If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse.  You may be dead.  ~Gelett Burgess

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe?  The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.  ~Author Unknown

No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.  ~Thomas Mann


The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.  ~Anna Quindlen

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.  ~Nelson Mandela

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.  ~Jean de La Fontaine

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.  ~Robert Brault

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.  ~Arthur Christopher Benson

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity.  Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.  ~Boris Pasternak

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.  ~Samuel Johnson

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.  ~Dr. Seuss

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.  ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Labels are for filing.  Labels are for clothing.  Labels are not for people.  ~Martina Navratilova

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.  The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.  ~Albert Einstein

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.  ~John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.  ~Clarence Darrow

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.  ~Anatole France

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas.  I'm frightened of the old ones.  ~John Cage

One cannot erect, on the basis of a motive that exists only for a very few, an obligation that shall apply to everyone.  ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion