It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The Bible
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It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCDo you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904