“We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.” — Marilyn Monroe Source: from “Last Talk With a Lonely Girl: Marilyn Monroe” by Richard Meryman, published in Life magazine, August 17, 1962
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Marilyn Monroe Quote
“Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer.” — Marilyn Monroe Source: from “Last Talk With a Lonely Girl: Marilyn Monroe” by Richard Meryman, published in Life magazine, August 17, 1962
Marilyn Monroe Quote
“I don’t understand why people aren’t a little more generous with each other.” — Marilyn Monroe Source: from “Last Talk With a Lonely Girl: Marilyn Monroe” by Richard Meryman, published in Life magazine, August 17, 1962
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
“Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: From the 1841 book Essays: First Series, “Art”
Martin Luther King Quote
“An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Source: from the sermon “Conquering Self-Centeredness” given at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, AL, August 11, 1957
Oscar Wilde Quote
“Cultivated idleness seems to me to be the proper occupation for man.” — Oscar Wilde Source: letter to the Editor of the Scots Observer, 13 August 1890 (sent from 16 Tite St., Chelsea)
Oscar Wilde Quote
“Complex people waste half their strength in trying to conceal what they do. Is it any wonder they should always come to grief?” — Oscar Wilde Source: letter to Robert Ross, 6 April 1897 (sent from Reading Gaol)
Oscar Wilde Quote
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde Source: 1891 essay The Soul of Man under Socialism