The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
-Barbara Kingsolver
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
-Hannah Arendt
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
-John Andrew Holmes
At any moment you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.