" I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost."

Curran, John Philpot on murder   

"“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”"

Merton, Thomas on love   

""Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind." "

Shakespeare, William on love   

"Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go, but rather, learning to start over."

Sobon, Nicole on beginning   

"My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long."

Antoinette, Marie on suffering torture   

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Tzu, Lao on love
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"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. "

Buddha on doubt   

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Buddha on fear   

"The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort."

Cooley, Mason on immortality   

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”"

Merton, Thomas on love   

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another."

Merton, Thomas on love   

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on life   

""A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort." "

Smith, Sydney on courage   

"“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”"

Douglass, Frederick on progress   

"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life."

Giraudoux, Jean on death   

"“I am not concerned that you have fallen, I am concerned that you arise.”"

Lincoln, Abraham on worry
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"You never find yourself, until you face the truth."

Bailey, Pearl on truth   

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on riches   

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."

Proverb, Japanese on teacher   

"Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life staying true to a lie."

Brault, Robert on lie   

"“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”"

Wilde, Oscar on hell   

"All that we see or seem,is but a dream within a dream."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream   

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

Michel de Montaigne on memory   

"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not it's twin."

Kingsolver, Barbara on memory   

"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth."

Bennett, Bo on truth   

"“Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse un-acted desires.”"

Blake, William on desires   

"It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere."

Friedrich, Durrenmatt on sincerity   

"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

Voltaire on truth   

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on victory   

"Fear is met and destroyed with courage"

James F. Bell on courage   

"One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all times be aware of--and hence be able to control--the levels of abstraction on which he is working. The capacity to shuttle between levels of abstraction, with ease and with clarity, is a signal mark of the imaginative and systematic thinker."

Mills, C. Wright on theory   

"“I know I’m not the only person who thinks about suicide. Who has dark thoughts, and brain racing late at night when they’re alone.""

Tyler The Creator on suicide   

"They claim the shit I say is just wrong. Like nobody has those really dark thoughts when alone. I'm just a teenager, who admits he's suicide prone. My life is doing pretty good, so that date is postponed for now."

Tyler The Creator on suicide   

"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on fairness   

"The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart, that goes for lying to yourself even moreso than lying to another."

Bear, Elizabeth on lying   

"People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it."

Langer, Walter on lie   

"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events."

Rich, Adrienne on past   

"Bring the past only if you're going to build from it."

Doménico Cieri Estrada on   

"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden."

Buddha on family