"Protect your vaginas, ladies. Men in positions of power are trying to legislate them." - Alyssa Milano.
He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath. - William Shakespeare, King Lear
"If you can't do anything about circumstances, others' behavior or choices, you can change your own attitude and change your own responses. You can work within...face your own fears with courage. Work on yourself. There is an old Seneca Indian saying, "It's better to cover your own feet with leather than to try and cover all the rocks in the world." You are a victim only to the extent you ignore yourself, your own feelings, your own needs, your own thinking, your own beliefs and values." - Lloyd J. Thomas
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama
"I have three treasures. Guard and keep them. The first is deep love. The second is frugality, and the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world." - Lao Tzu "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." - Unknown "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you." - William Arthur Ward
'For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' - John Greenleaf Whittier
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" - Blaise Pascal
"What fresh hell is is this?" [or "What fresh hell can this be?] -Dorothy Parker For decades I assumed this was Shakespeare. I still think he'd have loved it.
It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle. - E.A. Bucchianeri
"You know my feelings against setting up a federal banking system and turning paper into money. For if we do that. we will forever be slave to the speculators." John Adams 1826.
"Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult chance we can take is to be honest with ourselves." - Walter Anderson
"He sighed at the crushing injustice of having met her too late." - Isabel Allende, Paula: A Memoir I don't know the original context for this, but I certainly know how it relates to my own life.
"Become angry if you must. Feel your rage if it's there. Go numb once in a while, if you must. Then take a chance, and go a little deeper. Go way down deep inside. See what's there. Take a look. Risk being vulnerable. Love yourself and all your emotions. Be as honest with yourself as you can be. Say how you really feel." - Melody Beattie
Cameron Britton, who some may known for his role in Umbrella Academy, in an interview admitted that while he did some stunts, the stunt doubles always did the backflips if they came up. When this was commented on, he said "you gotta pay me more". Brutally honest.
