quotes about emotional pain
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? ~Katherine Mansfield
Religion is a pill best swallowed without chewing. ~Author Unknown
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence," Poems from the Pickering Manuscript
His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript. ~William Hazlitt
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. ~Ernestine Ulmer
A friend is a brother who was once a bother. ~Author Unknown
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. ~George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,1911
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. ~Alfred North Whitehead
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. ~Joyce Maynard
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ~Mahatma Gandhi An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. ~Kahlil Gibran
The great sea makes one a great sceptic. ~Richard Jefferies
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness. ~Fritz Perls
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ~Loren Eiseley
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. ~Henry H. Tweedy
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. ~Daniel Webster
