If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

- George Orwell

"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We've come too far
to give up who we are

- Daft Punk

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

― Thich Nhat Hanh

I got a girlfriend that's better than that
Everyone's getting involved
As we get older and stop making sense
You won't find her waiting long
Stop making sense
I got a girlfriend that's better than that and nothing is better that this, is it?

- Talking Heads

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

- Hugh Mackay

"I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth."

- Oscar Wilde

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

- Dalai Lama

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

- Maurice Sendak