silence

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Victor Hugo

pay

There is no escape -- we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Frank Herbert, Dune

sources

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

truth

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

unless

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

Steve Maraboli

truth

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

ignorance

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

Plato

love

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

shaped

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Lord Buddha

substance

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

William Shakespeare

character

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

existence

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

made for

A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

young

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde

wisest

I am the wisest man alive, for one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Plato

friend

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

dinosaur

I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised.

Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon

above

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.

Mollie Marti

everything

Everything that is, casts a shadow.

Neil Gaiman

abyss

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are unable to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Thomas Merton

happiness

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

occhiolism

Occhiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective in the grandness of the vast scope of the Universe.

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

criticize

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Bob Dylan