Apathetic

I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic.
--Sacha Baron Cohen

Useless

Fear is a useless emotion. It prevents everything from happening. It's like closing every door and every window to your opportunity for surpassing anything in existence.
--Melody Gardot

Be Bold

But you know what? Nothing is sure in this world. If you're going to be bold for anything, be bold for love.
--Tommy Tomlinson

The Doorstep

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
--Thomas Merton

Don't Wish

And everything that's good right now,
Well, I don't wish for it to last.
--Beth Orton

Questioning

An unquestioned faith is not faith but rote recitation. The opposite of such questioning is not deep belief but arrested development.
--Garry Wills

Silence

Just as clean air makes it possible to breathe, silence makes it possible to think.
--Matthew B. Crawford

Sampling

If you don't believe in sampling theory, next time you go to the doctor and he wants to take a little blood, tell him to take it all.
--Gian Fulgoni

Temptation

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
--Thomas Merton

Voluntary

Another article stating that "Tea Party" types or Republicans are anti-comunitarian. This is not true. We simply want our "community" to be our family, our church, our clubs, our neighbors--voluntary associations. Not the forced community of the state.
--Stephen Connecticut

Denying

No matter what we do--if white people keep, for the most part, seeing this as a black person's problem and see black people as the problem, all while denying race has anything to do with it, nothing is going to change.
--Peter Mosley

Somewhat

I have seen people change. They are not born again but they change, somewhat.
--Amos Oz

Sane

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.
--Donald Wood Winnicott

Wonder

Secular people don't believe in anything supernatural, but that doesn't render us sterile souls. But because religion has constructed the language with which we describe existential wonder, it is almost like that is not our territory. But it most certainly is.
--Phil Zuckerman

Teacher

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
--Pema Chödrön

Now

Selma is not just about commemorating the past. Selma is now.
--President Barack Obama

Respectful

It's possible to disagree and remain respectful, and even to love and admire the people with whom you disagree. This is not pollyanna pie-in-the-sky naivete. It's a basic human reality.
--Michael Schur

Quality

You should always pay attention to quality. A coffin, for instance, should last a lifetime.
--Kurt Tucholsky

Knowledge

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
--Samuel Johnson

Reverence

This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can't grasp it. And it's meant to be that way, do y'know. And there's where our reverence should come in.
--Henry Miller

Tribe

Every tribe, no matter how generous, benign, loving, and charitable, nonetheless looks down on all other tribes.
--E. O. Wilson

Live Long and Prosper

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
--Leonard Nimoy (his last post on Twitter)