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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

—Helen Keller

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I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.

—Helen Keller

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I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

—Edgar Allan Poe

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But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

—Barbara Hall

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To perceive is to suffer.

—Aristotle

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

—Voltaire

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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

—Rene Descartes

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In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

—Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

—Paul Valéry

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

—Michel de Montaigne

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

—Marcus Aurelius

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