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“Life for the living, and rest for the dead!”
Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.37
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“A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.”
Source : David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.252, Shambhala Publications
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“People will feel the way they feel.”
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“I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.”
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“The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a single stroke, we delude our students into believing that bad prose turns opinions into facts and we alienate them from their own inner lives.”
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“The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.”
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“Absence of pain makes anything possible”
Source : Nicole Blackman (2002). “Blood Sugar”, Akashic Books
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“It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.”
