Happy 42 Birthday Quotes & Sayings

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness. — John Henry Cox

No one can describe reality.
You must experience it, see it, feel the whole atmosphere of it — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die. — Mary Antin

She'd trained herself for so long not to want or to hope or to wish, that she had a hard time pinning down something to ask for. — Wendy Wunder

The first step to unselfish love is the recognition that our love may be deluded. We must first of all purify our love by renouncing the pleasure of loving as an end in itself. As long as pleasure is our end, we will be dishonest with ourselves and with those we love. We will not seek their good, but our own pleasure. — Thomas Merton

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder

If I could repeat it,
people passing by would be enlightened and go free. — Rumi