"It was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to." Unknown
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell”
Oscar Wilde
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were." Marcel Proust
Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been." Agathon
What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do."
Aristotle
Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self." Writer Cyril Connolly
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create,
to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be
greater than our suffering." Ben Okri
If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find." John Churton Collins
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars."
Khalil Gibran
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad
"Try again, fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see." Winston Churchill
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." Friedrich Nietzsche
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal."
Mason Albert Pike
"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth." Bo Bennett