“If women want rights more than they got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” ― Sojourner Truth     “I’m not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” ― Sojourner Truth     “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t…

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard     “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” ― Soren Kierkegaard     “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” ― Søren Kierkegaard     “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ― Søren Kierkegaard     “People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.” ― Søren Kierkegaard     “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be…

“The friendship that can cease has never been real.” ― Saint Jerome     “The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.” ― Saint Jerome     “The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom” St. Jerome” ― St. Jerome   “Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.” ― St. Jerome   “Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?” ― Saint…