Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
Bertolt Brecht
i am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Roberto Rossellini
The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help.
Thich Naht Hanh
I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, "I went through something really strange and awful, and it has altered me forever."
Marian Keyes
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of live.
Anais Nin
The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.
Hannah Arendt
Our entire universe is probably in a tiny glass jar somewhere, placed on a shelf in an alien child's room as a science fair project that got a C-.
Anonymous
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
Jules Renard
Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life.
Anonymous
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
Audre Lorde
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
the Talmud
One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration that one is at the mercy of someone else's childhood.
Hanif Kureishi
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one many by logic.
Robert A Heinlein
Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.
Bertolt Brecht
If you don't believe in freedom of speech for people you disagree with, you don't believe in freedom of speech at all.
Noam Chomsky
I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love with the context of community.
bell hook
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
Jules Renard
America feels like a subscription service that keeps raising the price and removing the features.
Brains and Spoons
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein
The one thing we can never get enough of is love And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
Henry Miller
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those are substantial enough to move on.
Criss Jami
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Oscar Wilde
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