The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

John Updike

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Theodore Dreiser

The Beloved's Loveliness owns a hundred thousand faces; gaze upon a different fair one in every atom; for She needs must show to every separate thing a different aspect of Her beauty.

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidenceYou believe that the story is true, because you responded to it from that sense of truth deep within you. But that sense of truth does not respond to a story's factuality...[rather] to a story's causality - whether it faithfully shows the way the universe functions.

Orson Scott Card

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Alanis Morissette

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Jos

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Albert Einstein

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Bell Hooks