February 2012
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“It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to...”
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
– Victor Hugo
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“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
– William Blake
“What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.”
– Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can...”
– Immanuel Kant
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“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually...”
– Mark Twain
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“Den größten Fehler, den man im Leben machen kann, ist, immer Angst zu haben,...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to...”
– Plato (429-347 BC)
“Dreams: Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird /...”
– Langston Hughes
“There is nothing—absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply...”
– Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Ch. 1
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the...”
– Mark Caine
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“It takes a thorn to remove a thorn.”
– Hindu Proverb
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“How are you feelin’? Safe. When I’m with you, I feel so safe. Like...”
– Garden State
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“All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for,...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our...”
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in...”
– Rudyard Kipling
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“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”
– Charlotte Bronte
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“So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re...”
– Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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“I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.”
– Confucius
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The reason that we get involved with people who...
It is not possible to love someone enough to get them to stop hating, and being unavailable, to them self. We need to let go of that delusion. We need to focus on healing our self - on understanding and healing the emotional wounds that have driven us to pick people who could not give us what we want emotionally. We need to develop some healthy emotional intimacy with ourselves before we are...
“I spent most of my life being the victim of my own thoughts, my own emotions, my...”
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“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
– Victor Hugo
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“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.”
– Victor Hugo
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“Andrew Largeman: Fuck, this hurts so much.
Sam: I know it hurts. That’s...”
– Garden State
