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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

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

“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

“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

“You learned the dry-mouthed, fear-purged purging ecstasy of battle and you fought that summer and that fall for all the poor in the world against all tyranny, for all the things you believed in and for the new world you had been educated into.”
- Ernest Hemingway ~For Whom the Bell Tolls

“In his mind he was commanding troops; he had the right to interfere and this he believed to constitute command.”
- Ernest Hemingway ~For Whom the Bell Tolls

“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 ~ exerpt from Earth’s Holocaust

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

“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

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

Where did you grow up?
A rural area

Where do you live now?
A rural area

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

What subjects did/do you enjoy the most at school?
English Literature, British Literature, History

What's your favorite sport or sports?
Indifferent

What kinds of jobs have you held? Industries too!
Customer service, technician

What hobbies are you into?
Gaming, reading, exploration

What causes are you concerned about today?
Secularism, Theocracy

If you claim a political party affliation, which is it?
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Which religion (if any) do you follow?
I haven't any religion