October 19, 2023
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us.
—Franz Kafka
March 12, 2023
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
—W. H. Auden
December 23, 2022
I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.
—Margaret Mead
October 5, 2022
The child will feel primarily what we live by, what makes us loving, cooperative, and firm beings, and what makes us hateful, anxious, and divided in ourselves.
—Erik Erikson
September 27, 2022
Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 18, 2022
It took years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.
—James Baldwin
April 20, 2020
Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water; after enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
—Zen proverb
March 21, 2020
You can’t escape the cage if you’ve been told it’s the home where you belong.
—Carina Chocano
February 25, 2020
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
—Fred Rogers
February 3, 2020
Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.
—Rumi
January 1, 2020
The balance of power is the scale of peace.
—Thomas Paine
December 1, 2019
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
—Albert Einstein
November 10, 2019
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness.
—August Wilson
October 29, 2019
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
—Albert Einstein
August 25, 2019
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.
—Anthony de Mello
August 14, 2019
It’s never too late to be what you might have been.
—George Eliot
August 1, 2019
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
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July 25, 2019
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
—Elvis Presley
July 20, 2019
A life unexamined is not worth living.
—Socrates
July 5, 2019
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
—Margaret Mead
June 26, 2019
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
—Sigmund Freud
June 19, 2019
You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.
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June 7, 2019
The only part of you that hurts when you’re given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
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May 25, 2019
You, he said, are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.
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March 6, 2019
An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.
—Craig D. Lounsbrough
February 15, 2019
This is not your responsibility but it is your problem.
—Cheryl Strayed
February 6, 2019
Our feelings will always reveal the true story, which no one else knows and which only we can discover.
—Alice Miller
January 29, 2019
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.
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January 21, 2019
Power without love is reckless and abusive.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
January 17, 2019
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 11, 2019
I thought narcissism was about self-love ‘til someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.
—Emily Levine
January 10, 2019
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster. [W]hen you gaze long into the abyss . . . [t}he abyss gazes also into you.
—Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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