Nietzsche wrote, "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man."
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
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Emily Dickinson wrote, "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all."
Tennessee Williams said, "We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
Christopher Lasch said, "Family is a haven in a heartless world."
Mother Teresa said, "I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
"A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together." Chuck Jones
"Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." Helen Keller
"A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing." Painter William Dobell
Gandhi said, "I have seen children successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
"Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man." John Morley
Ralph W. Sockman said, "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength."
"The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it's taken place." George Bernard Shaw [NOTE: This quote is falsely attributed to Shaw and was actually first published in a Fortune Magazine article by William H. Whyte in September 1950, approximately two months before Shaw died.]
"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." Eric Schmidt
Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, "And out of the darkness came the hands that reached thro' nature, moulding men."
"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another, it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden." The Buddha [NOTE: This quote is often misattributed to the Buddha, and the earliest match that could be located was in a 1962 book published by Bukkyō Dendō Kyōka titled The Teaching of the Buddha.]
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