Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?
Sleep like you can never be deadDream as if you have a soul inside your head
The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.
Imprisoned peace sets the war free
Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world
People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.
If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That's why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.
It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what.", The Guardian, 5 June 2005]
Love is love, even if it is illicit; like light remains light even in the darkness.
Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill.
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
I hope that I__ a good man ... it would be enough.
You are sheep among wolves; be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.
When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.
For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than in a straight line, These rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are are of two kinds, either centrifugal,vziz.>the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal,viz.> the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached their original place, they remain at rest.