Chris Colfer - There is nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.
Audre Lorde - My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
Alice Walker - No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
James Baldwin - Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Tennessee Williams - What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
Harvey Fierstein - Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life. Define yourself.
Anderson Cooper - I think being gay is a blessing, and it’s something I am thankful for every single day.
Janet Mock - I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act.
Jason Collins - Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.
Ernest J. Gaines - Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Tammy Baldwin - There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.
Sir Ian McKellen - Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.
Stephen Fry - Gays are not interested in making other people gay…But homophobes are interested in making others homophobic.
Pete Buttigieg - Being gay isn’t something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.
Stan Lee - I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.
Theodore Roosevelt - We must dare to be great, and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toll and sacrifice and high courage.
Leonardo da Vinci - Who sows virtue reaps honor.
John M. McHugh - As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.
Christopher Gadsden - What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.
Robert Reich - True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
Theodore Roosevelt - Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Barack Obama - When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.
Harvey Milk - Hope will never be silent.
Audre Lorde - We are powerful because we have survived.
Zanele Muholi - If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
Tarang Sinha - O greet a lovely morning, we must leave the night behind.
Nabil Toussi - To say goodbye, is to die a little.To say good morning, is a hope for a new sunshine in a cloudy winter.
Henry David Thoreau - "An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
Gautama Buddha - Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Adrian Cronauer - "Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.”
Margaret Thatcher - "A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country’s flag.”
Toby Keith - "He flew a flag out in our yard. Until the day that he died.”
Bill Clinton - We became a great nation also because every time our beliefs and ideals have been threatened, Americans have stepped forward to defend them.
Marcus Aurelius - When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Nancy Pelosi - Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
Jeffrey Fry - I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.
Terri Guillemets - I like my coffee black and my mornings bright.
S. Ajna - The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.
Henry Ford - When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Grandma Moses - Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Beverly Sills - You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Austin Kleon - The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Steve Maraboli - I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, ‘aw shit, he’s up!
Mehmet Murat ildan - The scent of the morning is prepared by the night; the scent of the night is prepared by the day; everything helps everything!
Debasish Mridha - At sunrise, the blue sky paints herself with gold colors and joyfully dances to the music of a morning breeze.
Harriet Beecher Stowe - The longest way must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
Bram Stoker - No man knows until he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
The Alchemist - When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every time the sun rises.
Brian Andreas - Anyone can slay a dragon…but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That’s what takes a real hero.
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