56 Quotes About Enlightening

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

...people who struggle against tyranny are more psychologically healthy than those who are docile and simply conform to current ways of thinking...there is much evidence that some of the most creative people in history were driven individuals who were terribly unhappy and out of sync with their social context. Creativity itself is a form of deviant behavior that requires individuals to break from usual assumptions and understandings in developing entirely new perspectives and approaches.

There is a need, in every world, to believe in things that cannot be seen.

Life is an adventure. If you treat it as such, you'll enjoy it's happiness

Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit to which all human beings are heir. In the course of analytic time, it became apparent that -- with or without the burden of social justice -- the effort required to attain any semblance of inner freedom was extraordinary.Great literature, I then realized, is a record not of the achievement, but of the effort.

They that cannot govern themselves cannot govern others (Pg. 238).

Each one of us is litIf only one could seeThat not one way is rightWe are all part of the same light

Just last year I couldn't even get a date, and then this year… it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time.

There’s greatness in smallness. Just look into the eyes of a child.