Latest Quotes

“We don’t think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.”

— Donald Miller, Scary Close

“Sometimes the story we’re telling the world isn’t half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.”

— Donald Miller, Scary Close

“If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them. I want to be one of me.”

— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose

“We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same.”

— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”

— Stephen King, 11/22/63

“It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.”

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

“Every error, of whatever kind, is a consequence of degeneration of instinct, disgregation of will: one has thereby virtually defined the bad. Everything good is instinct – and consequently easy, necessary, free. Effort is an objection.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ

“Because the truth is, if you want that big, passionate, all-consuming love, you’re going to have to go after it. You’re going to have to fight for it. You’re going to have to be willing to put yourself out there in a way that could potentially humiliate or break you. And at the end of the day, it mi…”

— Heidi Priebe, If You Want Big Love, You’re Going To Have To Go After It

“We’ve gotten so wrapped up in protecting our egos that we’ve forgotten what it means to love freely. Or even how to let ourselves feel. Because the truth is, the kind of love that all of us are aching for isn’t the kind that plays by the rules.”

— Heidi Priebe, If You Want Big Love, You’re Going To Have To Go After It

“Last week, none of the three major cable news networks — CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC — carried Mrs. Clinton’s speech to a workers’ union in Las Vegas, where she debuted sharp new attack lines against Mr. Trump.Instead, each chose to broadcast a live feed of an empty podium in North Dakota, on a stage wh…”

— Michael M. Grynbaum, Television Networks Struggle to Provide Equal Airtime in the Era of Trump

“Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is one of the most famous World Heritage Sites on the planet.Yet you won’t read about the Great Barrier Reef in the U.N. climate report, after the Australian government demanded all mentions of the reef be scrubbed, for fear that tourism would suffer.Record-breaking ho…”

— Ryan Koronowski, Threatened By Climate Change, National Parks And World Heritage Sites Draw Millions

“We remain committed to letting the Tweets flow. However, there is a clear distinction between freedom of expression and conduct that incites violence and hate.”

— Karen White, Stephanie Bodoni, Tech Giants Vow to Tackle Online Hate Speech Within 24 Hours

“More broadly, the righteousness with which Thiel acted, and with which many on Twitter reacted, combined with a seeming lack of obliviousness to how this might look to the outside world, very much reconfirmed fears I have voiced repeatedly that the tech industry is headed for a regulatory disaster o…”

— Ben Thompson, Disrupting Basketball, Thiel-Gawker Follow-up, Intel and ARM

“I am above and beyond the limits of your vocabulary, the shortness of your sight.”

— James Helenski, via Tumblr

“You will always be okay! Money and material things come to you when you dare to trust in life’s ability to take you exactly where you need to go. When we live in fear we create tense vibrations that keep the things we long for at a distance. Worrying is praying for what we don’t want to happen. Focu…”

— Rachel Brathen, Yoga Girl

“We are all in charge of our own happiness. Life does not happen to us, it happens for us!”

— Rachel Brathen, Yoga Girl

“Because if you’re lucky enough to have people in your life that make you happy, that inspire you, that move you, you need to devour each moment you have together because you never know how many of those moments you have left. These people are sacred.”

— Katie Kacvinsky, Purple Buddha project

“You can’t be enslaved to something you choose”

— Rei Kawakubo, Rei Kawakubo’s Radical Chic

“Latino support of Trump is almost what I call social schizophrenia. That’s when you should understand that this movement is so totally against your own interest, however, you don’t have the common sense, the self-worth or the knowledge to see things the way they are.”

— Mona Llamas, Trump weirdness in Fresno: Latinos who love him, police who charm the protesters

“Robin Abcarian: Trump's rhetoric about Mexicans doesn’t bother you? Mary Jennings: It’s about illegal aliens! Mom and I can’t go to Canada and just squat and get benefits. We couldn’t go to Mexico either without the proper paperwork. They’d put us in jail!”

— Robin Abcarian, Trump weirdness in Fresno: Latinos who love him, police who charm the protesters