LIFE

This mystical crap is a part of who and what I am. I can't run from it because it's me. You can't hide from yourself, and you can't ever outrun yourself.
Anita Blake "Obsidian Butterfly" -Laurell K. Hamilton

The longest journey is the journey inward.
D. Hammerskjold

Be attuned to all that you do; do not judge one deed small and another great, for you cannot always know their significance.
Judah HaNassi

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Salvor Hardin

We have to serve ourselves many years before we gain our own confidence.
Henry S Haskins

I live through my heart.
Goldie Hawn

What other dungeon is as dark as one's own heart! What jailor so inexorable as one's own self.
N. Hawthorne

In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.
Heart Warrior Chosa

People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman

We are taught you must blame your father, your sister, your brothers, the school, the teachers. You can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you want to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that isn't it?
K. Hepburn

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Frank Herbert -"Dune"

He who wishes to enjoy the protection of the herd knows nothing of the joy and beauty of his own mind and fantasy.
Herman Hesse

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Herman Hesse

Some of us think that holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Herman Hesse

Respect is just the minimum.
Lauryn Hill

If you have to swallow a toad, don't stare at it too long.
Connie Hilliard

It's not difficult to coast along when things are going well, when a balance has been established. What's difficult is the new. The new ice. The new light, the new feelings.
Peter Hoag

Open you eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.
Amber "Mad Ship" Robin Hobb

You can't go back. . . That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is "supposed to be". . . Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the least of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are maent to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.Amber "Mad Ship" Robin Hobb

I will not be an enemy of anything I do not understand.
G. Holelen

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life gives us what we need when we need it. Recieving what it gives is a whole other thing.
Pam Houston

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need me.
Jane Howard

Be like the bird, who halting in his flight on limb too slight, yet sings -- knowing he has wings.
Victor Hugo

To trust is sometimes to surrender.
Victor Hugo

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real we exist; it is by the ideal we live.
Victor Hugo

I can only change myself, but sometimes that is enough.
Ruth Humlecker

When I lean on a door and it collapses, it cannot all be attributed to my strength; Something must be said for the infirm condition of the door. This keeps my ego in check.
Ruth Humlecker

Doubt is the beginning, not the end of wisdom.
Goerge Iles

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
Hardy D. Jackson

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James

I now perceive one intense mission in my psychology - the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James

Beginning is easy - continuing is hard.
Japanese Proverb

Excuse me, think I've mistaken you for someone else, Somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.
Jewel

I'm becoming more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
Jewel

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.
Benjamin Jewett

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
Billy Joel

We all have a face that we hide away forever
And we take them out and show ourselves
When everyone has gone
Billy Joel

It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph

Never cut what you can untie.
Joseph Joubert

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
J. Joyce

Lonliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
Jung

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo O Kahura

We write our own destiny. We become what we do.
Chiang Kai-Shek

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Henry Kaiser

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told too.
Alan Keightley

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas A. Kempis

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose one's self.
Kierkegaard

If I had to carve the inscription on my tombstone, I should wish form none other than, "The Individual."
Kierkegaard

Fight for peace, destroy a stereotype today.
Kelly Keith

The self is a calm stable center surrounded by a continuous changing sea. merge with yourself and be ready for any emergent sea.
Corretta Scott King

Learn to pause, or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
D. King

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of because words diminish them, words shrink things that seemed tremendous when they were in you head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King

I must find a truth that is true for me.
Soren Kirkegaard

There are beautiful people in similar situations, feeling very much the same things as we. And though we are all alone, in a way we are not, and for me there is a comfort in that.
Bill Kohler

The hardest thing in life to deal with is not abuse, not death, not illness, but lonliness.
Dean Koontz

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
Midori Koto

The body is affected by everything that is happening around you; it is not separate from what is happening around you. Whatever is happening there, is also happening here - there is only the physical response. This is affection.
J. Krishnamurti

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know. . . Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
George Kreller

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
Louis Kronenburger

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
Tuli Kuperlerg

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Akira Kurosawa

A person often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine

There will come a time when you think that everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour

Before we set our hearts upon anything, let us examine how happy they are who already posess it.
La Rochefoucauld

It's a queer thing is a man's soul. It is the whole of him, which means it is the unknown as well as the known. . . the soul of a man is a deep vast forrest, with wild life in it.
D. H. Lawrence

Try to find you deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
D. H. Lawrence

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.
S. J. Lec

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable; sleep.
Ursala K. LeGuin

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Leibowitz

That's the way things become clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
Madeline L'Engle

There is an intuitive core at the depth of your being.
Helene Lerner-Robbins

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt.
Max Lerner

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Max Lerner

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea then the sea to a shore.
"Les Miserables"

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
"Les Miserables"

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing

Five senses; an incievable abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
C. S. Lewis

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis

When you have found your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors or to those who are still in the hall.
C. S. Lewis

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

If you let yourself be absorbed completely, if you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly in those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. . . Only when one os connected to one's own core is one connected to others. . . And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be found through silence.
Anne M. Lindbergh

The divided self exists in all of us.
Marie Linquist

To stop behaving in a certain way is to risk the unfamiliar.
Jan Lloyd

It takes less time to do a thing right, then to explain why you did it wrong.
Longfellow

The thoughts which come unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most reliable of any we have.
John Locke

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Longfellow

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
Jean Loomer

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre Lorde

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? . . . For it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
Audre Lorde

The white fathers told us, "I think therefore I am," and the Black mother within each of of us - the past - whispers in our dreams, I feel, therefore I can be free.
Audre Lorde

Mishaps are like knives, that either save us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell

You live through darkness with what you learned in the light.
Hope MacDonald

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.
Stephanie Mallame

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of otheres, without being crippled by your own judgement.
Ralph Marston

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela

I love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness, for it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you -- you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences -- little rags and shreds of your very life.
Katherine Mansfield

Everything that we really accept undergoes a change.
Katherine Mansfield

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not yet found your place.
Orson S. Marden

It is an old ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May

There's no power in acting how other people want you to be.
Ally McBeal

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
Anne McCaffrey

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
Rose McCauley

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
Sarah McLachlan

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and try not to hide it.
Sarah McLachlan

It's about walls, it's about the walls we build up to protect ourselves, and trying to dreate a facade that we think is more interesting than who we really are. And hiding those insecurities.
Sarah McLachlan

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
M. McLaughlin

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead

A great man is the one who has not lost the child's heart.
Mencius

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. when we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl Menninger

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
J. Michner

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making new discoveries.
A. A. Milne

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.
A. A. Milne

Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Moliere

Listen with your heart and the forrest shall talk to your soul.
Cassandra Moonshadow

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moose

In every man's heart is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley

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