“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.” – La Rochefoucauld

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.” – Aldous Huxley

“If all values are equal, then cannibalism is just a matter of taste.” – Leo Strauss

“When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” – Abraham Maslow

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” – Lao Tzu

“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.” – Lawrence Peter

“The smartest of a large number of hamsters is still a hamster.” – Fred Reed

“Misogyny is when men hate women the way that women hate each other.” – H. L. Mencken

“We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.” – Andre Maurois

“Civilization is nothing more than the attempt to make violence a last resort.” – Jose Ortega y Gassett

“The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.” – Frederick Douglass

“When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn’t she behave like a nice man?” – Edith Evans

“There’s only one way to improve society: present it with a single improved unit: yourself.” – Albert Jay Nock

“The amount of energy needed to refute b—s— is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” – Alberto Brandolini

“Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ” – W. Somerset Maugham

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him go!” – Martin Luther

“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“Queer thing, but we always think every other man’s job is easier than our own. And the better he does it, the easier it looks.” – Eden Phillpotts

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” – T. S. Eliot

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson

“If you talked to your friends the way that you talk to yourself, you wouldn’t have any friends.” – Mike Cernovich

“Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” – David Lloyd George

“The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve others. We become more substantive as we serve others—indeed, it is easier to ‘find’ ourselves because there is so much more of us to find!” – Spencer Kimball

“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” — Fulton J. Sheen

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.” — Tom Robbins

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” — Kurt Vonnegut

Piglet: “How do you spell ‘love’?” Winnie the Pooh: “You don’t spell it…you feel it.” — A.A. Milne, Winnie the Poo

“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” — Oscar Wilde

“Growth and comfort never coexist.” – Ginni Rometty

“Love is a product of what we put into a relationship.” – Terryl & Fiona Givens

“Most people give away their happiness the minute someone does something different than what they wanted them to do. Most people, when someone doesn’t do what they said they were going to do, then they’re pissed off. That’s part of life! I’m not going to sit around and suffer. Suffering is when you’re constantly measuring what people did or didn’t do, or what *you* did or didn’t do, and if you really want to take your life to the next level, you’ve got to focus on what you’re here to give instead of what you’re here to get. It’s that simple.” – Tony Robbins

“If you want to have a great relationship, the first thing you have to do is commit to a life of living in a beautiful state.” – Tony Robbins

“The more you make a relationship about what you’re getting, the weaker the relationship is. An intimate relationship is not a place you go to get things; if you do that, you’re always going to be disappointed. It’s a place you go to give. If you can fall in love with someone so much that you live to light them up, and lighting them up lights you up, done deal.” – Tony Robbins

“Take counsel from your courage, not your fear.” – Judy Robinett

“I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.” – Tyler Kent White