

“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
― Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages
― Two Thousand Kisses a Day: Gentle Parenting Through the Ages and Stages

“How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is the love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.”
― The Art of Pokemon, The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!
― The Art of Pokemon, The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!

“I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.”
― DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore
― DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore

“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.”
― Faust, First Part
― Faust, First Part
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