My Favorite Quotes

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus (via ageofreason)

— 3 days ago with 33 notes

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

Will Rogers (via quote-book)

— 4 days ago with 644 notes

"

Let me get this straight. You think the Creator of the Universe cares personally about your life, and that you know, with absolute certainty, what he wants for all of humankind.

While I think that we’re basically alone, not very special, and are just fumbling through our random existence trying to do the best we can.

And I’m the arrogant one?

"

-Daniel Miessler (via friendlyatheist)

— 2 weeks ago with 37 notes

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

C.S. Lewis (via quote-book)

— 2 weeks ago with 1,840 notes

"‘Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.’"

Oscar Wilde (via quote-book)

— 3 weeks ago with 1,044 notes

"To the privileged, equal treatment feels like discrimination."

Adam Serwer, The American Prospect (via abbyjean) (via robot-heart-politics) (via goodreasonnews)

— 3 weeks ago with 552 notes

"45% are trapped in the waiting room of a Jiffy Lube, 7% are white people who just enjoy watching Fox News in blackface, 25% said Glenn Beck’s name three times in the mirror and his show appeared, and the remaining 23% is Juan Williams."

Stephen Colbert, breaking down the 1.38% of Fox News viewers that are black. (via itslikeyouknowwhatever) (via fuckyeahstephencolbert) (via stfuconservatives)

— 4 weeks ago with 146 notes

"Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don’t have all the answers to think that they do."

Bill Maher | Religulous (via countryhell) (via schbank) (via jlamere)

— 1 month ago with 13 notes

"Our ignorance is God; what we know is science."

Robert G. Ingersoll (The Age of Reason) (via ageofreason)

— 1 month ago with 30 notes

"If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ‘God is crying’. And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ‘Probably because of something you did’."

Jack Handey (via Age of Reason Forums) (via ageofreason)

— 1 month ago with 26 notes

"Knowledge that takes you not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance"

The Sufi (via http://www.ted.com/talks/elif_shafak_the_politics_of_fiction.html)

— 1 month ago

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

Bob Dylan

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— 1 month ago

"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."

Napoleon

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