“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” – Winston Churchill
“Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future.” – Paul Boese
“When you look into an abyss… The abyss looks into you.” – Nietzsche
“We knew the world would not be the same. Some people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.” – J. Robert Oppenheimer
“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of the truth.” – Ludwig Borne
“Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.” – Vittorio Alfieri
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract positive thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“Naivete in grown ups is often charming. But when coupled with vanity, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.” – Eric Hoffer
“There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours.” – Wayne Dyer
“Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it. To channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.” –Alvin Toffler
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn. And where we end up is really in fact where we always intended to be.” – Julia Glass
“Remove my sin and I will be clean. Wash me and I will be whiter than snow.” – Psalm 51
“The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.” – Sophocles
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new and near the end, the milestones into headstones change, ‘neath every one a friend.” – James Russell Lowell
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.” – Euripides
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility of our future.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Your memory is a monster. It summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you.” – John Irving
“It is the man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” – Buddha
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch without doing anything.” – Albert Einstein
“Life is about choices. Some we regret. Some we’re proud of. We are what we choose to be.” – Graham Brown
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle
“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Tony Robbins
“The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we’re in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.” – Paul Auster
“The universe doesn’t like the secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth to lead you to it.” – Lisa Unger
“And think not that you can direct the course of love. For love finds you worthy directs your course.” – Khalil Gibran (The Prophet)
“All sins tend to be addictive. And the terminal point of addiction is damnation.” – W. H. Auden
“Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night.” – J. M. Barrie
“We are all sharks, circling, and waiting for traces of blood to appear in the water.” – Allan Clark
“To a father nothing is dearer than a daughter.” – Euripides
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body but you will never imprison my mind.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.” – Coco Chanel
“The enemies are within the gates. It is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The clock talked loud. I threw it away. It scared me when it talked.” – Tillie Olsen
“Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to struggle against entropy.” – Vaclav Havel
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“A man’s very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust and beats his breast and tells all the sins of his life.” – Oscar Wilde
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honore De Balzec
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” – James E. Faust
“By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.” – Angelus Silesius
“Revenge is an act of passion, vengeance of justice.” – Samuel Johnson
“The darkness always lies.” – Anthony Liccione
“You see what power is — holding someone else’s fear in our hand and showing it to them.” – Amy Tan
