Quotes

“Love me when I less deserve it… that’s when I need it most.”

“The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.”

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” Homer

“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” Agnes Repplier

“Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”  Matthew Arnold, “Self-Dependence,” Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852

“The secret to forgiving everything is understanding nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw.

“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste o spirits.” – Hannah Moore.

“Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger, but rather faces it head-on” – Alice Miller.

“How tempting it is to raise high walls and keep out change. Rot here in our own self-satisfied comfort.”

“Enclosures of any kind are a fertile breeding ground for hatred of outsiders. That produces a bitter harvest.”

“If you fitted yourself too tightly to one thing, other abilities atrophied. We become what we do.”

“I survived, knowing that victory sometimes is achieved at a moral price.”

“Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security.”

“Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the most corruptible. Suspect all who seek it.”

“Those against whom judgment is passed must accept the fairness of it.”

Don’t march in the streets with others who share your prejudices. Loud shouts are often the easiest to ignore. “I mean, look at them out there shouting their fool heads off! You want to make common cause with them?”