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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the one who hated, and this is an immutable law...i imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense that once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― james baldwin

“We are made to persist.
that's how we find out who we are.”
― Tobias Wolff

“Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Therefore, let the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty-mountain winds be free to blow against thee.”
― William Wordsworth

“Some of you will say, This is stupid. Will I break my promise not to argue the point, even though I consider Mr. Owen’s poems the greatest to come out of World War I? No! It’s just my opinion, you see, and opinions are like assholes: everybody has one.” They all roared at that, young ladies and gentlemen alike. Mr. Ricker drew himself up. “I may give some of you detentions if you disrupt my class, I have no problem with imposing discipline, but never will I disrespect your opinion. And yet! And yet!” Up went the finger. “Time will pass! Tempus will fugit! Owen’s poem may fall away from your mind, in which case your verdict of is-stupid will have turned out to be correct. For you, at least. But for some of you it will recur. And recur. And recur. Each time it does, the steady march of your maturity will deepen its resonance. Each time that poem steals back into your mind, it will seem a little less stupid and a little more vital. A little more important. Until it shines, young ladies and gentlemen. Until it shines.”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.”
― Anne Wilson Schaef

“Who we are is who we choose to be in this very moment.”
― David Clark, EAT SH*T AND DIE: Radical Rehab for Food Junkies and Sugar Addicts

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.”
― Albert Einstein

“Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.”
― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never before have I lived through a storm like the one this night. … The sea has a look of indescribable grandeur, especially when the sun falls on it. One feels as if one is dissolved and merged into Nature. Even more than usual, one feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.”
― Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein: The Human Side

“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility… The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
― Albert Einstein

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

“世に住むこと二十年にして、住むに甲斐ある世と知った。二十五年にして明暗は表裏のごとく、日のあたる所にはきっと影がさすと悟った。三十の今日はこう思うている。
―喜びの深きとき憂いよいよ深く、楽しみの大いなるほど苦しみも大きい。
これを切り放そうとすると身が持てぬ。片づけようとすれば世が立たぬ。”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kusamakura

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“The Buddha said anger has a “poisoned root and honeyed tip.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
― Robert J. Hanlon

“Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. You won't be able to forgive yourself for not doing things differently until you stop wishing things were different”
― Zoe York, Love on a Spring Morning

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“It never hurts to see the good in someone, they often act the better because of it.”
― Nelson Mandela