memories

Memories that come between waking and sleeping in the somnolent half light of morning.

Tracy Hamby

best

 

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

everything

 

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

Andre Gide

they

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity.

James Baldwin

books

 

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.

Wole Soyinka

lie

 

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

evil

 

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

power

 

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

reality

 

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Ayn Rand

nothing

 

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Elliot

truth

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

purpose

 

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set a person free from the ghosts and imprisoning effects of the past.

Harry Guntrip

solve

 

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

sin

 

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Aldous Huxley

shows

 

You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows. Yes, it shows.

Harry Nilsson, Without You

masses

 

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They demand illusions.

Sigmund Freud

believe

 

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

compassion

 

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Anais Nin

start

 

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka

live

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Iris Murdoch