Jeanette Winterson Quote

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions a...

It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...

Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost

The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is heali...