#men

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#pretentious #accomplishments

Ah, Ms. Ferrars. I don't know what you hope to accomplish by sitting in the corner. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#juliette #accomplishments

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#enlightenment

Only cowards torture women. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#torture #women #torture

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#failure #luck #near-hits #near-misses #nearly

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#asked #autograph #believing #claus #department

If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#fuck #government #profanity #censorship

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#enlightenment

We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy ... It's only through people making a stand against that tragedy and being doggedly optimistic that we are going to win through. If you look at the plight of the human race it could well tip you into despair, so you have to be very strong. ↗

— Robert James Brown

#environmental-justice #nature #social-justice #nature