“I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn’t found where I loved, and so I pretended there was nowhere to love.”-John Fowles

"If you believe in trying to make the best of the finite number of years we have on this planet, think that pride and self-righteousness are the cause of most conflict and negativity, and are humbled by the vastness and mystery of the Universe, then I'm the same religion as you." --- Sal Khan

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?" - Chuck Palahniuk

“The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.” -John Green

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Gustav Jung

"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." -Buddha

"Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty." – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader, born 1850

"Of all the machinery created by the Constitution, the House alone directly reflected and represented the people; and if the people disliked it, they disliked themselves."

"The world is simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." - Henry Miller

"Go out and do something. It isn't your room that's a prison, it's yourself." - Sylvia Plath

“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company” ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. -Tony Robbins

"One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story." - Noam Chomsky

"The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves." - Mark Twain

"Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying." Unknown.

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”-William Blake

"It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, w ...