“This is an important lesson to remember when you’re having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won’t feel this way forever. Sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you’ve felt heartache. You can’t have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can’t know what it’s like to feel holy until you know what it’s like to feel really fucking evil. And you can’t be birthed again until you’ve died.” ―Kelly Cutrone
Quotes
We Become…
“We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that at last, we are disguised to ourselves.” –Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
The Greatest Test Of Courage
“The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.” –Robert G. Ingersoll
The Family
The family was not simply the sum of the connection created by a large, extended set of relations…a family…was a name, a material and symbolic patrimony, and a form of stakeholding in America… “describing a total lineage, past, present, and future.” –Eric Homberger
Can you name the book that opens up with this quote, but is not attached to the author of the quote?
Whether We Fall
“Whether we fall, by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.” –John Webster
Every Beginning Is Difficult
“Omne initium est difficile.” (Every beginning is difficult.)
Betrayal
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” –Arthur Miller
Cherish
“Cherish those who seek the truth, but beware of those who find it.” –Voltaire
For Me
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” ―Neil deGrasse Tyson
Great Minds…
“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.” ―Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
A fantastic quote from one of my favorite books. 🙂
