“The spectacular truth is — and this is something that your DNA has known all along— the very atoms of your body — the iron, calcium, phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and on and on — were initially forged in long-dead stars. This is why, when you stand outside under a moonless, country sky, you…”— Gerald D. Waxman, amazon.com
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.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
“Be the villain you were born to be. Stop waiting for someone to come along and corrupt you. Succumb to the darkness yourself.”— Anonymous, emolgaaaa.tumblr.com
“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”— Alan Rickman, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You’ve got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled…”— D.H. Lawrence, amazon.com
“The ache to remember what it is to be alive, is just as beautiful today.”— Orooj-e-Zafar, themissingslate.com
“You are hard to look at not because you glow, but because you are the drop off of a skyscraper. You are the distance to the ground, you are what people fear to fall into, you are what people risk their lives to see. And when someone does finally see you, it is because they were courageous enough to…”— Lillian Shelton, helladopeprncs.tumblr.com
“My friends, I am the son of a Polish immigrant who came to this country speaking no English, and having no money. My father worked everyday of his life, and he never made a whole lot. My Mom and Dad, and brother and I grew up in a small three and a half room, rent controlled apartment in Brooklyn, N…”— Bernie Sanders, washingtonpost.com
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”— Albert Camus, amazon.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
“We have to strive to do extraordinary work, we have to strive to find extraordinary love.”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com
“Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”— Carlos Castaneda, thinkexist.com
“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”— Marianne Williamson, skdesigns.com