“Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.”— Thomas Carlyle, Chartism, Ch. 6, 1840Share
“Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.”— Thomas CarlyleShare
“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”— Thomas CarlyleShare
“Whate'er I may have been, or am, doth rest between Heaven and myself; I shall not choose a mortal to be my mediator.”— Lord ByronShare
“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”— Maya AngelouShare
“Reciprocity is a matter of keeping the gift in motion through self-perpetuating cycles of giving and receiving.”— Robin Wall KimmererShare
“I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”— Anne FrankShare
“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.”— Rainer Maria RilkeShare
“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”— W. H. AudenShare
