Great & Meaningful Quotes

[PamfromTx]

 

[PamfromTx]

 

[PamfromTx]

 

[PamfromTx]

 

[packleader]

But the most terrible of the horrors is man in his delusion - Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken, Das ist der Mensch in seinem Wahn (Friedrich Schiller)

 

[Tish]

 

[PamfromTx]

 

[Tish]

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[officerripley]

"We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is."
~~Mark Vonnegut, MD, in a letter to Kurt Vonnegut, as quoted in Bluebeard

 

[squatting dog]

The tongue has no bones, but is strong enough to break a heart.
So, be careful with your words.

 

[Tish]

 

[squatting dog]

 

[officerripley]

There is no silence in the living nervous system. An electrical symphony of communication streams through our neurons every moment we exist. We are built for communication. Only death brings silence.
~~from How Oceans Think by Dr. Ha Nguyen

 

[officerripley]

[Almost all] old men want it to be like it was when they were young. But it’ll never be like that again, and they’ll never be young again, no matter what they do.

~~above 4 from American War: A Novel by Omar El Akkad

 

[officerripley]

...[People] say...[g]overnment doesn’t work. Well, take a closer look. Government may not work well for average Americans, but it has been working very well for Wall Street, for multinational corporations, and for the financial superclass. They get the government they want, and they pay handsomely to get it.

~~from Who Stole the American Dream? by Hedrick Smith

 

[squatting dog]

 

[Marian]

“Sometimes being a * itch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”

Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

 

[Supernatural]

If Everything Happens For A Reason...

Why haven't I found the reason yet?

 

[oldaunt]

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde

 

[Dustbunny]

“You are only young once. After that you have to think up some other excuse.” - Billy Arthur

 

[DebraMae]

 

[Della]

The roots of a child’s ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child’s having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return.
Fred Rogers

 

[squatting dog]

 

[packleader]

The late Rev. Schuller, founder of the Crystal Cathedral (now Christ Cathedral) in Garden Grove near Los Angeles:

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

God loves you, and so do I.

What you are is God's gift to you; what you make of yourself is your gift to him.

and many more.