Don’t try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/630701-don-t-try-to-win-over-the-haters-you-are-not
Feb 072014
Feb 062014
Vulnerability is not weakness. It is our greatest measure of strength.
Feb 052014
I never, till now, had a friend who could give me repose; all have disturbed me, and, whether for pleasure or pain, it was still disturbance. But peace overflows from your heart into mine.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Feb 042014
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
– Victor Hugo, Villemain
Feb 032014
On résiste à l’invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion des idées.
One translation: No one can stop an idea whose time has come.
Another translation: While it is possible to resist military might, an invasion of ideas cannot be stopped.
– Victor Hugo, History of a Crime
http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2011/02/nothing-is-more-powerful-than-idea.html
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo
Feb 022014
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
– Lord Byron, Mark Twain, Tom Clancy
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
– G. K. Chesterton
Feb 012014
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/03/anais-nin-love-debbie-millman-1/