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
If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize. —Muhammad Ali More about this quote Tags: humor self-confidence pride over-confidence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. —Coco Chanel More about this quote Tags: success failure belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: self-worth opinions eyes gossip Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: power self-worth belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've never been very good at feasting on the daily newspaper. It turns bitter in my mouth. And yet, this is my world. This face of suffering I must embrace as a part of my responsibility. Part of the feast is becoming aware of the world that is mine. Part of the feast is owning this broken world as my own brokenness. —Macrina Wiederkehr More about this quote Tags: news awareness pain bitterness suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The space between our mouth and the people’s ears, or eyes, who receive what we make, that is holy ground. —Fred Rogers More about this quote Tags: space compassion reverence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think all people would like to feel that they’re a necessary part of life. That they’re necessary in the world, and that life would be poorer if they weren’t in it. When you accomplish something, when you write good poetry, then I think you feel that the world would be slightly different if you weren’t in it. And that, I think, is part of what being needed is about. —Kenneth Koch More about this quote Tags: life purpose meaning poetry value necessity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up. —Mae West More about this quote Tags: power rules feminism women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: history acceptance opinions popularity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: power value inferiority self-worth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. —Elie Wiesel More about this quote Tags: silence injustice protest Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email