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- The Gift of Happiness
Dawkins proposed that altruism exists to further the organism's genes. On one hand, that can be framed to view humankind as the most selfish of beings. However, is it not beautiful that a person can get the utmost joy from another's happiness? Is it not beautiful that the most effective way of passing on these genes is through altruism and the happiness of others? Sometimes we forget our beauty.
Lestat de Lioncourt
- "A Thin Veil" Lestat de Lioncourt
Know only this, mon cher: you are the only being I trust, and whom I love, above and beyond myself. All my love belongs to you. You are its keeper. A veil will now forever separate our union. But it is a thin veil, and I'm always on the other side, face pressed up against your longing.
Anonymous
They say you never forget your first kiss, but I've forgotten mine. The moment our lips touched, Sarah, everything in our pasts became irrelevant, insignificant.
Naresh
- Universe
The universe is all of space and time and their contents. It comprises all of existence, any fundamental interaction, physical process and physical constant, and therefore all forms of matter and energy, and the structures.
Your Lie in April
- Kaori Miyazono
By exchanging notes... your souls were connected and your hearts overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. At that moment, music transcends words.
The Báb
- Selections from the Writings of The Báb
Oh my God, oh my Lord, oh my Master! I beg Thee to forgive me for seeking any pleasure save Thy love, or any comfort except Thy nearness, or any delight besides Thy good-pleasure, or any existence other than communion with Thee.
MattGeoSnyder
- The Human Spirit
To feel sorry for one's self or to inflict that feeling upon someone else may be the most disgusting thing in all of humanity. Because, for whatever the objective measure may be true, the human spirit has proven itself to be indomitable.
Rou Reynolds
Within mostly the recent two centuries, we as a human species have with increasing speed maneuvered ourselves into what seems like a socioeconomic cul-de-sac as we have built lots of aspects of everyday life around the wrong incentives and thereby made them worse.
Myself
- "I'm a deep thinker!"
I despise people that go on and on about how they are such "deep thinkers." Nine times out of ten, those same people are the ones that only engage in only the most surface level philosophy. They only want to hear themselves talk and sound so important to whoever they're trying to talk to. They don't want to engage or exchange ideas - they just want whoever is around them to gawk and grovel at how intelligent they sound.
Dean Hay
- Presidents - First 15
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan.
Rick Riordan
- With great power...
"With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later." A quote by Nico di Angelo from The Last Olympian: Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
John Steinbeck
- Excerpt from The Pearl
It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.
The Black Crowes
- "Let Me hold your Chemicals"
Boys and things that come by the dozen That ain't nothing but drug store lovin' Hey little thing, let me light you candle 'cause mama I'm sure hard to handle now, gets around.
Hozier
- Would That I
True that I saw her hair like the branch of a tree, a willow dancing on air before covering me. Under cotton and calicoes, over canopy dapple long ago. True that love in withdrawal was the weeping of me, that the sound of the saw must be known by the tree. Must be felled for to fight the cold, I fretted fire but that was long ago.
Roald Dahl
- Lamb to the Slaughter
The violence of the crash, the noise, the small table overturning, helped bring her out of the shock. She came out slowly, feeling cold and surprised, and she stood for a while blinking at the body, still holding the ridiculous piece of meat tight with both hands. All right, she told herself. So I've killed him.
Lestat de Lioncourt
- Lestat -- Interview With the Vampire (2022)
This primitive country has picked you clean. It has shackled you in permanent exile. Every room you enter, every hat you're forced to wear - the stern landlord, the deferential businessman, the loyal son - all these roles you conform to, and none of them your true nature! What rage you must feel as you choke on your sorrow.
Les Miserables
- Little Fall of Rain
The rain that brings you here is heaven blessed. The skies begin to clear, and I'm at rest; a breath away from where you are. I've come home from so far. So don't you fret monsieur Marius, I don't feel any pain. A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now. You're here, that's all I need to know. You will keep me safe, and you will keep me close. And rain will make the flowers grow.
Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
- Communication According to Marcellus the Octopus
It seems to be a hallmark of the human species: abysmal communication skills. Not that any other species are much better, mind you, but even a herring can tell which way the school it belongs to is turning and follow accordingly. Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?
Naresh
- Historians
Traditionally, historians have recorded events of the past, either in writing or by passing on an oral tradition, and attempted to answer historical questions through the study of written documents and oral accounts.
A H Hadley
- Falling in Love
You think I wanted to fall in love with a gladiator?... You think we get to pick? You think they wanted this? If you consider either man your friend, then stop and think about how hard it must be. Connal keeps telling me that he isn't much of a man, and yet he's done nothing but protect all of us in his own way. How is that different from what you do.
