Your Favorite Quote(s)

Maturity is rediscovering the seriousness one had as a child at play. Nietzche
 
“To do all the talking and not be willing to listen is a form of greed.”—Democritus
 
Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life. Sam Vines
 
"Every place I ever was with you seems haunted now, not because you are not there but because of how much you still are."

— Unknown
 
"You closed your eyes because you did not want to see.
You are brave enough to hurt me but not brave enough to watch me bleed."


— Unknown
 
"Put down your fucking guns and pick up your kids.”
--Sherman Alexie, "The Toughest Indian in the World"
 
There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living".

Nelson Mandela...
 
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

~ Leonard Cohen
 
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
 
“Whenever someone says they’re a little concerned, they’re very concerned.
And when they say they’re more than a little concerned, they’re desperate.”
—from The Irishman
 
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
—Issac Asimov
 
“I think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. That there isn't their life and our life. Nor your life and my life.
That it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled with it as deep as entanglement goes.”

~Kate Forster
 
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“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”

- Groucho Marx

A friend said this the other day and 🤯
 
"There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up."
(Tony Benn)
 
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