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Tupac Shakur photo

“I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year, and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club, walking around, lonely. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

Understanding , People , Dance
Tupac Shakur photo

“But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man. When I was young I was quiet, withdrawn. I read a lot, wrote poetry, kept a diary. I watched TV all day. I stayed in front of the television. It was when I was in front of the TV by myself, being alone in the house by myself, having to cook dinner by myself, eat by myself. Just being by myself and looking at TV, at families and all these people out there in this pretend world. I knew I could be part of it if I pretended too, So early on I just watched and emulated … and I just thirsted for that. I thought if I could be and act like those characters, act like those people, I could have some of their joy. If I could act like I had a big family I wouldn't feel as lonely.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

People , World , Family , Way
Tupac Shakur photo

“Marlon Brando is not a gangster-actor, he's an actor. Axl Rose and them are not gangster rock-and-rollers, they're rock-and-rollers right. So I'm a rapper, this is what I do. I'm an artist.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, MTV interview with Tabitha Soren (1995)

Tupac Shakur photo

“I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
Feeling , Suffering
Tupac Shakur photo

“As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
War
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin photo

“The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

"The Evolution of Chastity" (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
Context: The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. Beyond the vibrations with which we are familiar, the rainbow-like range of its colours is still in full growth. But, for all the fascination that the lower shades have for us, it is only towards the "ultra" that the creation of light advances. It is in these invisible and, we might almost say, immaterial zones that we can look for true initiation into unity. The depths we attribute to matter are no more than the reflection of the peaks of spirit.

Love , Truth , Universe
Kurt Cobain photo

“It's OK to eat fish
'Cos they don't have any feelings”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Something In The Way
Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)
Variant: It's OK eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings.

Feeling , Fish
Vincent Van Gogh photo

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”

Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

For Men , Heart , Sea
John Donne photo

“No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

No. 9, The Autumnal, line 1
Elegies
Source: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

Beauty , Beauty , Spring , Autumn
Hildegard of Bingen photo

“We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.”

Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) Medieval saint, prophetise, mystic and Doctor of Church
World , Hope , Light , Parting
Joseph Stalin photo

“It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.”

Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
History
William of Ockham photo

“With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.”

William of Ockham (1285–1349) medieval philosopher and theologian

Variant: The simplest explanation is usually the right one

Erwin Rommel photo

“Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and—above all— apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.”

Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II

Source: Attacks

Men , Exercises , Confidence , Hell
Erwin Rommel photo

“But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.”

Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II

Ch XVI : The Great Retreat, p. 347.
The Rommel Papers (1953)

Stupidity , Courage
Erwin Rommel photo

“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”

Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II

This is cited to to Rommel‎'s Infanterie Greift An [Infantry Attacks] (1937) in World War II : The Definitive Visual History (2009) by Richard Holmes, p. 128, and Timelines of History (2011) by DK Publishing, p. 392, but to George S. Patton, in Patton's Principles : A Handbook for Managers Who Mean It! (1982) by Porter B. Williamson as well as Leadership (1990) by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 47
Disputed
Source: Rommel: In His Own Words

Fight
Erwin Rommel photo

“War without Hate”

Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II

Krieg ohne Haß
In the preamble written by his wife of the 1953 edition published by the publishing house "Heidenheimer Zeitung", she clearly states that all the chapter titles as well as the book title were chosen by the editors, thus not Erwin Rommel himself.

Hate , War
Martha C. Nussbaum photo

“As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.”

Martha C. Nussbaum (1947) American philosopher
Feeling , Imagination , Learning , Time
Egon Schiele photo

“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”

Egon Schiele (1890–1918) austrian painter
Light
Freddie Mercury photo

“You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.”

Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer

As quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_XX-XX-1985_-_Unknown.

Love , World , Success , Loneliness