Quote From a Book

"People say you should listen to your inner voice, but my inner voice is always going on about burning down the garages of people who are mean to me. Maybe I should listen to my inner voice’s inner voice. I imagine it just wants love and kindness. And matches, probably. I can never find matches."
~~from You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds by Jenny Lawson
 
"Yesterday, I bought a shirt and the rack said 'slightly irregular' and the price tag said 'slightly off,' and I thought it would have been more accurate if those things were written on the front of my shirt, but still, I’ll take it. Also, it was on sale for some reason."
~~from You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds by Jenny Lawson
 

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[M]en who at any point in their lives have had the power to frighten people, to terrorize them, become addicted to that power. Intimidation was how they influenced the world around them, how they made themselves felt, and it’s hard to give that up."
~~from “In the Time of the Voodoo” by John Lantigua, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017 issue
 
"You [ask] for wisdom? Hear these words. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality."
~~from The Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper
 
"It [is] impossible to look at a pilot whale cutting through the water, or a dolphin leaping out of a wave for the sheer joy of being alive, and not love them. They [are] majestic wonders of the natural world, and if mankind [has] any obligation left to the sea that [has] been its birthplace, it [is] preserving the ones [who’ve] stayed behind."

AND:

"You shouldn’t eat anything that knows how to play fetch. It’s rude."

~~above 2 from Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
 
"
[There’s a] fault line separating the ground of verified evidence from the tectonic plate of obstinate belief."
~~from “Introduction” by Sarah Vowell in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017, ed. by Sarah Vowell
 
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It’s important to tell the young they can be 'anything they can dream,' so that one day, they’ll blame themselves instead of the system."
~~from Selected Tweets from @Werner Twertzog by William Pannapacker on Twitter.com
 
"Some people just need a tap on the shoulder to change. Others need a slap in the face. Me? I’ve often needed a piano dropped on my head."
~~from Why We Did It by Tim Miller
 
"He has brought down rulers from their thrones,
And has exalted those who were humble.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
And sent away the rich empty-handed."
~~Luke Ch. 1:52-53, New American Standard Bible

(We can hope, right? ;) )
 
"America is the wealthiest nation on earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves...Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.
~~from Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
 
"...[H]uman beings often become passive not because they are ignorant, stupid, lazy, or immature but because they are overwhelmed by their pain, and their primary goal is to shut down or divert themselves in order to function at all."
~~from Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite by Bruce E. Levine
 
"...If people are too stupid to figure out the relationship between the oceans being dead and their own future, they don't deserve to continue on this still-beautiful planet."
~~from The Myth of Human Supremacy by Derrick Jensen
 
"The lie [of a] hierarchy...--whether you call it the Great Chain of Being or the "food chain"--[is that it] exists at all. There is no top of any food chain. It's all cycles within cycles. You eat the fish who ate the worm, and in time the worm eats you. It doesn't matter whether you are a gnat or an elephant, you eat and you will be eaten. Get over it."
~~from The Myth of Human Supremacy by Derrick Jensen
 

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