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“Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

“There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.”
― Daisaku Ikeda, For the Sake of Peace: A Buddhist Perspective for the 21st Century

“From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change.”
― Pat Allwright, Basics of Buddhism: Key Principles and How to Practice

“There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.”
― Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet

“In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa.”
― Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet

“Personally, I believe it's a poor idea to tell a seven-year-old girl that God's tremendous plan is to incinerate her lungs.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..”
― Andrew Davidson

“It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?”
― Robert A Heinlein

“Drop dead-but first get permit”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

“Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

“Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

“We organized First and Second Volunteer Defense Gunners of Free Luna-two regiments so that First could snub lowly Second and Second could be jealous of First.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

“Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

“A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.”
― Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly

“It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.”
― Daisaku Ikeda

“In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one, always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't catch it. That you're not supposed to catch it. At some point, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your inner contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou