The Diary of a Young Girl

 

“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”

“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”

“Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”

“I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.”

Anne Frank

Look under your feet

 

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

“Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.”

 

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

John Burroughs

Mother Night and other stories

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” 

 

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”

“The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.”

Kurt Vonnegut

Freedom from the Known

“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”

 

“To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor.”

“THE DEMAND TO be safe in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. This seeking for security is inviting insecurity. Have you ever found security in any of your relationships? Have you? Most of us want the security of loving and being loved, but is there love when each one of us is seeking his own security, his own particular path? We are not loved because we don't know how to love.”

 

“NONE OF THE agonies of suppression, nor the brutal discipline of conforming to a pattern has led to truth. To come upon truth the mind must be completely free, without a spot of distortion.”

“In all our relationships each one of us builds an image about the other and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves... The actual relationship between two human beings or between many human beings completely ends when there is the formation of images.”

“Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti