It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
— Joseph Heller, Catch-22
- Days Are DamsDays are dams. Each week posts a sign above the water. This week: Goodbye. Last week: The Possible. — Lily… Read more: Days Are Dams
- We’re Not On Our Journey To Save The World But To Save OurselvesWe’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that, you save the… Read more: We’re Not On Our Journey To Save The World But To Save Ourselves
- To Make Living Itself An Art, Is The GoalWhoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist.To make living itself an art, that is the… Read more: To Make Living Itself An Art, Is The Goal
- Every Heart BreaksEvery heart breaks, but not every heart breaks open. If my heart has to break, may it break open. — Rumi
- I Myself Have Never Been Able To Find Out Precisely What Feminism IsI myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me… Read more: I Myself Have Never Been Able To Find Out Precisely What Feminism Is
- We Loved With A Love That Was More Than LoveWe loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
- Instead Of Focusing On What If, Ground Yourself In What Isyou cannot build a deep connection with someone who is disconnected from themselves. — Yung Pueblo from Clarity & Connection … Read more: Instead Of Focusing On What If, Ground Yourself In What Is
- If You Can Fall In Love Again And Again, You’ve Got It Half LickedIf you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can… Read more: If You Can Fall In Love Again And Again, You’ve Got It Half Licked
- Because Anger Too Is WeaknessBecause anger too is weakness, as much as breaking down and giving up the struggle. Both are deserters: the man… Read more: Because Anger Too Is Weakness
- We Do Not Choose Each Other RandomlyWe do not choose each other randomly. We meet only those who already exist in our subconscious. — Sigmund Freud
- I Had Gone Somewhere Inside HimI had gone somewhere inside him. I couldn’t come out. — Afsar Mohammad from poem Evening with a Sufi
- Let Everything Happen To YouLet everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final — Rainer Marie Rilke from… Read more: Let Everything Happen To You
- I, unasked and unheededI, an alarm, awaken as a rumor of war, lie stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded. — Maya Angelou from… Read more: I, unasked and unheeded
- My Former Lives Were DepartingOne after another my former lives were departing, like ships, together with their sorrow. — CZESLAW MILOSZ from poem Late… Read more: My Former Lives Were Departing