I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: truth self-hatred Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: love humor self-confidence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
With confidence, you have won before you have started. —Marcus Garvey More about this quote Tags: action confidence winning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: ignorance success confidence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: knowledge breadth depth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. —Jiddu Krishnamurti More about this quote Tags: society disease mental health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. —Philip K. Dick More about this quote Tags: delusion reality belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: war ideas death nobility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do. —Dorothy Day More about this quote Tags: hope work despair depression hopelessness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph: killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. —Leonard Cohen More about this quote Tags: justice faith doubt loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Despair, surely the least aggressive of sins, is dangerous to the totalitarian temperament because it is a state of intense inwardness, thus independence. The despairing soul is a rebel. —Joyce Carol Oates More about this quote Tags: power rebellion despair totalitarianism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes, are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair. Despair is for those who expect to live forever. I no longer do. —Erica Jong More about this quote Tags: life preciousness ephemerality despair permanence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is good that fire should burn, even if it consumes your house; it is good that force should crush, even if it crushes you; it is good that rain should fall, even if it destroys your crops and floods your land. Plagues and pestilences attest to the constancy of natural law. They set us to cleaning our streets and houses and to readjusting our relations to outward nature. Only in a live universe could disease and death prevail. Death is a phase of life, a redistributing of the type. Decay is another kind of growth. —John Burroughs More about this quote Tags: bad good death all one sickness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest, too. —Sting More about this quote Tags: justice conservation poverty inequality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. —Helen Keller in Optimism More about this quote Tags: optimism hope faith achievement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email