DCXVII

"The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we...kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok... But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."
- Bill Hicks

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr. Seuss

"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain" - Mr Weasley

"Miracles; events with astronomical odds of occurring like oxygen turning into gold. I have longed to witness such an event and yet I neglect that, in human coupling, millions upon millions of cells compete to create life; for generation after generation until, finally, your mother loves a man... and against unfathomable odds, it's you -- only you that emerged. To distill such a form from all of that chaos; it's like turning air into gold -- a miracle."
- Doctor Manhattan

"New blood joins this earth, and quickly he's subdued. Through constant pained disgrace, the young boy learns their rules. With time the child draws in, this whipping boy done wrong. Deprived of all his thoughts, the young man struggles on and on. He's known a vow unto his own; that never from this day, his will they'll take away."
- Metallica

"Loving thoughts and actions are clearly beneficial for our physical and mental health."
- the Dalai Lama

"Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. "
- Romans 13:10

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr. Seuss

"It is not our abilities that show us who we truly are, it is our choices."
- Albus Dumbledore

I'm sixteen years old.
I'm a writer, and I'm a drawer.
I'm not much of a singer, or a gamer, but I enjoy doing those things.

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