Virunga Lodge Quotes

#1. Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Monica Cruz

#2. I wish I fucking hated you, Evangeline. I'd give anything. I wish I could rid you from my heart, but you are my fucking heart.

Penelope Ward

#3. We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Eric Hoffer

#4. So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution.

Thomas Szasz

#5. Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. I have vowed to heal in the name of all beings. This vow is being fulfilled, Sofia, with the testimony of this book. I have shared this life experience with you in order to help my readers better recognize the power of their own mind.

Phakyab RINPOCHE

#7. door. "Hey, Dillard," Johnny Wayne said suddenly.

Scott Pratt

#8. Do I love Black people?
Yes. As much as I love my own race.
Do Black lives matter?
Of course.
Will I oppress my spirit with White Guilt and faulty notions of White Privilege?
Hell no.
Gotta love yourself before you can love anyone else.

Jonathan Heatt

#9. I just sat there, staring out towards the darkness of the ocean and the starlight flashing off the crests of the waves and knew that we were all part of this bigger whole. That somehow I mattered in the course of things and a part of me would always have left its mark on this world.

Carrie Ryan

#10. An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into
conventional wisdom.

Steven D. Levitt