Quote #163

"The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil."
~Robert Cormier

Quote #162

"Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips-not because they're bad, but because they're mortal."
~Patricia Raybon

Quote #161

"She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything."
~John Steinbeck 

Quote #160

"As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your spirit will rise and glisten."
~C. JoyBell C.

Quote #159

"Books are humanity in print."
~Barbra W. Tuchman

Quote #158

"It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself."
~Lauren Oliver

Quote #157

"It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil."
~Anthony Burgess

Quote #156

"If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream." 
~David Gemmell

Quote #155

"Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust."
~Primo Levi

Quote #154

"All that we can't say is all that we need to hear."
~Ben Harper

Quote #153

"We are all brothers under the sin-and I, for one, would be willing to sin humanity to prove it."
~Ayn Rand

Quote #152

"In all our searching, the only thing we've found to make the emptiness bearable is each other."
~Carl Sagan

Quote #151

"Humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world."
~Scott Westerfield

Quote #150

"Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create-this is man."
~John Steinbeck 

Quote #149

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
~Ursula K. Le Guin

Quote #148

"There's something in everyone only they know."
~Ben Harper

Quote #147

"Humanity takes itself to seriously. It is the world's original sin."
~Chuck Klosterman

Quote #146

"It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things."
~Donald Miller

Quote #145

"A human being-what is a human being? Everything and nothing."
~Guy de Maupassant

Quote #144

"We have lost our humanity."
~Tahereh Mafi

Quote #143

"People will do amazing things to ensure their survival."
~Patricia Briggs

Quote #142

"Sometimes, I want to be human for you."
~Sarah Rees Brennan

Quote #141

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
~Immanuel Kant

Quote #140

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."
~Henry Adams

Quote #139

"God save us from people who mean well."
~Vikram Seth

Quote #138

"The greatness of humanity is not in being human but in being humane."
~Mahatma Gandhi

Quote #137

"You endure what is unbearable and you bear it."
~Cassandra Clare

Quote #136

"I am no bird; no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
~Charlotte Bronte

Happy 4th Of July!

Independence Day is here! Some two-hundred-or-so years ago, we adopted the Declaration of Independence! We declared ourselves free from the Kingdom of Great Britain! Ladies and gentleman, July 4, 1776, the first birthday of the United States! 

The Declaration of Independence was originally made on July 2, 1776, but Congress revised it, and then everyone signed it on July 4. It is actually still disputed by historians, whether or not is was signed on the second or the fourth. Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, signers or the Declaration and later the only presidents of the United States to sign the Declaration, both coincidentally died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration. Another Founding Father that became a president, however he did not sign the Declaration, James Monroe, died on July 4, 1831, making him the third president in a row to die on Independence Day. The thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, was born on July 4, 1872, so far making him the only president to be born on this memorable day. 

But, you all are probably bored of history! I'm history geek, pardon me, I love it. 

My favorite part of Independence Day has to be the fireworks. I love fire, and I love explosions, though in the last year I have become very jumpy, so they have become rather hard to enjoy when I jump three feet in the air at the sound of them, but I still love them nonetheless. My neighborhood also always gets together to light off fireworks and the kids get to play, and we all have ice cream sundaes, and at some time all the kids ten or over walk to the bridge together to view the fireworks, and it is all very warm and fluffy. 

I really like to think that, sometime today, people sat around a table, and signed something so important to our existence now. It's kind of thrilling, if you think about it that way, huh? They were so lucky, to have such a large say in their own lives. It's a kind of freedom we rarely have now. Take a moment to appreciate what really happened on this day, okay? Right now, just....*closes eyes and motions for you to do the same* Alright, you see? 

Have a fun day with your fireworks and barbecues! 

Quote #135

"I no longer feel any alleigance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself."
~Suzanne Collins

Quote #134

"Human reason can excuse any evil."
~Veronica Roth

Quote #133

"The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected to rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars."
~Bertolt Brecht