Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
Viktor Frankl
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
Viktor Frankl
I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them... The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.
David Bowie
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Søren Kierkegaard
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury
There is a moral obligation. i think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
Chinua Achebe
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Audre Lorde
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.
Sherwood Anderson
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle
Life is an illusion a dream; a bubble; a shadow... Nothing is permanent. Nothing is worthy of anger or dispute. Noting.
attributed to Lord Buddha
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem
Screw the papers, screw the polls, we continue because democracy is in peril. I will not eat the fear being served.
Anonymous
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it.
Faith Ringgold
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.
Paulo Coelho
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
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
It was only when he reentered his own head under the spell of sleep's uninhibited state that the disjointed bits fell into a pattern and the larger idea expressed itself.
Paul Strathern
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
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