"This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
Abraham Lincoln

"He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it."
Nicole Krauss, [The History of Love]

“Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all”
Heinrich Heine 

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint"
Albert Schweitzer

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
Henrik Ibsen 

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.”
Mark Caine 

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

Carl Jung

“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
Henry Louis Mencken

“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.”
Albert Schweitzer 

“One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from selfcentering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.”

Sir Walter Scott

“Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood, he or she can put up with almost anything in the world.”
Ed Hird 

“Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game."
Will Durant

“I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.”
City Of Angels Movie 

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
Anne Frank

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly”

Sam Keen

"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."
Confucius 

"To measure the man, measure his heart."
Audrey Hepburn

“Always keep one foot in the past, your head in the present, and your eyes to the future.”
John Smith 

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein 

“How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.”
Victor Hugo

“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”

Alex Karras 

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

Mahatma Gandhi 

"I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself."
Brittany Renee 

“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”
Lewis Carroll 

"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration of beauty."

Christopher Darlington Morley

“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”

Martha Washington 

“Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.”

Ashleigh Brilliant

“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”

Ezra Pound

“For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.”
Orson Scott Card

“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

Albert Schweitzer 

“The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.” 

Kahlil Gibran 

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
Gloria Steinem 

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
Elie Wiesel 

“Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.”

Elbert Hubbard

“Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
Henry Louis Mencken

"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
Victor Hugo

 Il tempo guarisce tutti i mali.

"Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs."
Joan Jett

“The problem with people is that they're only human.”
Bill Watterson

"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."

Ezra Pound 

“Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.” 

Anne Frank

"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
Doug Larson

"Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain."
George Saunders

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
Robert McCloskey 

"Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth."

Alan Rudolph

Temper gets you in trouble. Pride keeps you there.

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
Anais Nin

“You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.”

Henry Louis Mencken 

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.”
Robert Frost

“The harder the circumstances, the more trying the environment, the stronger are those who come out of those circumstances.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba 

"Todo el arte de vivir consiste en una buena combinación entre lo que se olvida y lo que se conserva."

Henry Ellis

"!Oh, que telaraña tan enredada tejemos, cuando primero practicamos el engaño!"
Sir Walter Scott

"El secreto de la felicidad es la libertad. El secreto de la libertad es el valor."
Tucídides

Nella vita, chi non risica, non rosica.

Je ne regrette rien.