"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." -- Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805 - 1859
“This virus will leave us entirely newborn people. We will all be different, none of us will ever be the same again. We will have deeper roots, be made of denser soil, and our eyes will have seen things.” ― C. JoyBell C.
"To all you young millennial a--holes that keep going out partying, go home. Stop killing old people,"---Hilary Duff Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” --Eckhart Tolle
“A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.” ― A.L. Kennedy, Day Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?” ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
“This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with`disease'. They know how to attach a doctor's medical descriptions to hope.” ― Amy Reed, Clean
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison
It's no good trying to get rid of your 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 aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.” ― Stewart Stafford
“It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.” ― John Cage
“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.” ― Charles Eisenstein
“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.” ― Albert Camus, The Plague Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.” ― Kelli Jae Baeli, Too Much World
"The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. And it's the responsible men who have to make decisions and to protect society from the trampling and rage of the bewildered herd. Now since it's a democracy they - the herd, that is - are permitted occasionally to lend their weight to one or another member of the responsible class. That's called an election." -- Noam Chomsky