words I carry with me
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”— Bertrand Russell
“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no further.”— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.”— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Today I am not what I think I am or what you think I am. But what I think you think I am.”— Charles Horton Cooley
“For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”— H.L. Mencken
“He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.”— Samuel Butler
“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“There’s been a tragedy, don’t compound it with ignorance.”— The Doctor, Star Trek: Voyager
“You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.”— Wayne Dyer
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”— Malala Yousafzai
“When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”— Audre Lorde
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”— Helen Keller
“You’re afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“It’s the critics that drive improvement. It is the critics who are the true optimists.”— Jaron Lanier, The Social Dilemma
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Friendship… is born at the moment when one man says to another ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself…’”— C.S. Lewis
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”— Voltaire
“What worries you, masters you.”— John Locke
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”— Oscar Wilde