Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara KingsolverRead
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Names are not always what they seem.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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