Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice - Gary L. Francione

But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine - Jack Johnson

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. - Marilyn Monroe

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. - Brian Tracy

The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to. - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life. - Tina Fey, Bossypants

Veel van wat aanvankelijk alleen in de verbeelding bestaat, wordt werkelijkheid. - Arthur Japin, Een schitterend gebrek

If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about. - Robin S. Sharma

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones - Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy

Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another. - Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship - Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV

People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love. - Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive? - Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen

For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others

The hand on my hair moved to my back, and I realized someone was singing softly. The voice was familiar, and something about it made my chest ache. Well, that was to be expected. Angels' songs would be awfully poignant. I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you... the voice crooned. I frowned. Was that really an appropriate song for the Heavenly Host to be-- - Rachel Hawkins, Spell Bound

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. - W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure. - John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. - P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty... - Robert M. Pirsig