And this is the simple truth — that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: truth life ideas tragedy clinging chaos salvation being lost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even for our enemies in misery, there should be tears in our eyes. —Charan Singh More about this quote Tags: enemies suffering misery tears Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Now you know the worst / we humans have to know / about ourselves, and I am sorry. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. —Italian proverb More about this quote Tags: death equality chess games use Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: truth love history time inevitability tyranny murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good. —Katherine Anne Porter More about this quote Tags: evil good government cruelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is simply not true that war never settles anything. —Felix Frankfurter More about this quote Tags: truth war finality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes . . . as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Tags: war politics imagination memory people failure science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without your wounds where would your power be? The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken in the wheels of living. In love's service, only the wounded soldiers can serve. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Tags: love power children hurt angels wounds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: death courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Chief Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, and his people, believed he was immortal, and he, and they, were right every day of his life except one. —Richard Paul Haight More about this quote Tags: life immortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear. —Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche More about this quote Tags: fear potential knowledge depression fearlessness courage transcending Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you. —Elmer Davis More about this quote Tags: fear Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The practice of terror serves the true believer not only to cow and crush his opponents but also to invigorate and intensify his own faith. —Eric Hoffer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email