- "the surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." - friedrich nietzsche
- "too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - leo buscaglia
- "no man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without getting bewildered as to which one may be the true." - nathaniel Hawthorne the scarlet letter
- "Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink." - charles bukowski
- "I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers but hold up a ship." - Michelle Williams
- "Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child’s blind faith. I wept because my eyes were open to reality—to Henry’s selfishness, June’s love of power, my insatiable creativity which must concern itself with others and cannot be sufficient to itself. I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence." -Henry and June by Anais Nin
- “It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.” -W. Sommerset Maugham
jun 8 2010 ∞
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