Some steps must be taken defiantly, against the grain. There is no growth without a bursting, without pain: primitive peoples in their wisdom place pain at the center of initiation.
John Updike
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends something.
Paul Valery
The best index of a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
I think the most wonderful things in life are beyond reason, that is why I think "why" is often such an irrelevant question, it is very limited. The real things in life have nothing to do with "why." They are just "so." They are just "thus." Life is a "thus," and until you realize this "thusness" of life, you are stuck.
Laurens Van der Post
Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
Judith Viorst
I am not attached to my past. It lies behind me,a distant shore. I am not attched to the world. I glide over its surface. I release all holds onto me. Having myself, I am safe. I am free.
David Viscott
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival skill.
June Wagner
The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something more basic than any technique: a change of heart.
John Walpole
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
We are all led to the truth for which we are ready.
N. D. Walsch
If we go down into ourselves we find that we posess exactly what we desire.
Simone Weil
What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeannette Winterson
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and after, nothing so strange.
Daniel Webster
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Simone Weil
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. . . The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.
Simone Weil
A hurtful past is the transferrence to others of the degredation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
Problem stated at its most succint = is life too short to be taking shit or is it too short to mind it?
Violet Weingarten, "Intimates of Immortality"
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Elie Weisel
Learning stamps you with its moments.
Eudora Welty
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Our minds are finite, and yet even in those circumstances of finitude, we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
A. N. Whitehead
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself.
Walt Whitman
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame is.
Oscar Wilde
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde
Simple pleasures . . .are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde
What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
Robin Williams
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
Those who commit terrible deeds are not monsters. They are human beings who have done montrous things. If they truly were beasts, they would be blameless. They are human and responsable because they have betrayed their humanness.
David J. Wolpe
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia Woolfe
Memory has a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
"The Wonder Years"
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
George Woodbury
The battle to keep up appearances unneccessarily, the mask - whatever name you give creeping perfectionism - robs us of our energies.
Robin Worthington
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Lin Yeeting
The world is as you are.
Mahesh Yogi
I do not always have to be right!
Mary Zink
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
As you believe, so you become. As you become, so you believe.
Everyday we are given stones. But it is up to us whether we build a bridge or a wall.
Everything depends, Nothing is always, Everything is sometimes.
Footprints on the sads of time are not made by sitting down.
A gem cannot be perfected without friction, nor a man protected without trials.
He who leaves his house in search of happiness persues a shadow.
How would the child that you were view the person you have become?
In the busy world of chaos and disarray, stop for a moment and think of something beautiful.
In the wind of the mind lies the turbulence called I.
It's not what you think that holds you back, it's what you think you're not.
Life is so much easier if you ride the horse in the direction it's going.
Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.
Moving on is simple. It's what we leave behind that's so hard.
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. pass all the pebbles in your path, and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
An open mind opens doors.
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.
Saying goodbye is easy, it's knowing what we have to leave behind that's tough.
The silence of the stars is not easy to hear, but when felt, it moves us to the depths of our being.
Sometimes the road is less traveled for a reason.
Someone says something really small and it fits into this empty space in your heart.
Surrender to none the fire of your soul.
Surrender to the fact that life isn't fair.
There are no miracles to those who do not beleive.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
There is a price that is too great to pay for peace. . . one cannot pay the price of self-respect.
This chance will stand before you only once.
This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important becuase you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, in its place is something that you have left behind . . . let it be something good.
A truly wise man never plays leap-frog with a unicorn.
To be alone is the fate of all great minds; a fate deplored at times but still chosen as the less grieveous of the two evils.
We all start out knowing magic. . . but then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.
We are not always given the cost before we buy the package.
The words we most want to say are difficult to find. Their journey begins far, far away in the heart.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
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