“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
― Andrew Boyd
“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
— Khaled Hosseini
“You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying in the road.”
– Richard Price
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lip.”
– Oliver Goldsmith
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Conventionality is not morality.”
– Bronte
“All my doubting, never got me far.”
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“First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.”
― Rob Gilbert
“I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.”
– Sylvia Plath
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.”
– Albert Schweitzer
“How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you…”
– W. B. Yeats
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object than what the imagination alone is able to attain.”
– David Hume
“A sudden, bold, and unexpected question can many times surprise a man, and even lay him open.”
– Francis Bacon