Quote From a Book

"...we just don’t think it’s okay to hate what’s different, is all...We make life here far too hard on ourselves. We strive for all the wrong things—perfection, success, money—when all we really need is love.”

~~from A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne
 

"The full weight of her loss, her unmothering, became clear. Miranda remembers the moment to this very day...Her sadness made the sight of happy people infuriating, isolating, as if the world were a big, rollicking party that she was not invited to. Yet she still wanted to be near them, to spy on the party."
~~from All That is Mine I Carry with Me by William Landay
 
One of the most USA quotes ever:

"I know little kids are like, 'When I grow up I wanna be rich so I can buy a hundred cars,' but my lifelong dream is to get rich so I can afford top-notch in-home health care."
~~from Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

(Also indicative of growing up in the U.S., me-version: when I was a little kid, we used to ask each other what we'd buy if we had a million dollars and my response always was, "I'd pay off Daddy's bills!")
 
"Having unchecked faith in a single person is dangerous...I’ve spent my whole life being manipulated by lies told by men who thought they knew what was best for me."

~~from The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton
 
Don't know who to attribute this to

If possible always pick a fat person to work with. Not because they are lazy but because they will always find the easiest way to do the job.
 
"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
 
Whenever I'm arguing with someone about {the afterlife} I always ask 'em, "Do you remember anything before you got here?" And generally if they're honest they'll say no. Then I ask 'em what makes 'em think they'll remember anything when they're gone?
~~from The Longmire Defense by Craig Johnson
 
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full of Sky
 
...{W}ith mass media, entire political classes, and a general public largely ignorant of, or hostile to, science, our civilization cannot survive in its current form. This is not mere opinion but a statement of fact.

~~from A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind by David J. Helfand
 
"You're just learning how the world really works...and I don't envy your forthcoming education."

~~from Dead Mountain: A Nora Kelly Novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
 
Revenge, though fierce with life at first, becomes its own executioner. And no act of vengeance garners greater esteem than one not taken.

~~from The Truth Against the World by David Corbett
 
"...{H}istory...has shown us time and again that the most expedient way to drive a man insane is to isolate him—and what better way to accomplish that than to drum into his brain that insidious term 'self-reliance'? Pound the drum relentlessly, hour after hour, day after day, and you can cut him off not just from society but from his brothers and sisters, his friends and comrades, convince him his few real achievements and innumerable failures are due to no one but himself."

and

"...{T}he invisible hand snatched away the overwhelming share of the planet’s wealth from the workers who produced it."

~~both above from The Truth Against the World by David Corbett
 
"{Y}ou know who wins when it’s chaos. Men with money. Men with guns. They think chaos is swell."

"How many of the world’s wonders manage to survive solely through faith in some illusion? America will prove no exception. History takes no prisoners."

"Don’t let the hucksters play you for fools any longer. They don’t believe in freedom, not yours. They believe in power. Stop pretending rage can save you, stop hiding behind righteous indignation so you can hate with a clear conscience. There’s power in kindness, too, in care, in concern. In simple decency and honesty. Don’t drown in your anger. Love one another. Welcome the stranger. Embrace your humble humanity. And that of others."

~~from The Truth Against the World by David Corbett
 
Alizerine said:
I love Emerson and Thoreau and I really like this thread.
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:) Mr. Perfect. Personally, I think Thoreau should have minded his own business. Here's just one example.
"An unclean person is universally a slothful one, one who sits by a stove, whom the sun shines on prostrate, who reposes without being fatigued." --Thoreau
 
Just opened the book JACKIE Public,Private ,Secret by J.Randy Taraborrell.

From the flyleaf page.
"Every moment one lives is different from the other, the good, the bad, the hardship,the joy, the tragedy, love,& happiness are all interwoven into one single whole that is called life."
 

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