#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

The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us. ↗

— Jack McDevitt

#thought-provoking #love

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

— John Green

#humor #thought-provoking #death

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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How do you explain to your friend's mother why a night out with friends has left her daughter dying from an ecstasy overdose? ↗

— A.C. Flanagan

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...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy. ↗

— Rachel Joyce

#love