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Forgiveness should never be given - it must be earned.
David Farland
Lunatics and children are more often closer to the truth.
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people
believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more
readily it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler
- Mein Kampf
I am free, no matter what rules surround me.
If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them;
if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible
for everything I do.
Robert A.
Heinlein
To err is human. To forgive, divine.
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts
were gone, man would die from great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens
to the beast soon happens to man.
When you peel an onion, there’s lots of layers. So
with people.
A person without trust may as well be dead.
All bravery is based on fear. Both the coward and
the hero act out of terror and necessity. The only difference between them is
simply that the coward succumbs to his fear while the person with courage
triumphs in spite of it.
Lie becomes truth only if people believe it.
People want to believe the best, but they’re
always ready to fear the worst.
We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but
we can always be braver than we expect.
Never to be squandered the miracle of another
human being.
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the
soul.
Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies
feels the need to convince the world that he has none.
The situation does not define who you are. You do.
It merely brings your personality out.
I sit alone
In cabin cold
And think of things
So new yet old.
Of Love and Hate
Of hope and fear
Of voices stilled
And yet so near.
I sit alone
In cabin cold
And think of things
I’ve never told.
Of passions deep
Of love unchained
Of wasted years
And nothing gained.
I sit alone
In cabin cold
A man not young
And yet not old.
As shadows deepen
Darkness falls
A lonely man
Within the walls.
Either you believe in something or you don’t – you
can’t have it both ways and be honest with yourself.
Necessity is the mother of all inventions.
Each of us has our own sorrows. It's no shame to
take them to heart. The only sin is to forget that other people have theirs too
– or to let pity for yourself slow your hand when someone else needs help.
There are some who say no one’s to be trusted but
you and me, and I can only speak for me.
He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find
The loftiest peaks most rapt in clouds and snow;
He who surpasses or subdues mankind
Must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron
I am responsible for everything...except my very
responsibility.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore
all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Temptation inevitably overcomes any virtue.
Patriotism in adversity is the only kind that
earns respect. It’s easy to be patriotic in times of plenty, when no one is
asked to make a sacrifice.
The whole conviction of my life, rests apon the
belief that loneliness is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Thomas Wolfe
O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that
everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth
one tear shed in real sympathy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1852
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Human beings, having figured out the brutal laws
of nature, could perhaps transcend some of them.
The ingenuity of man, in the causing of
destruction to his fellow man, is boundless.
A Poison Tree
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered it with fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with my smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my garden stole
When the night had veil’d the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.
William Blake
1757 – 1827
For every abominable action in this world, nature
counteracts it with a moral achievement.
Watch out for somebody to start pointing fingers.
That will be the traitor.
Some people never go crazy. What horrible lives
they must lead.
Lucky for the rulers that the people are slow to
think.
Adolf Hitler
The more women there are about, the softer a wise
man steps.
You are nothing more than you perceive.
We each have within ourselves the ability to shape
our own destinies.
A person is what he seems to others to be. What
you happen to think about yourself is completely unreliable and irrelevant.
Only in the estimation of others can your true worth be validly determined.
The easiest path to power lies through conquering
a man who already possesses it.
He who speaks less, has less to mend in the
future.
Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with
all sorts of creatures who are indifferent to our overlordship. They have their
own societies, and their own cultures. When it inconveniences them do they pay
any attention to us at all.
Man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the
rest.
Be careful how you treat the people on your way
up, because you might meet them again on your way down.
I cannot convince a man of my truth simply by
silencing him when he tries to speak his own.
Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self
– preservation.
A prison is a prison only to a man that can’t
escape.
People never change, they react first, think
later, and regret at leisure.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds
him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry
reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power
corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which
must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.
John F. Kennedy
A hero is simply the last desperate act of a
coward.
We judge a man by how he honours his
responsibilities.
Better to trust the one who bears command as a burden
than one who bears it as a right.
Only those you trust can betray you.
A person that will not listen to advice honestly
given, is a fool. Of course, a person who blindly takes any advice they
receive, is a bigger fool.
You can't build a reputation on what you intend to
do.
Liz Smith
One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is
that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive, but find their happiness only
in the misery of others.
If a man fails at home, he also fails in life.
Men feign compassion when it is convenient and
then discard it when it’s purpose has been served.
The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most
useful tool.
Stephen King
Appearances and realities are seldom the same. The
human talent for deception is far greater than that of the chameleon, the
mocking bird, or the praying mantis, which masks it’s ferocious cannibalism
with a serene and devout posture.
Sometimes a man doesn’t know how badly he is hurt
until someone else probes the wound.
Some people believe, perhaps childishly, that if
you followed the rules, you would be protected from the evils on this earth.
Honor, courtesy, and justice…they are not real. We all pretend to hold them,
and hold them up like shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are
not shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves
his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do
wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain (1906)
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that, in
the process, he does not become a monster.
Friedrich Nietzche
Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his
objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as
beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers
lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The greatest power of all is our own ability to
care about each other, to help each other.
If you do not understand my silence, you will not
understand my words.
Falseness dies; injustice and oppression in the
end of everything fade and vanish away. Greed, cruelty, selfishness, and
inhumanity are short-lived; the individual suffers, but the race goes on.
Frank Norris
I heed not that my earthly lot
Hath little of earth in it--
That years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute:--
I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by.
Edgar Allan Poe
Loneliness is a choice.
Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, is
sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons is the
fertile dirt of immorality, from which sprouts the tendrils of evil.
People will believe a lie either because they want
to believe it’s true, or because they fear it is.
Mind what people do, not only what they say, for
deeds will betray a lie.
Once you place the crown of a liar upon your head,
you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
There are some kinds of actions, for good or ill,
that lie so far outside the boundries of normal behaviour that they force us,
in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding
of reality. We have to make room for them.
Some people, no matter how old they get, never
lose their beauty -- they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin Buxbaum
There are people who laugh to show their fine
teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
Joseph Roux
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but
their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Theresa
You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I
remember. You involve me, and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Learning affects only what you do. If you teach
others, you change others.
One cannot expect to possess knowledge which does
not change one. Once one knows, then one is acting on that knowledge, whether
it is to withhold the knowledge from those who would also be changed, or to
give it to them.
People believe what those powerful enough to
affect belief demonstrate is believable.
The hardest part about moving forward is not
looking back.
Our problem is not with ignorance; it is one of complacency. We are too
quick to accept the life we know and not quick enough to embrace the life we
only imagine.
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
Larry
Leissner
Most of us will never do great things, but we can do small things in a great
way.
What we leave behind us is not as important as how we've lived.
It is not by the gray of the hair
That one knows the age of the heart.
Bulwer
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you
really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived
through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor
Roosevelt
I... Care...?
Why is it that I don't think I care?
I should care,
I want to care,
But I don't...
I just don't care anymore.
I know I cared once...before
But I don't know "before" what?...
Caring seems so useless now,
Why bother?
Everybody loses in the end,
Failure is guaranteed,
Trying is worthless.
Loss is total and irreparable,
In the end, everyone loses.
In the long-run, we are all dead.
There is just no point to it anymore.
Why bother?
Who cares?
Who will care?
The time is near,
The time is now.
This is who we are.
It all seems so pointless...
Why do I feel this way?
I want to know,
I want to care again,
I want to believe.
Tim Flanders
It is better to be alone than to wish you were.
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears.
It seems to absolve us.
Van Wyck
Brooks, (1886-1963).
It’s always been one of my principles that I should never do myself what
someone else can do for me better and faster.
"Isn't the pattern that most people follow the most despicable action?
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who
cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be
dishonest, but others think he's honest and he derives his self respect from
that, second hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his
own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he's great in the eyes of others.
Tthe frustrated wretch who professes love for the inferior and clings to those
less endowed, in order to establish his own superiority by comparison. The man
whose sole aim is to make money. But money is only a means to an end. If a man
wants it for a personal purpose--to invest in his industry, to create, to
study, to travel, to enjoy luxury--he's completely moral. But the men who place
money first go much beyond that. Personal luxury is a limited endeavor. What
they want is ostentation: to show, to stun, to entertain, to impress others.
They're second -handers. Look at our so-called cultural endeavors. A lecturer
who spouts some borrowed rehash of nothing at all that means nothing at all to
him--and the people who listen and don't give a damn, but sit there in order to
tell their friends that they have attended a lecture by a famous name. All
second-handers."
Howard Roark
"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand
Which of your problems belong to where you are and
which of them belong to who you are.
It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of
their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation
the courage of their confusions.
John Ciardi
When people see something strange, something they don’t understand, they get
afraid. You teach them the beauty of that strange thing and they’re no longer
afraid because it’s a part of them. Their knowledge frees them from fear.
Smiles are but images on the pond of being, reflections only made possible
by the black depths beneath.
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first rule of
reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is. From this irreducible,
bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which
life exists. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a
means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality - it's
our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to
reject reason, but we are not free to evade the penalty of the abyss we refuse
to see. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is
wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one
embraces death.
Great intelligence could be a bottomless well of truly inventive cruelty.
Tyranny requires constant tending, lest the illusion of righteous authority
evaporate in the light of it's grim toll, and the brutes be overpowered by the
people who greatly outnumber them.
I've looked at him.. at what's left of him...and it's helped me to
understand. He's paying the price and wondering for what sin and telling
himself that he's been too selfish. In what act or thought of his has there
ever been a self? What was his aim in life? Greatness--in other people's eyes.
Fame, admiration, envy--all that which comes from others. Others dictated his
convictions , which he did not hold, but he was satisfied that others believed
he held them. Others were his motive power and his prime concern. He didn't
want to be great, but to be thought great. He didn't want to build, but to be
admired as a builder. He borrowed from others in order to make an impression on
others. There's your actual selflessness. It's his ego he's betrayed and given
up. But everybody calls him selfish.
Howard Roark
"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand
In
Pastor
Martin Niemoller
I saw the angel in the marble and I chiseled until I set him free.
Michelangelo
Creation of woman from the rib of man: She was not made from his head to top
him; nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him; but out of his side to be
equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.
People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they
won’t forget how you made them feel.
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses. Women for their
strengths."
Lois Wyse
Confidence is to be applauded, arrogance avoided.
David Gemmel
- "Sword in the Storm"
Just as it is adversity that hardens the spirit of people, so can adversity
strengthen the soul of a man. What we master becomes ours to use.
Guy Gavriel
Kay - "Lord of Emperors"
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon
the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Charles
Dickens - "Great Expectations"
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed
for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Charles Dickens
- "Great Expectations"
It is hard enough to make decisions for your own life without trying to
decide how somebody else should behave.
David Drake
- "Queen of Demons"
There's only one reason why people are afraid to be alone. Deep down, they
fear themselves.