- "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
- "There is no friend as loyal as a book." Ernest Hemingway
- “All things truly wicked start from innocence.” Ernest Hemingway
- “Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.” Ernest Hemingway
- “And yet we judge the drug addict because we actually see that they are just like us and we don’t like that. So we say, “You are different from us, you are worse than we are.” Gabor Mate
- “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” e.e cummings
- It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." Leonardo da Vinci
- “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Albert Einstein
- “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” Albert Einstein
- "It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliott
- “Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.” Naguib Mahfouz
- "You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you." Dan Millman
- "If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you." A.A. Milne
- "People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings, most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. Its all in how you carry it; that's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain." Jim Morrison
- "A friend is someone who gives you the complete freedom to be yourself." Jim Morrison
- “People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.” Jim Morrison
- "Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence." Jim Morrison
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