"What is hell?...
...I still maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies." ~Rollo May
"Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other." ~ Rollo May
"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." - Albert Einstein
"Life can only be understood backward but must be lived forward" - Soren Kierkegaard
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by frost." - J.R.R. Tolkien "
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined." - Albert Camus
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. -- Amy Bloom
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. -- Anais Nin
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
-- Elie Wiesel:
"We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad." ~ Ernest Becker
"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. " ~ Viktor Frankl
What is to give light must endure burning. -- Viktor E. Frankl
“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and featur” -- Viktor E. Frankl