| Quote | Author | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. |
Carl Gustav Jung | 1875 – 1961 | |
People don’t resent having nothing nearly as much as too little. |
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett | 1884 – 1969 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. |
M. Scott Peck | 1936 – 2005 | |
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. |
Henry David Thoreau | 1817- 1862 | |
Do not go gentle into that good night. |
Dylan Thomas | 1914 – 1953 | Do not go gentle into that good night’ (1947) |
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer. |
Terence Mckenna | 1946 – 2000 | |
The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity. |
George Orwell | 1903 – 1950 | As I Please (1943–1947) |
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. |
Horace | 65 – 8 BC | |
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you? |
Terence Mckenna | 1946 – 2000 | |
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. |
Marilyn Monroe | 1926 – 1962 |