Fake Collection

“Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?”

— Nancy Garden, amazon.com

“Even when officers get caught, they know they’ll be investigated by their friends, and put on paid leave. My colleagues would laughingly refer to this as a free vacation. It isn’t a punishment. And excessive force is almost always deemed acceptable in our courts and among our grand juries. Prosecuto…”

— Redditt Hudson, washingtonpost.com

“But more and more, I felt like I couldn’t do the work I set out to do. I was participating in a profoundly corrupt criminal justice system. I could not, in good conscience, participate in a system that was so intentionally unfair and racist. So after five years on the job, I quit.”

— Redditt Hudson, washingtonpost.com

“Champagne costs too much, Whiskey’s too rough, Vodka puts big mouths in gear. This little refrain Should help to explain Why it’s better to order a beer!”

— Robert Herrick, amazon.com

“They only shot a body but they cannot shoot my dreams.”

— Malala Yousafzai, washingtonpost.com

“And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.”

— Malala Yousafzai, youtube.com

“I once read in my physics book that the universe begs to be observed, that energy travels and transfers when people pay attention. Maybe that's what love really boils down to--having someone who cares enough to pay attention so that you're encouraged to travel and transfer, to make your potential en…”

— Jasmine Warga, amazon.com

“Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I" is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness.”

— Shannon Alder, amazon.com

“It is important to learn the difference between staying with an experience until it is completed and hanging on, trying to get something more-anything more-from a situation which is either finished or barren. The basic clues are whether attention to the issue is loose, unfixed, mobile attentiveness…”

— Erving Polster, amazon.com

“Therapy is too good to be limited to the sick.”

— Erving Polster, amazon.com

“When a person has swum, traveled, run a lathe, planted flowers, ridden a motorcycle, made wine, painted a picture, parachuted, he has increased the fund from which he may draw for new figural developments. In other words, as the background of his experience becomes more diversified, it also becomes…”

— Erving Polster, amazon.com

“I raise my voice not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.”

— Malala Yousafzai, youtube.com

“Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.”

— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.com

“My mother always told me, 'hide your face-people are looking at you.' I would reply, 'it does not matter; I am also looking at them.'”

— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.com

“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”

— Malala Yousafzai, youtube.com

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world.”

— Malala Yousafzai, youtube.com

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.”

— Katharine Hepburn, amazon.com

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.’”

— Marilyn Monroe, goodreads.com

“Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problems: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.’”

— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

— Rumi, amazon.com

“You lost her and it wasn't because she was hard to hold, or love, or touch but because she was made of your absence, of all the things you ignored and all the beautiful poetry you read but failed to understand”

— Robert Drake, amazon.com

“The reason relationships are falling apart in modern times, is because we now have choice. And we’re choosing to be scared. We’re choosing to run from our own vulnerability. We’re choosing to blame others instead of seeing the truth – the opportunity to look inside and grow.”

— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com

“The problem is not in the girl who needed too much from him or the guy who exuded a fake arrogance to hide his vulnerability. The problem is that these people are mirroring back to us our own issues, and we keep switching people, but WE are the one common denominator. Their neediness, their arroganc…”

— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com

“We’re too busy staring at our smart phones and iPads that we don’t even know who we really are. We are over-stimulated, externally-focused and too scared to look inside and find out what lights us up inside, what our fears are, and who we are when the world feels like it’s closing in from the outsid…”

— Kiara O'Leary, thoughtcatalog.com

“Find someone who will amplify you. You were born to be loud. You are a blown-ear drum kind of loud and you own it. Find someone who makes you louder.”

— Tatum Ryan, thoughtcatalog.com

“Find someone who will dance. I don’t say this lightly. Find someone who will grab your hand and spin you out on the dance floor even though neither of you can dance and everyone is watching. Find someone who will turn a car ride into a disco. Find someone who will have fun with you with no fear of b…”

— Tatum Ryan, thoughtcatalog.com

“Find someone who does not confuse impulsive with irresponsible. Find someone who wants to listen to you.”

— Tatum Ryan, thoughtcatalog.com

“He quieted you. But you were not born to be quiet.”

— Tatum Ryan, thoughtcatalog.com

“He called you wild that night on the dock where you drank wine from Dixie cups and went skinny dipping in the bay. Then over time wild stopped being a good thing.”

— Tatum Ryan, thoughtcatalog.com

“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com