How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
-A Spiritual Leader
God’s purpose in creating the universe was to feel happiness when He saw the purpose of goodness fulfilled in the Heavenly Kingdom, which the whole of Creation, including man, could have established.
-Scriptures
Hatred and contempt, be it for a thing or a person, has no place in the 'Hindu'
religion... Whereas these so-called Hindu saints are building number of ashrams
by inculcating the unnecessary feeling of 'sinfulness' in you. What kind of Hindu
are you and what kind of saints are these?
-Deep Trivedi
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
Scholars who incessantly contemplate acquiring strength and knowledge should also consider it their moral duty to impart knowledge to the ignorant, so that they can develop their mental faculties. This would automatically lead to the latter’s self-development and spiritual progress.
-Vedas
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz
