Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. - Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed

True beauty lies in purity of the heart. - Mahatma Gandhi

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it - Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

What others think about you is none of your business. - Jack Canfield, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King's Men) - Robert Penn Warren

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful. - Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Socrates should have written comics. - Mark Waid

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak. - Margaret Weis, Dragons of a Lost Star

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out. - Jonathan Safran Foer

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length. - Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know. - Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens

The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For nothing is ever added to it or subtracted from it. It follows that the movement of atoms today is no different from what it was in bygone ages and always will be. So the things that have regularly come into being will continue to come into being in the same manner; they will be and grow and flourish so far as each is allowed by the laws of nature. - Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of Things

Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment. - Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. - Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps. - Ambrose Bierce

As I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me. He bared his teeth, which were pointed like a bear's.I tried to talk to him in my mind. I can do that with most horses.I'm going to clean your stables. Won't that be great?Come inside! Eat you! Tasty half-blood!Usually this gets me VIP treatment in the equestrian world, not this time.Poseidon can come in, too! We will eat you both! Seafood! The other horses chimed in as they waded through the field. - Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior. - John Newton, Amazing Grace

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,'said the dewdrop to the lake. - Rabindranath Tagore

Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart