"There are no new stressful thoughts. They’re all recycled."

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“Everything happens for me, not to me.”

“Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.”

“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”

“You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.”

“If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.”

“What is is. You don’t get a vote. Haven’t you noticed?”

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"Our third American Tragedy is Martin Luther King. King was Mario Cuomo and Stevenson another way. Oh, he had some Roosevelt will to power, but Cuomo has a will to power, and Stevenson had a little, ma…"

— George W. S. Trow

Literature1943–2006

#hope

"Now I’m up at the front and Tall Bloke, Long Suit, is still Sieg-Heiling; women are still jiggling and beseeching. There is an unspoken acknowledgment that I am an interloper, that I am unlike everybo…"

— Russell Brand

Entertainment1975

#knowledge

"I think it’s more difficult to be vegan than gay. I think people have a harder time accepting it; people feel more uncomfortable with a vegan at their dinner table than they do a lesbian. It’s confron…"

— Portia de Rossi

Entertainment1973

#mind

"Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your…"

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy1905–1980

#mind