“Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.”— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com
“I believe there is a difference between intrinsic human nature— which I agree does not change, and the aspects of human nature we routinely express, which can and do change.”— Al Gore, amazon.com
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor…”— Muhammad Ali, zenmarxist.tumblr.com
“A wise man who I loved very much once said: “Let’s stop finding a new witch of the week and burning them at the stake. We are all horrible and wonderful and figuring it out.””— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, medium.com
“It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking one of the risks my heart had urged upon me I could also feel I was not alone. If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more than we all shared the drea…”— Scott Spencer, amazon.com
“In general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual’s life energy. Humans connect with humans. Hiding one’s humanity and trying to project an image of perfection makes a person vague, slippery, lifeless, and uninteresting…”— Robert Glover, amazon.com
“The seeds of life— fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.”— Virgil, amazon.com
“And I feel my body fully, vessel of desire, my stomach a pond of want and warmth, utterly human, divine and awake. And I can hear each bird's separate song, the chirt and scree, the sip, sip, sip, the dwindle and uplift yearning, the soup's on, soup's on, let up, let it go of each individual voice,…”— Dorianne Laux, amazon.com
“Accidents never happen when the room is empty. Everyone understands this. Everyone needs a place. People like to think war means something.”— Richard Siken, psychologytomorrowmagazine.com
“They say the planet is dying – but the planet is not dying, it just has a major infestation of us.”— Michael Lipsey, stoicmike.tumblr.com
“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”— James Agee, amazon.com
“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”— Alan Rickman, thoughtcatalog.com
“In a world of so much violence and killing, I just don’t believe that government itself should be part of the killing”— Bernie Sanders, huffingtonpost.com
“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
““The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.”— Frederick Lewis Donaldson, goodreads.com