Willard Gaylin Quote – Expressing Anger
“Expressing anger is a form of public littering.” – Willard Gaylin
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Jodi Picoult Quote – Heroes
“Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead […]
Read moreAngela Carter Quote – What terrible discipline it takes to live harmoniously
“What terrible discipline it takes to live harmoniously.” – Angela Carter
Read moreKathleen Winsor Quote – Charm
“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.” – Kathleen Winsor
Read moreHeraclitus Quote – One Is A Warrior
“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.” ― Heraclitus
Read moreFrançois de La Rochefoucauld Quote – Memory
“Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person?” – François de La Rochefoucauld
Read moreGabriel García Márquez Quote – The Life Of A Person
“The life of a person is not what happened, but what he remembers and how he remembers it.” – Gabriel García Márquez
Read moreGail Godwin Quote – Dreams Transport Us
“I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.” – Gail Godwin
Read moreChinese Proverb – Joy
“One joy scatters a thousand griefs.” – Chinese proverb
Read moreAmos Vogel quote – We only perceive 5 percent of the real world
“What we know of the world comes to us primarily through vision. Our eyes, however, are sensitive only to that segment of the spectrum located between red and violet; the remaining 95 percent of all existing light (cosmic, infrared, ultraviolet, gammas, and x-rays) we cannot see. This means that we only perceive 5 percent of the “real” world.” – Amos Vogel
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