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“Whenever you are able, have a “look” inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the outer, between your external circumstances at that moment–where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing–and your thoughts and feelings. Can you feel how painful it is to internally stand in opposition to what is?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“Well, I remember!
I remember, don't worry
How could I ever forget?
It's the first time, the last time we ever met
But, I know the reason why you keep your silence up,
No you don't fool me.
The hurt doesn't show
But the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me.”

Phil Collins (1951) English musician, songwriter and actor

“Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?…I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing; but the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing; but the man who lives the span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning- that, I do not think you understand yet. A life filled with meaning is worthy of rest. I want to be worthy of rest when I am no longer here.”

Chaim Potok book The Chosen

“On the one hand I did think the war was less than righteous. On the other hand I love my country. And I valued my life in a small town and my friends and family. So I wrestled with what was, for me, at least, more torturous and devastating and emotionally painful than anything that happened in Vietnam. Do you go off and kill people if you're not pretty sure it's right? And if your nation isn't pretty sure it's right? If there isn't some consensus, do you do that? In the end, I just capitulated, and one day I got on a bus with some other recent graduates, and we went over to Sioux Falls about sixty miles away, and raised our hands and went into the Army. But it wasn't a decision; it was a forfeiture of a decision. It was letting my body go, turning a switch in my conscience, just turning it off, so it wouldn't be barking at me saying, "You're doing a bad and evil and stupid and unpatriotic thing."”

Tim O'Brien (1946) American novelist

“I would say that the feminine values are now the values of America; sensitivity is more important than truth; feelings are more important than facts; commitment is more important than individuality; children are more important than people; safety is more important than fun. I always hear women say, "Y'know, married men live longer." Uh, yes, and an indoor cat… also… lives longer. It's a fur-ball with a broken spirit that can only look out on a world it will never enjoy, but it does, technically, live longer.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

“I suppose I remain.... a believer in Art for Art's sake rather than in Art for the sake of religion, of social justice or of national glory. Nothing is more alien to me than an art which sets out to serve other purposes than those implied in the work of art in itself..”

Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) Italian painter

“If you think America is more racist now than ever, more sexist than before women could vote and more homophobic than when blow jobs were a felony, you have ‘Progressophobia’ and you should adjust your mask because it’s covering your eyes.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

“Be of love(a little)
More careful
Than everything”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

“For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“It is better to lose your life than to waste it.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

“I would rather be the hammer than the anvil”

Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.”

Arthur Koestler (1905–1983) Hungarian-British author and journalist

“Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

“I want a brighter word than bright”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“It's better to dance than to march through life.”

Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist