“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
"Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do."
- J.D. Salinger
Love
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
- J.D. Salinger
Love
"You cannot stop loving your friend because he’s dead, especially if he was better than anyone alive, you know?"
- J.D. Salinger
Love
"I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse."
- J.D. Salinger
Awareness
"Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
- J.D. Salinger
Adversity
"What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man."
Morality
"Whether a human being is good or bad, right or wrong, can only be determined based on circumstances."
Morality
"Always let your conscience be your guide."
- Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio
Morality
"To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests."
- Matthew Scully
Morality
"When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music."
- Ellen G. White
Morality