Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
-Seneca the Younger
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Let love of the brethren continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.
-Socrates
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
-Helen Keller
For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.