Quotes by Authors

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor Hugo

Change Principles Opinions Leaves Intact Roots Your Keep

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. Brene Brown

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis

Good Tyranny Sincerely Most Oppressive May Victims

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place. Daniel H. Pink

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself. Eckhart Tolle

You Balance Yourself Losing Made Example Mistakes Past Move On Honoring Fine Between For Example Learn Move Forgiving Acknowledge Then Now

Truths and roses have thorns about them. Henry David Thoreau

Thorns About Truths Them Roses

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell

Old Mercy Rules Computers Like Testament Lots Gods Old Testament

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Kurt Vonnegut

I never let schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

Education Never Schooling Interfere

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. Mark Twain

Me Bible Those Bother Parts Understand

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? A. A. Milne

You Think Forget Did Stop Again Ever Start

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot

Love Soul Blessed True Another Human Influence Loving Human Soul

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David Thoreau

Myself Sit Pumpkin Would Rather Crowded Velvet Than Cushion

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. Jerome K. Jerome

Funny Blessing I Am Disguise Looking Am

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. Joseph Campbell

You Yourself Space Find Sacred Where Again Your

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. Mark Twain

Day Remember First Year Other April Days

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain

Man People Naked Clothes Society Make Influence Little

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. Mark Twain

Man Liar More Never He Himself Truthful Than Acknowledge

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. Thomas Merton

Truth War Peace Sacrifice Difficult Heroic Heroism More Purity Perfect Demands Most Greater Labor Than Fidelity Much Conscience

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality. Ben Shapiro

Freedom Reality People Disagree Crime Thought Freedom Of Speech Matters Destroy Majority Becomes Decide Which Dislikes Engaging Moment Speech

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. Hans Christian Andersen

Inspirational Life God Man Life Is A Every Fingers Written Tale Fairy