The Midnight Library Thoreau Quotes

#1. A Christian who does not protect creation, who does not let it grow, is a Christian who does not care about the work of God; that work that was born from the love of God for us ... And this is the first response to the first creation: protect creation, make it grow.

Pope Francis

#2. This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values ...

Laurie Halse Anderson

#3. We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

Idries Shah

#4. Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

James Brown

#5. The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Eckhart Tolle

#6. People adapt to you. Don't worry, you can't alter what they think of you to any great degree, and by the same token what they think of you can't alter you.

Carrie Fisher

#7. I'll have your fathers make something special," Holly said serenely. "If it turns out we don't like him, I'll cook the next meal for him.

Maya Banks

#8. Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.

William R. Polk

#9. Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.

Louise Bogan