Words & Letters
“If you have to point at an enemy, our greatest enemy is apathy. We’d be able to achieve fantastic results if we were not trapped by the idea that nothing can be changed.” — Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”―Rainer Maria Rilke
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” ― Robert Frost
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” ― Michelangelo Buonarroti
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Aldous Huxley
“A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“This is fine.”―KC Green
“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
―Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
“Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.” ― Plutarch
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary