“ Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it. Rasheed Ogunlaru
“ You're doing your thing, why can't I do my thing? I must be me even if I suffer for it. Iris Murdoch
“ Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus rem… William Styron
“ I closed my eyes and turned my face into the cold wind. When I felt it swept along my skin there was no past. No future. Just now. Nina Hrusa
“ I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood. Keri Hulme
“ But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet… Patricia Highsmith
“ Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is,… Criss Jami
“ I love widely and deeply, the Naive sense of Primitivism I manage to project in my Art. It always gives me a sense that it is not developed or derived from anything else, and it is unaffected by objec… Efrat Cybulkiewicz
“ False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit. Criss Jami
“ In this era, there are all kinds of prakrutis (personality of the relative self), so how can it work without adjusting? Dada Bhagwan
“ In order to make the egoism non-existent [zero], the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] establishes the awareness of the Pure Soul within. Dada Bhagwan
“ My younger self had come back to shock my older self with what that self had been, or was, or was sometimes capable of being. And only recently I’d been going on about how the witnesses to our lives d… Julian Barnes
“ Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator. Israelmore Ayivor