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Holding the Universe Together

You only know part of me. I am a universe full of secrets. ~ Lupytha Hermin #Quote

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. ~ Max Eastman #Quote

All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ~ Ho Chi Minh, 1945, as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was created #Quote

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a centre. So we lost our centre and have to find it again. ~ Anais Nin #Quote

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. ~ Ayn Rand #Quote

You don’t get something for nothing. #Proverb

Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ~ Roman Gary #Quote

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. ~ Confucius #Quote


I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart ❤️. ~ Jerome K. Jerome #Quote

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. ~ André Breton #Quote

It never rains, but it pours. #Proverb

Finishing a book 📖 is just like you took a child out in the backyard and shot it. ~ Truman Capote #Quote


Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ~ Erich Fromm #Quote

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about. ~ David Bowie #Quote

A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple so my dreams come true. And my eyes 👁👁 turn red, the sky turns grey. ~ Ludacris, Hopeless #lyrics

Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain. ~ Gary Wright, Dream Weaver #Lyrics

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. ~ J. D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew #Quote

One man’s loss is another man’s gain. #Proverb

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. ~ Henry Miller #Quote

No place is boring if you've had a good night's sleep 🛌 and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~ Robert Adams #Quote

Resist much, obey little. ~ Walt Whitman #Quote

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. ~ Bertrand Russell #Quote

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen. ~ Emma Goldman #Quote

We're awarding all the problems, and we've thrown away the truth, with brothers fighting brothers, the devils on the loose. ~ Commodores, Wake Up Children #lyrics

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. ~ William Randolph Hearst #Quote

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. ~ Igor Stravinsky #Quote

The first guy who ever heard a parrot speak must have freaked. #Quote

Nothing puzzles me more than time ⏳ and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them. ~ Charles Lamb #Quote

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time ⏳. ~ Albert Camus #Quote, Notebooks

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. ~ Henry David Thoreau #Quote

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds 🌤 announce a storm. ~ Albert Camus #Quote

The more things change, the more they stay the same. #Proverb

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ~ Ursula K. LeGuin #Quote

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge #Quote

Butter would not melt in her mouth. #Proverb

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune #Quote

Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future. ~ Ayn Rand #Quote

Procrastination is the thief of time ⏳. #Proverb

Don’t rock the boat 🛥. #Proverb

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing. ~ Hunter S. Thompson #Quote

No man can serve two masters. #Proverb

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up. ~ Chinese Proverb #Quote

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time ⏳. ~ George Patton #Quote

At the heart ❤️ of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being. ~ Friedrich Otto Hertz #Quote

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life. ~ Rumi #Quote

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. #Proverb

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time ⏳ dead. ~ Scottish #Proverb

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. ~ Serge Gainsbourg #Quote

Better late than never. #Proverb

The pressures of society are getting to your brain and forcing you to act weird. ~ The Kinks, #Lyrics Over The Edge

I would have made a good Pope. ~ Richard M. Nixon #Quote

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. ~ Erich Fromm #Quote

A special breed that fills the need is bred to feed the endless greed. ~ Boomtown Rats, Attitude Chicken #Lyrics

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. ~ Christopher Fry #Quote

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. ~ Erich Fromm #Quote


The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. ~ Salvador Dali #Quote

You can't drive straight on a twisting lane. ~ #Proverb

The most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card. ~ Michael Lipsey #Quote


Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. ~ Immanuel Kant #Quote

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson #Quote

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time ⏳; or rather we who read 📚 it are no longer the same interpreters. ~ George Eliot #Quote

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night. ~ Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner #Quote




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