A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. Jessamyn West
Never wish them pain. That's not who you are. If they caused you pain, they must have pain inside. Wish them healing. That's what they need. Najwa Zebian
Only when I allowed myself to feel the emotions pent up for so long inside me did I start extricating myself from my own past. Alice Miller
But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained. Katherine Boo
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. Alex Haley
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. Marilyn Monroe
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. Robert A. Heinlein
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Aristotle
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry Adams
This feeling of discomfort you have: If you can live with it your entire life, you’ll be unusually successful. Because you have to survive somehow. For those of you on autopilot, you don’t have to work that hard. That’s why I’ve changed fields a lot, because once I know how to do something, I lose interest. And you don’t grow. So I’d say it’s good you don’t fit in. John Maeda
Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep. Archilochus
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Shirley Jackson