"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 | Acceptance | 25 bookmarks

"The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life."

Maxim, Samurai | Anger | 11 bookmarks

"There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."

Francis De Sales, St. | Anger | 10 bookmarks

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Death and Dying | 4 bookmarks

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity."

Santayana, George | Death and Dying | 8 bookmarks

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

Waitley, Denis | Failure | 5 bookmarks

"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya | Nature | 6 bookmarks

"Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes."

Unknown, Source | Death and Dying | 5 bookmarks

"What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?"

Roethke, Theodore | Insanity | 2 bookmarks

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

Ginsberg, Allen | Insanity | 8 bookmarks