"You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate."
- Israelmore Ayivor
"Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One I’m forced t..."
- Sarah Noffke
"Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth."
- Munia Khan
"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We dro..."
- Anthon St. Maarten
"We recklessly attempt to disguise our ‘greed’ by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as ‘rights’ and ‘privileges.’ Yet, if we dare dress ‘greed’ in an authentic sense of thankfulness, ..."
"One sure way to kill a dream, is to suffocate it with worry."
- TemitOpe Ibrahim
"An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would..."
- Alan Brennert
"Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers"
- Steven Magee