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“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for ….”
- Ernest Hemingway

“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Judge a man by the content of his character, not by the color of his skin.”

- MLK

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

” Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. “
- Mark Twain

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everyone has a “best friend” during each stage of life - only a precious few have the same one.”

“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.”
- Lawrence G. Lovasik

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”
~Hermann Hesse

“People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.”
- William A. Sunday

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
- Calvin Coolidge

“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.”
- Henri Nouwen

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other…Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucius

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly”

“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
- Voltaire

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
- Wayne Dyer

“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
~Sophocles

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
~Friedrich Nietszche

“What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!”
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
~Orson Welles

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
~Plato

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
- Voltaire

“Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
- Voltaire

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
- Albert Einstein

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is only in defeat that we become Christian.”
- Ernest Hemingway ~A Farewell to Arms

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over”
- Ernest Hemingway

“‘I don’t like that sadness,’ he thought. That sadness is bad. That’s the sadness they bet before they quit or betray. That is the sadness that comes before the sell-out.”
- Ernest Hemingway ~For Whom the Bell Tolls

“There isn’t any need to deny everything there’s been just because you are going to lose it.”
- Ernest Hemingway

“There is only now and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you will never get, you will have a good life.”
- Ernest Hemingway

“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It’s been that way all this year. It’s been that way so many times. All of war is that way.”
- Ernest Hemingway

“All thinking men are atheists.”
- Ernest Hemingway ~A Farewell to Arms

“Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.”
- Ernest Hemingway ~For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Life isn’t hard to manage when you have nothing to lose.”
- Ernest Hemingway ~A Farewell to Arms

“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.”
- Ernest Hemingway ~A Farewell to Arms

“Death, though many may welcome its overwhelming embrace, comes not upon any demand or entreaty. It will come when one least expects it.”
- ???

“More he would doubtless have spoken; but here there arose an outcry, sportive, contemptuous, and indignant, that altogether drowned the appeal of the fallen nobleman, insomuch that, casting one look of despair at his own half-burned pedigree, he shrunk back into the crowd, glad to shelter himself under his new-found insignificance.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ excerpt from Earth’s Holocaust

“Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.”
- John Lennon

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it, will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“We avoid risks in Life, so we can make it to death safely.”
- ???

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”
- Washington Irving

“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”
- Iris Murdoch

“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.”

“In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne ~The Haunted Mind

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery”

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
- Voltaire

“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself”
- H.L. Mencken

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
~ William Shakespeare

“For in philosophy it is only being open to objections posed by our critics and antagonists that we are able to avoid becoming the victims of our own prejudices.”

~ Alasdair MacIntyre, ‘The Tasks of Philosophy’

“We face, therefore, a moral crisis as a country and a people. It cannot be met by repressive police action. It cannot be left to increased demonstrations in the streets. It cannot be quieted by token moves or talk. It is a time to act in the Congress, in your State and local legislative body and, above all, in all of our daily lives. It is not enough to pin the blame on others, to say this is a problem of one section of the country or another, or deplore the facts that we face. A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all. Those who do nothing are inviting shame, as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right, as well as reality..”

— John F. Kennedy, Address to the Nation, June 1963

Where did you grow up?
Southeastern USA

Where do you live now?
Southeastern USA

What is the highest level of education you have attained?
Associate's degree. Pursuing bachelor's degree.

What subjects did/do you enjoy the most at school?
Literature, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Criminal Justice

What's your favorite sport or sports?
Tennis, ultimate frisbee

What kinds of jobs have you held? Industries too!
Inspector for construction. Encroachment permit inspector.

What hobbies are you into?
Reading, jogging, watching movies

What causes are you concerned about today?
Complacency, theocracy, student loan debt

If you claim a political party affliation, which is it?
I'm not really into the whole political business

Which religion (if any) do you follow?
I like to study religion, but I do not subscribe to any particular one.