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  • #1
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #2
    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #3
    Jessamyn West
    “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
    Jessamyn West

  • #4
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #5
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #6
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
    Jean Paul Sarte

  • #7
    Frederick Buechner
    “Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”
    Frederick Buechner

  • #8
    Frederick Buechner
    “Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ”
    Frederick Buechner

  • #9
    Frederick Buechner
    “It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.”
    Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

  • #10
    Frederick Buechner
    “Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.”
    Frederick Buechner

  • #11
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    Plato

  • #12
    Fred Rogers
    “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #13
    Fred Rogers
    “Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
    Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

  • #14
    Fred Rogers
    “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #15
    Fred Rogers
    “The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #16
    Fred Rogers
    “Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.”
    Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

  • #17
    Fred Rogers
    “I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #18
    Octavia E. Butler
    “All that you touch
    You Change.

    All that you Change
    Changes you.

    The only lasting truth
    is Change.

    God
    is Change.”
    Octavia E. Butler

  • #19
    Octavia E. Butler
    “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
    Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

  • #20
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Choose your leaders
    with wisdom and forethought.
    To be led by a coward
    is to be controlled
    by all that the coward fears.
    To be led by a fool
    is to be led
    by the opportunists
    who control the fool.
    To be led by a thief
    is to offer up
    your most precious treasures
    to be stolen.
    To be led by a liar
    is to ask
    to be told lies.
    To be led by a tyrant
    is to sell yourself
    and those you love
    into slavery.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #21
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Beware:
    Ignorance
    Protects itself.
    Ignorance
    Promotes suspicion.
    Suspicion
    Engenders fear.
    Fear quails,
    Irrational and blind,
    Or fear looms,
    Defiant and closed.
    Blind, closed,
    Suspicious, afraid,
    Ignorance
    Protects itself,
    And protected,
    Ignorance grows.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #22
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Kindness eases change
    Love quiets fear”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #23
    Octavia E. Butler
    “When apparent stability disintegrates,
    As it must--
    God is Change--
    People tend to give in
    To fear and depression,
    To need and greed.
    When no influence is strong enough
    To unify people
    They divide.
    They struggle,
    One against one,
    Group against group,
    For survival, position, power.
    They remember old hates and generate new ones,
    The create chaos and nurture it.
    They kill and kill and kill,
    Until they are exhausted and destroyed,
    Until they are conquered by outside forces,
    Or until one of them becomes
    A leader
    Most will follow,
    Or a tyrant
    Most fear.”
    Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

  • #24
    Octavia E. Butler
    “In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed

  • #25
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed

  • #26
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels. The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that's the way it will be. That's the way it always is.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

  • #27
    Octavia E. Butler
    “When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

  • #28
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Shyness is shit. It isn’t cute or feminine or appealing. It’s torment, and it’s shit.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

  • #29
    Octavia E. Butler
    “People do blame you for the things they do to you.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #30
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.”
    Octavia E. Butler



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