"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." —Charles Kingsley
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk. - Tom Waits, "Heartattack and Vine
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." —Lain S. Thomas
“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.” ―Shaun Hick
“There are things I need of you. Things you may not understand and may not wish to do, but please… do not make the same mistakes I did.”- Philip, Penumbra Overture.
"Stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover." — Charles Bukowski
"The difference between obedience and love is the difference between 'I don't want to, but I will' and 'I don't have to, but I will.'" -my mother, the week before she died
"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own." — Marcus Aurelius
"One reason we struggle with insecurity: we're comparing our behind -the-scenes to everyone else's highlight reel." - Steven Furtick
"Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve, he who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves." — Herbert Marcuse
"We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die." —Umberto Eco
"You cannot lead as a tyrant. The people under you will not let you. To lead is a kind of service, a duty you owe to those who follow." -Christopher Ruocchio, Demon in White
"The very highest and most fundamental work of good citizenship is to leave the next generation in right shape" -Theodore Roosevel
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” –Plato