"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference."

Voltaire on Equality
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"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

Voltaire on Evil
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"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."

Voltaire on Fate
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"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature."

Voltaire on Faults
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"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright."

Benjamin, Walter on Awareness
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"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

Miller, Henry on Awareness
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"Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on Awareness
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"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."

Woolf, Virginia on Awareness
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Words
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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Adversity
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on Adversity
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"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."

Dune, Frank Herbert on Adversity
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

Eliot, George on Adversity
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Adversity
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Adversity
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"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire on Enemies
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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire on Doctors
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"You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts."

Voltaire on Devil
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on Death and Dying
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on Deception
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Twain, Mark on Denial
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on Education
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

Twain, Mark on Education
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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."

Byron, Lord on Absurdity
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"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."

Camus, Albert on Absurdity
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Absurdity
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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Affection
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"Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope."

Hunt, Leigh on Affection
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"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on Affection
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"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Affection
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"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on Affection
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Acceptance
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"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on Youth
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

Epictetus on Adversity
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