"Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better."

“But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever...”

Source : David Zindell (2017). “The Wild”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.”

“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”

“There are companies like Facebook that wield tremendous power over how Americans understand the world. Do they have a social responsibility now? That's the question we're only beginning to ask. Literature still has this power to do things that other forms of media don't have. The process of reading and writing and having arguments about ideas is valuable. I'm afraid it's something we're losing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts and destroys their homes as with pestilence and fire; it kills savagely, cruelly, more than a hundred thousand of them every year; robbing them first and driving wives and children to rain and despair.”

“Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.”

“In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.”

Source : "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, January 5, 2010.

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”