Ideas

"The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another."          - Quentin Crisp ...

"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us." - Oscar Wilde ...

"You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were ...

“A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.” - Leszek Kolakowski ...

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." - Vladimir Nabokov ...

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." - John Irving ...

"Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?" - Zora Neale Hurston ...

God expects His people to do the ridiculous so He can do the miraculous." ​ - Mother Angelica ...

"Break down the barriers of super­ficiality and fear!" - Pope Francis ...

“...before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” - Atticus, To Kill a Mockingbird ...