Quotes
There are no wrong notes when sung from the heart. -Glen Hansard
That's where happiness lies; in the details. Happiness lies in small, particular things. Gloom and depression are general. But happiness is always specific. -Garrison Keillor
The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. -Joseph Campbell
If I could do everything, then there's no reason for hope. -Michael J. Fox, on the importance of hope, and his experience of Parkinson's Disease
For the first time in human history, most of the stories about people, life, and values are told not by parents, schools, churches, or others in the community who have something to tell, but by a group of distant conglomerates that have something to sell. -George Gerbner, media researcher
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -Martin Luther King
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. -Samuel Adams
Illness of the mind is real illness....As organs go, the brain is quite an important one, and its malfunctions should be addressed accordingly. -Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not
Speak
Whispers the o'er fraught heart and bids it
Break.
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth