fifty-one

"Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable."
— Barbara Boxer

fifty

"Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind."
— Jeanette Winterson

forty-nine

"People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
— Neil Gaiman

forty-eight

"I would have died believing that he [Michael Jackson] was an evil, child molesting, freak of nature... It actually hurts me a little bit that I “believed” those things up to the time I started “to wake up”. I’m sorry to Michael for my past thoughts. After everything I’ve read and seen the past year it’s undeniable that this man was murdered. It just absolutely turns my stomach and makes me sick that these “elite” people will probably get away this... Until the day they meet their maker."
— Anonymous comment on VigilantCitizen.com

The reason I put this here is because it touched my heart so deeply. I have never heard or read that an MJ-basher realized they were wrong and felt bad about it, and even apologized... I think it's the sweetest, kindest gesture I've ever seen made towards MJ.

forty-seven

"Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people."
— Martin Luther King

forty-six

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
— Lao Tzu

forty-five

"He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing."
— Sherman Alexie

forty-four

"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."
— Confucius

forty-three

"I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day."
— Charles Dickens

forty-one

"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them"
— Rabindranath Tagore

forty-two

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."
— Madonna

forty

"A fan can disagree and not like something, but someone being hateful is not a fan of MJ. It goes against everything he stood for."
— Unknown

thirty-nine

"With friendship it doesn’t matter how long you’ve known each other, or how many fights you got into. What matters is who said “I’ll be there for you” and who proved it."
— Unknown

thirty-eight

"Don’t waste your time asking why such an amazing thing could happen to you, just let it happen. Don’t doubt that you could be loved, just let yourself be loved. If you don’t believe you’re worthy of anyone’s time, then you won’t be. Take yourself seriously and others will too. ‘Why’ is a wasteful question. Why? Because that’s the way it is."
— Unknown