“When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.”-anon
My life closed twice before its close –It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveilA third event to me So huge, so hopeless to conceiveAs these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven,And all we need of hell. -Emily Dickinson
“They came for the Communists, and I didn’t object – For I wasn’t a Communist; They came for the Socialists, and I didn’t object – For I wasn’t a Socialist; They came for the labor leaders, and I didn’t object – For I wasn’t a labor leader; They came for the Jews, and I didn’t
“We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time.” —Jack Kerouac
“Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.”– Phillip Pullman