Quotable quotes

[Peloso]

 

[opinterph]

“The warrior knows the worth of the wilderness.”

― Lailah Gifty Akita

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“Use your creativity as the first means of preventing danger.”

― Stephen K. Hayes, Wisdom from the Ninja Village of the Cold Moon

 

[opinterph]

“Upon first glance I felt a sense of familiarity with you. Like we had been down this road a thousand times before, why I felt this with a complete stranger I am yet to know but I trust further down the road our chance meeting will make perfect sense.”

― Nikki Rowe

 

[Rand]

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[rareboy]

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,'

the Norwegian Nobel Committee on announcing Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

 

[Alistair]

 

[opinterph]

“To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.”

― Nikola Tesla

 

[Alistair]

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so as long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away.”

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

 

[rareboy]

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[Rand]

I do confess there is one I'm anxious to read ~

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[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Nothing exists by itself alone. We all belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces.”

― Thich Nhat Hanh, At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life

 

[cityboy-stl]

 

[opinterph]

“Action is traction.”

― Rob Liano

 

[opinterph]

“When you speak from the heart, you are not giving a speech, you are communicating.”

― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

 

[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.

Viv Alebertine

 

[Thad1527]

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life; they feed the soul."
-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird