“The difficulty of speaking out in a small world means we must listen to those with the bravery to do it.”— Gwenda Bond, twitter.com
“I can be wrong (a lot) but you can't use my being wrong as a reason to act like I don't get to have a voice in our conversation.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“Everyone has an opinion about everything/everybody but opinions aren't enough. We have to act. There is too much at stake.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“When people say I’m opinionated it sounds like I’m a pain in the ass but really, I just have a point of view.”— Jean Touitou, vestoj.com
“When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. T…”— Adyashanti, amazon.com
“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“What good would it be to discuss such a proposition, when force could destroy the best arguments?”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives; but none about his or her own.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I hope one day you grow out of this idea that what matters most is what other people think of you.”— Jenni Elizabeth, quotemadness.com
“Everyone has the right to believe in anything they want. And everyone else has the right to find it fucking ridiculous.”— Ricky Gervais, twitter.com
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about…love…and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of m…”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”— Christopher Hitchens, amazon.com