
“The best advice I’ve ever gotten, the surest path to happiness that I know is this: Don’t expect. Don’t expect anything, ever. The less we expect, the happier we are. Expectation is the worst. Consistently, reliably, expectation produces misery.” ~ Dave Bry
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” ~ Christopher Hitchens
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true, the other is to refuse to accept what is true” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
“Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.” ~ Ricky Gervais
“The not fully unpleasant awareness of a cuckoo nesting beside him, on the longtime empty pillow of his wife.” From Room 126 of 999 Rooms, a project by Vanni Santoni ► http://999rooms.wordpress.com/
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” ~ Malcolm X
“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.” ~ Scottish distiller Thomas Dewar
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