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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer, (1788 – 1860)

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Schopenhauer

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”

Voltaire

Butterfly, Rouge Park, Toronto, Fall 2011 (Taken with instagram)

Rouge Park Toronto, Fall 2011 (Taken with instagram)

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi

The moment you think only of yourself, the focus of your whole reality narrows, and because of this narrow focus, uncomfortable things can appear huge and bring you fear and discomfort and a sense of feeling overwhelmed by misery. The moment you think of others with a sense of caring, however, your view widens. Within that wider perspective, your own problems appear to be of little significance, and this makes a big difference.

Dalai Lama

My foes will become nothing. My friends will become nothing. I too will become nothing. Likewise all will become nothing. Just like a dream experience, Whatever things I enjoy Will become a memory. Whatever has passed will not be seen again.

Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra:

Neutrality aids the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

airows

“People will show you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be.”

Don Draper (via whereisthecoool)

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Paul Boese

rvlvr

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via rvlvr)

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi