Favourite Quotes

[grokit]

"My fellow Americans, when the next terrorist attack happens -- and it will happen, we all know that -- and after the tragedy is over, amidst the death and destruction that might have been prevented, you will see Donald Trump acting quickly to blame everyone but himself. He will suspend constitutional rights. He will round up anyone he deems a threat. He will declare war, and his Republican Congress will back him."

~ Michael Moore​

 

[Melting Pot]

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[grokit]

"As of 2015, the U.S. ranks 29th out of 43 countries for life expectancy, lagging behind countries like Chile, Costa Rica, Slovenia, Korea and the Czech Republic. In 2014, the U.S. ranked 28th.

Moreover, according to Dr. Peter Muennig, a professor of health policy and management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, this decline in life expectancy is a "uniquely American phenomenon." No other developed countries experienced this decline.

Dr. Jiaquan Xu, the report's lead author, noted that the decline in life expectancy is "primarily caused by a rise in several categories of preventable deaths, again highlighting the failure of the American health care system to properly address the root causes of chronic disease."

https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.htm
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...-opioid-role-american-declining-lifespan.aspx

 

[OldOyler]

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[OldOyler]

 

[6079Smith]

 

[grokit]

"Peace to the peoples who suffer because of the economic ambitions of the few,
because of the sheer greed and the idolatry of money, which leads to slavery."

~ Pope Francis, yesterday from St. Peter's Basilica​

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[grokit]

"No matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”

~ Carrie Fisher
​

 

[momofthegoons]

“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
~JRR Tolkein

 

[BD9]

Thanks to @invertedisdead for leading me to Fernando Pessoa.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7816.Fernando_Pessoa

“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
― Fernando Pessoa

 

[Melting Pot]

 

[invertedisdead]

@BD9
My favorite poet. His works are brilliant, you can't help but feel his pain. I think this is my favorite of his, short and (bitter)sweet.

“I know nothing and my heart aches" - Fernando Pessoa

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[invertedisdead]

"Love insists the loved love back" - Dante

 

[ilsasta]

 

[grokit]

"Love insists the loved love back" - Dante

"Love doesn't exist unless it co-exists."

~ grokit 30 years ago​

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[Melting Pot]