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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 29-07-2025
“Hearts are wild creatures. That's why our ribs are cages.”
Imam Ali
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 & have to find it again.”
Anais Nin
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 30-07-2025
“Remember: there is nothing narural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it's the result of an economic & political system that values wealth & power over human dignity & justice. It doesn't have to be this way.”
Robert Reich
“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
Arthur C Clarke.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 31-07-2025
“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticise.”
Voltaire
“It is a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-08-2025
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents & everyone is writing a book.”
Cicero
“I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
Robin Williams
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 02-08-2025
“You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.”
Robin Williams
“We get to choose who we let in to our weird little worlds.”
Robin Williams
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 03-08-2025
“Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.”
Robin Williams
“People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.”
Robin Williams
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 04-08-2025
“All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul.”
Robin Williams
“You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it.”
Robin Williams
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 05-08-2025
“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”
Groucho Marx
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 06-08-2025
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
Alexander the great
“Imagination & fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
Simone Weil
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 07-08-2025
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
Mary Twain
“I have nature & art & poetry, & if that is not enough, what is enough?”
Vincent Van Gogh
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 08-08-2025
“People speak sometimes about the 'bestial cruelty' of man, but that is terribly unjust & offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, artistically cruel.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.”
Desmond Tutu
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 09-08-2025
“Satire is the weapon of the powerless. And I wielded it with a smirk & a martini.”
Peter Cook
“Please don't teach your empathic kids to 'toughen up' for the world. Teach them how to adapt to the world in a way that honours how they are made. The world needs their empathy.
Nate Postlethwaite
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 10-08-2025
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the the secret of tyranny is keeping them ignorant.”
Robespierre
“The King must die so that the country can live.”'
Robespierre
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 25-08-2025
Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucious
“Life isn't about finding yourself,.Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 26-08-2025
Progress is impossible without change, & those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Frederick Douglass
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 27-08-2025
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
John F Kennedy
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, & the wisdom to know the difference.”
Reinhold Niebuhr
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 28-08-2025
“We know they are lying
They know they are lying
They know we know they are lying
We know they know we know thay are lying
But they are still lying.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
There was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good she was very very good, & when she was bad she wore this divine nightdress of rose coloured Mousseline de soie, with frothy valenciennes lace.
Dorothy Parker
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 29-08-2025
“Please, no matter how we advance technologically,please don't abandon the book.There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.”
Patti Smith
“Never argue with someone whose TV is bigger than their booksehlf.”
Emilia Clarke
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 30-08-2025
“We have become the impatient species,too busy to let nature replenish itself & too puffed up with our own sense of importance to acknowledge our utter dependence on its generosity.”
David Suzuki
“You cannot negoiate with people who say what's mine is mine & what's yours is negotiable.”
JFK
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 31-08-2025
“When I was an unhappy little boy,going to the library changed my life.It may even have saved it. Amazing as it sounds, literature can do that for you. Books are your ticket to the whole world. They're a free ticket to the entire earth.”
Billy Connolloy
“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity.
A .Edward Newton