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  • "The human heart is exquisitely fragile. Our judgments need to be gentle, our understanding deep, and our forgiveness wide." --Ron Rolheiser
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    — Ron Rolheiser


  • Marilyn Monroe
    "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
    — Marilyn Monroe


  • Simone Weil
    "Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. "
    — Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace)


  • Dr. Seuss
    "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


  • Orson Scott Card
    "I will never hurt you.
    I will always help you.
    If you are hungry
    Ill give you my food.
    If you are frightened
    I am your friend.
    I love you now.
    And love does not end."
    — Orson Scott Card (Songmaster)


  • Albert Einstein
    "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
    — Albert Einstein


  • Cate Tiernan
    "Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot."
    — Cate Tiernan


  • Apple Computer Inc.
    "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
    — Apple Computer Inc.


  • Jack Kerouac
    "And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.'"
    — Jack Kerouac (On the Road)


  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
    — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


  • "“I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.”

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    — Gretel Ehrlich


  • William Shakespeare
    "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
    — William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)


  • Maya Angelou
    "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
    — Maya Angelou


  • e.e. cummings
    "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
    any experience, your eyes have their silence:
    in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
    or which i cannot touch because they are too near

    your slightest look easily will unclose me
    though i have closed myself as fingers,
    you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
    (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

    or if your wish be to close me, i and
    my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
    as when the heart of this flower imagines
    the snow carefully everywhere descending;

    nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
    the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
    compels me with the colour of its countries,
    rendering death and forever with each breathing

    (i do not know what it is about you that closes
    and opens; only something in me understands
    the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
    nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands"
    — e.e. cummings (Selected Poems)


  • Oscar Wilde
    "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
    — Oscar Wilde


  • Paulo Coelho
    "The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility."
    — Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)


  • Anaïs Nin
    "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."
    — Anaïs Nin


  • e.e. cummings
    "nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
    the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
    compels me with the colour of its countries,
    rendering death and forever with each breathing

    (i do not know what it is about you that closes
    and opens;only something in me understands
    the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
    nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

    -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems"
    — e.e. cummings


  • "How often had she wondered what would have happened if she'd remained with Jonathan? Not often, but regularly over the years. It was impossible not to have imagined that rejected future, a life of many countries, of vast and enduring adventure, of tiny rooms and rental houses. It was the sense of missed opportunity that returned to her, frightening but real, overwhelmingly real."
    — Michael Stein (In the Age of Love)


  • Dr. Seuss
    "A person's a person, no matter how small."
    — Dr. Seuss


  • Patrick Jones
    "'What do you think it is to be normal?'
    'Why in the world would you want to be?' she says.
    'I don't know. I guess that's the problem.'
    'I don't think normal is that great.'
    'But so many people choose it,' I reply.
    'I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.'
    'Well, why do we choose the hard road?'"
    — Patrick Jones (Nailed)


  • Jack Kerouac
    "[...] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
    — Jack Kerouac (On the Road)


  • "Athletes rejected, governors corrected
    Gangsters, thugs and smugglers are thoroughly respected
    The money gets divided
    The women get excited
    Now I'm broke and it's no joke
    It's hard as hell to fight it, don't buy it!
    "
    — Grandmaster Flash (The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats)


  • Albert Einstein
    "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
    — Albert Einstein


  • "To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't. "
    — Schopenhauer


  • Roald Dahl
    "And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
    — Roald Dahl


  • Rainer Maria Rilke
    "The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.
    "
    — Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)


  • Philip K. Dick
    "It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
    — Philip K. Dick


  • Tonya Hurley
    "Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out."
    — Tonya Hurley (Ghostgirl)


  • Elizabeth Gilbert
    "People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

    A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

    A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..."
    — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)


  • Tim Burton
    "Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works?
    Bunny Breckinridge: Sure."
    — Tim Burton


  • Marlene Dietrich
    "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
    — Marlene Dietrich


  • Sylvia Plath
    "His lyrical whistle beckoned me to adventure and forgetting. But I didn't want to forget. Hugging my grudge, ugly and prickly, a sad sea urchin, I trudged off on my own, in the opposite direction toward the forbidding prison. As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.
    The Tide ebbed, sucked back into itself. There I was, a reject, with the dried black seaweed whose hard beads I liked to pop, hollowed orange and grapefruit halves and a garbage of shells. All at once, old and lonely, I eyed these-- razor clams, fairy boats, weedy mussels, the oyster's pocked gray lace (there was never a pearl) and tiny white "ice cream cones." You could always tell where the best shells were-- at the rim of the last wave, marked by a mascara of tar. I picked up, frigidly, a stiff pink starfish. It lay at the heart of my palm, a joke dummy of my own hand. Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish."
    — Sylvia Plath (Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts)


  • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    "Well-behaved women rarely make history."
    — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich


  • "As grand and glorious as love is, it is not without its perils. Anyone who has felt the cruel pangs of rejection knows that love is best approached cautiously, as one would approach an angry, cornered brush-tailed possum. Yes, before throwing yourself into a relationship, it's wise to buy a sturdy pair of leather gloves, and to be extra careful of love's front claws and rows of needle-sharp teeth."
    — Michael J. Nelson


  • Pablo Picasso
    "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
    — Pablo Picasso


  • Aleister Crowley
    "The one unpardonable sin is knowingly and willfully to reject truth."
    — Aleister Crowley


  • Edgar Allan Poe
    "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
    — Edgar Allan Poe


  • "Love Dogs

    One night a man was crying,
    Allah! Allah!
    His lips grew sweet with the praising,
    until a cynic said,
    "So! I have heard you
    calling out, but have you ever
    gotten any response?"

    The man had no answer to that.
    He quit praying and fell into a confused sleep.

    He dreamed he saw Khidr, the guide of souls,
    in a thick, green foliage.
    "Why did you stop praising?"
    "Because I've never heard anything back."
    "This longing
    you express is the return message."

    The grief you cry out from
    draws you toward union.

    Your pure sadness
    that wants help
    is the secret cup.

    Listen to the moan of a dog for its master.
    That whining is the connection.

    There are love dogs
    no one knows the names of.

    Give your life
    to be one of them."
    — Jalal al-Din Rumi


  • Edgar Allan Poe
    "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
    — Edgar Allan Poe


  • Harlan Ellison
    "Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed."
    — Harlan Ellison


  • Joan Crawford
    "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."
    — Joan Crawford


  • Tom Waits
    "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away."
    — Tom Waits (The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983)


  • Marilyn Monroe
    "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
    — Marilyn Monroe


  • "I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!"
    — Jean Anouilh (Antigone)


  • Marilyn Monroe
    "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
    — Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)


  • Sylvia Plath
    "I felt wise and cynical as all hell."
    — Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)


  • Horace Mann
    "A house without books is like a room without windows."
    — Horace Mann


  • Sylvia Plath
    "Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."
    — Sylvia Plath


  • Harper Lee
    "Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”

    “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”

    “The way you tell it, it is."
    — Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)



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