February 2010
33 posts
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No road is long with good company.
– Turkish Proverb
January 2010
31 posts
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I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they aren’t around.
– Charles Bukowski
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so...
– J.K. Rowlin
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The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for...
– Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...
– Howard Zinn
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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won you earn it and...
– Coretta Scott King
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For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause...
– Ted Kennedy
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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in...
– Chuck Palahniuk
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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our...
– Albert Pike
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Anyway, I’m exhausted. I had no idea doing nothing all day could be so...
– Lauren Ambrose, Six Feet Under
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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Americans … are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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there came a moment in the middle of the song when she suddenly felt every...
– Brian Andreas
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You have to be so much better than you ever thought.
– Melanie Lynskey, Away We Go
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You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to...
– Mary Tyler Moore
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Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the...
– Jimmy Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about...
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity...
– Sir Cecil Beaton
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I just wonder how many people never get the one they want, but end up with the...
– Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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You can’t love someone for what they stand for or seem to be. You have to love...
– Kate Bosworth, Win a Date With Tad Hamilton
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Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And...
– John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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When I first met him, I knew in a moment I would have to spend the next few days...
– Brian Andreas, Story People
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Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal? Highway or side streets? Kiss...
– Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
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You get what anybody gets—you get a lifetime.
– Neil Gaiman
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I like being on my own. I think relationships are messy and people’s feelings...
– Zooey Deschanel, 500 Days of Summer (via srsly)
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That’s one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough:...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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When you sit down to write a song, do yourself a favor and sing yourself...
– John Mayer
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, ‘I’m not...
– Charles Bukowski
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we...
– Ivan Turgenev
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As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point in the...