To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception: it is an eternal
loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or eternity. - Soren Kierkegaard
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that
most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is
nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure
around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some
of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own
fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Marianne Williamson
in A Return to Love
I beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your
heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or
books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which
could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And
the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday
far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live you way
into the answer... - Rainer Marie Rilke
The aim of life is to live, and to live means
to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely, aware. - Henry Miller
The purpose of live is to live it, to taste experience to the
utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer
experience. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Live to the point of tears. - Camus
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the
moments that take our breath away. - Anonymous
Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does
with what happens to him. - Aldus Huxley
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally
faithful to himself. - Thomas Paine
Men I find to be a sort of beings badly constructed...having more
pride and even pleasure in killing than in begetting one another. For without
blush they assemble in great armies at noonday to destroy and when they have
killed as many as they can, they exaggerate the number to augment the fancied
glory; but they creep into corners or cover themselves with the darkness of
night when they mean to beget, as being ashamed of virtuous action. - Benjamin
Franklin
When I learned nothing could save me, I learned nothing could damn
me either. - Donna Minkowitz in Ferocious Romance
Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too
much." This could be on my tombstone. What I feel intensely and always
respond to is the aloneness of others, their needs. Which love makes the great
closeness, the fraternal, the friendship, the passion, the intellectual
harmony, the tender one, the devotion, the lover, the brother, the husband, the
father, the son, the friend. So may kinds of fusions!
What is it that annihilates the loneliness? - Anais
Nin from The Diary of Anais
Nin, Vol. Two, 1934-1939
If I love you, what business is it of yours? - Johann Wolfgang
Goethe
When someone says "how-do-you-do" just say that you
didn't. - Eeyore from Eeyore's
Gloomy Little Instruction Book
I believe in marriage, but not the dogma that we've made out of
it. You see, we make everything rigid, and it's all out of fear; we make these
rigidities, and then we can't live in them and we suffocate in them. We make
different patterns of lives and to get security we give up our freedom. - Anais Nin
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -Johann
Wolfgang van Goethe
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing,
and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. - Thomas
Jefferson
There is no darkness but ignorance. - William Shakespeare
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for
happiness. - Mary Wollstonecraft
The worth of a book is what you can carry away from it. - James
Bryce
Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans. - A.
J.
A man who dares waste one hour of his life has not discovered the
value of life. - Charles Darwin
May you live all the days of your life. -
Johnathan Swift
Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the
fact. - William James
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
You may satisfy all your senses and still not be satisfied. -
Edward S. Martin
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it
than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in
the commonplace. - Elbert Hubbard
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the
overcoming of it. - Hellen Keller
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we
stand, as in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I am never afraid of what I know. - Anna Sewell
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of
improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. -
I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death
your right to say it. - Voltaire
The real voyage of discovery consists not in
seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust from Remembrance
of Things Past