- “As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary.” — Jim Butcher
- “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.” — Anatole France
- “Your mind is not a cage. It’s a garden. And it requires cultivating.” — Libba Bray
- “Listen to many, speak to a few.” — William Shakespeare
- “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” ― Charles Bukowski
- “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” ― George Bernard Shaw
- “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “When something bad happens you have three choices: You can either let it define you, destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.” ― Unknown
- “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” ― Marcus Aurelius
- “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” ― Walter Bagehot
- “I don't know how people can get so anti-something. Mind your own business, take care of your affairs, and don't worry about other people so much.” ― Betty White
- “You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.” ― James Baldwin
- “People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.” ― Plato
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ― Maya Angelou
- “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” — Eckhart Tolle
- “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” — Oscar Wilde
- “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” — Mahatma Ghandi
- “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.” — Buddha
- “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” — Elbert Hubbard
- “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norman Cousins
- “I wish they would only take me as I am.” — Vincent van Gogh
- “Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” — Plato
- “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.” — Lawrence Clark Powell
- “If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you.” — Arab Proverb
- “We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it.” — Iyanla Vanzant
- “Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.” — St. Jerome
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Khalil Gibran
- “We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.” — Confucius
- “Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” — Jane Austen
- “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” — Rosanne Barr
- “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” — Kurt Vonnegut
- “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.” — Maya Angelou
- “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” — Proverbs 4:23
- “My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked, a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, when I think about myself.” — Maya Angelou
- “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” — Oscar Wilde
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” — Dalai Lama
- “The highest form of wisdom is kindness.” — The Talmud
- “You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” — Confucius
- “(Women) are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed.” — Ellen Von Unwerth
- “Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.” — Mahatma Ghandi
- “You only lose what you cling to.” — Buddha
- “Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.” — Sam Stevens
- “I love talking about nothing, it's the only thing I know anything about.” — Oscar Wilde
- “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” — 2 Cor. 4:7-9
- “Those people who hate you, envy your freedom.” — Santosh Kalwar
- “Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Piscasso
- “By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in that person.” — Sri Chinmoy
- “I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” — Augusten Burroughs
- “When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.” — Neale Donald Walsch
- “Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act.” — Paulo Coelho
- “Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.” — Don Miguel Ruiz
- “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking
- “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and be eaten alive.” — Audre Lorde
- “By being too sensitive, I have wasted my life.” — Arthur Rimbaud
- “Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.” — Charles Cook
- “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity.” — Edvard Munch
- “Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.” — Neale Donald Walsch
- “I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to me.” — Hunter Reveur
- “Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.” — Edgar Allan Poe
- “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.” — Virginia Woolf
- “It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- “My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell.” — Bassui
- “I never fall apart because I never fall together.” — Andy Warhol
- “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” — Virginia Woolf
- “I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.” — Elizabeth Berg
- “To a great mind, nothing is little.” — Sherlock Holmes
- “Do not settle for less than exactly what you want. Your heart’s desires are there for a reason. Chase them. Pursue them relentlessly. Do not lose sight of your goals. They are your very reason for being.” — Franki Durbin
- “When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.” — Andy Warhol
- “I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.” — Charles Bukowski
- “When you really pay attention, everything is your teacher.” — Ezra Bayda
- “Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.” — Alan Cohen
- “Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” — Camile Pissarro
- “You survived the abuse. You’re going to survive the recovery.” — Olivia Benson
- “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” — Victor Hugo
- “For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.” — Ivan Panin
- “Once we become aware of our issues and challenges, we become accountable to do something about it.” — Iyanla Vanzant
- “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller
- “Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.” — Paulo Coelho
- “If the full moon loves you, why worry about the stars?” — Tunisian Proverb
- “People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.” — John Lennon
oct 17 2012 ∞
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