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  • #1
    Václav Havel
    “The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
    Vaclav Havel

  • #2
    Václav Havel
    “Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.”
    Vaclav Havel
    tags: life

  • #3
    Václav Havel
    “Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”
    Vaclav Havel

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #5
    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #6
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #8
    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

  • #9
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
    Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    Victor Hugo

  • #12
    Mother Teresa
    “Peace begins with a smile..”
    Mother Teresa

  • #13
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #14
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #15
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #16
    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

  • #17
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    Jonathan Swift

  • #18
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #19
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #20
    Charles Dickens
    “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #21
    Bob Marley
    “Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
    Bob Marley

  • #22
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
    Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”
    Charlie Schultz

  • #23
    Samuel Beckett
    “You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #24
    Flannery O'Connor
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
    Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works

  • #25
    Flannery O'Connor
    “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

  • #26
    Flannery O'Connor
    “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

  • #27
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

  • #28
    Flannery O'Connor
    “A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #29
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.”
    Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

  • #30
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.”
    Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor



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