- "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” Oscar Wilde
- “Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” Edwin Land
- “There is no love that is not an echo.” Theodor Adorno
- "Do one thing everyday that scares you." Eleanor Roosevelt
- "The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic." Rod Serling
- “This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.” Charlie Chaplin
- “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.” Charlie Chaplin
- “But your ways of being in the world are not set in stone. It’s more like they are set in sand. Your childhood is not your fate. Your natural disposition is not your fate. The neighborhood you grew up in is not your fate. The research shows this clearly. Nothing that has happened in your life precludes you from connecting with others, from thriving, or from being happy.” Robert Waldinger, MD and Marc Schulz, PhD
- “Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.” Joseph Conrad
- “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” Marie Curie
- “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner
- “I never quite became the monster I wanted to be. I feel mostly monstrous as I more become myself. Because the more you become yourself, the more it disturbs other people.” Emil Ferris (New York Times 2017)
- “The creative adult is the child who has survived.” Ursula K. Le Guin
- “What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?” Ursula K. Le Guin
- “Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” Mohsin Hamid
- “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” Aldous Huxley
- “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” Frida Kahlo
- “...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.” - Fredrich Nietzsche
- “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” - Fredrich Nietzsche
- “I hate victims who respect their executioners” - Jean Paul Satre
- “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” Mark Twain
- “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” Mark Twain
- "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." Mark Twain
- “Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.” Kurt Vonnegut
- “Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.” Kurt Vonnegut
- “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” Howard Zinn
- "The sad thing in America is sometimes reality is entertainment"[MYHOODURHOOD2 - Youtube]
- "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." George Carlin
- “What task in life is waiting for me?” Viktor E. Frankl
- “The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.” Viktor E. Frankl
- “Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of life.” Haruki Murakami
- “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.” Rumi
- "We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." Dr. Seuss
- “Give up defining yourself-to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as a field of conscious Presence.” Eckhart Tolle
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