“Love with your heart, but use your head for everything else.” — CaptainDisillusion, YouTube
“Rather than form nations that looked ever backward into history with a dangerous nostalgia, we chose to look forward to a greatness none of our many nations and peoples had ever known.” — Ambassador Martin Kimani, in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
“Slipping into an inquiring frame of mind is nonnegotiable.” — Doug Buehl, Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines
“We don’t have to be heros. We get to be.” — Alex Haraus, Instagram
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.” — Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“We are a way for the universe to know itself.” — Carl Sagan
“If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true.” — Johnathon Foster, on journalism
“Sometimes, you just gotta do stuff, y’know? You just do things, sometimes its good sometimes its bad. But if you do nothing its always nothing.” — William Osman, YouTube
“I couldn’t do much to help those who came to help me. But I knew that a lot of people were willing to do all in their power. It gave me courage. […] Tell them I am not going to give up. Tell them I am going to fight and be patient and never forget them.” — Floyd Collins
“Let me give you some advice. You should maybe care a little less about your grades, and a little more about what you learn.” — Yurii Shylnov, in one of his lectures at Illinois Tech in response to a student
“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.” — Che Guevara
“It is nice of them to consider me a hero. I don’t know that I am. I didn’t believe I had done something extraordinary. I was simply doing my job and I did it well.” — Stanislav Petrov
“Harden not your hearts.” — Psalm 95
“Nature is a fierce and unyielding force, raw and relentless, but it is elegant. It rushes nothing and achieves all” — lifeundrglass, Instagram
“We’re not our bodies, we’re the decisions we make. The lives we change, the people we love, or who love us.” — Donald, Invincible
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
“It’s better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
“I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.” — John Brown, Letter to his Wife