Category: Daily Germ

“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.” -Isabel Allende

“I’ve put up with too much, too long, and now I’m just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally …

“Volunteer some hours. Focus on something outside yourself. Devote a slice of your energies towards making the world suck less every week.” -Shonda Rhimes

“Make not your thoughts your prisons.” -William Shakespeare

“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.” -Roger Ebert

“There are poets who sing you to sleep and poets who ready you for war and I want to be both.” -Ashe Vernon

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” -Kurt Vonnegut

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” -George R.R. Martin

“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.” -Samuel Beckett