One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
Why does Scrooge love Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Because every buck is dear to him.
We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up. after I finish laughing.
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart
A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand.and touches your heart.
Every person is a new door to a different world.
Nice friendship is like the breathing air, you will never see it but you will always feel its presence.
You don't have to be crazy to be my friend. I'll train you.
You and I are more than friends. We're like a really small gang.
A best friend isn't just someone who's always there for you. It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself.
Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.
To watch a sunset is to connect with the Divine.
Do not spit into the well, you'll get drunk
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
Given the racist and patriarchal patterns of the state, it is difficult to envision the state as the holder of solutions to the problem of violence against women of color. However, as the anti-violence movement has been institutionalized and professionalized, the state plays an increasingly dominant role in how we conceptualize and create strategies to minimize violence against women.
The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.
Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death.
But one, the lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves Drooping all night; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamoured bosom to his ray.
I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.
The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.
Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.
You are a son to me, that to my father I couldn't be. I love you.
If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.
The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.
