#provoking

It was the first time I had ever seen someone die, and it wasn't what I expected...I stood there waiting for something momentous to happen, for someone to say something profound, but there was nothing...I still had the childish notion that since my life was so important, all lives were so important. Since my death would be so cataclysmic, all deaths would be so cataclysmic. ↗

— Michael J. Collins

#death

Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more? ↗

— Michael J. Collins

#death

Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin? ↗

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

#thought-provoking #death

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him. ↗

— John Green

#humor #thought-provoking #death

If you always do what you've done before, you will always get what you had, not more... ↗

— Shelley K. Wall

#inspirational

Have you ever been in a conflict with someone who thought he was wrong. If you are not wrong, then you will be willing to consider how you might be mistaken. ↗

— Arbinger Institute

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They Were all clad in the same uniform of misery and filth. For all of time, for all of eternity ↗

— James Riordan

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Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank. ↗

— Kay Ryan

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Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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