Personally

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally.
--Brené Brown

Terrible

We are terrible animals. And I think our planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us and should.
--Kurt Vonnegut

Instinct

Instinct is really accumulated experience.
--Nate Silver

Together, Apart

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
--Pema Chödrön

Take What's Left

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.
--Marcus Aurelius

The Sun

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.
--Virginia Woolf

Thoughts

Once you learn to keep yourself from voicing unwelcome thoughts, you forget how to think them--how to think freely at all--and ideas perish at conception.
--George Packer

Wisdom

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
--E.O. Wilson

Speed

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
--Aldous Huxley

Surrender

The South surrendered at Appomattox, and the North has been surrendering ever since.
--Albion Winegar Tourgée

Paradox

All truth is a paradox.
--Anne Lamott

Liberty

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor.
--Abraham Lincoln

Citizens

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
--Abraham Lincoln

Aim Above

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
--Henry David Thoreau

Schedule

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order--willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. Each day is the same, so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern.
--Annie Dillard

Understand

The great advantages of a mutual language and a shared culture fail us daily in our efforts to understand our own kind.
--Dean Koontz

Neighbor

Christians would all say "love your neighbor as yourself." They just can't agree on what love entails and who your neighbor is.
--Serene Jones (president of Union Theological Seminary)

Fates

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil.
--William James

Blessed

I am comforted by the fact that the Supreme Court has blessed corporations with souls: Now they may be damned.
--Tom Bpston

A Fool

Making a fool of yourself for love is ultimately about you, how much you have to give and the distances you will travel to keep your heart wide open when everything around you makes you feel like slamming it shut and soldering it closed.
--Veronica Chambers

Dogma

All the ideologies and religions have their own answers for the big questions, but these are usually bound as a dogma to some kind of tribe. Religions in particular feature supernatural elements that other tribes--other faiths--cannot accept.
--E. O. Wilson

Battles

Our battles with our habits speak of dreams yet to become real.
--Mary Oliver