Trying

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
--B.F. Skinner

Pardon

Love truth, but pardon error.
--Voltaire

Pure

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
--Louise Bogan [04.12.99]

Plunders

Capitalism plunders the sensuality of the body.
--Terry Eagleton [11.16.99]

Enclose

"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.
--Helen Rowland [12.24.02]

Important

Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.
--James Baldwin

Change

I think people don't change very much when all they have is a finger pointed at them. I think the only way people change is in relation to somebody who loves them.
--Fred Rogers

Safe

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.
--Billy (age 4) [02.15.02]

Real

Everything you can imagine is real.
--Pablo Picasso [08.27.09]

Create

I think that how we were first loved--or not--has a great deal to do with what we create and how.
--Fred Rogers

Love

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity--love. And the story of a love is not important--what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
--Helen Hayes [09.26.01]

Teach

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
--Patrick Rothfuss

Approaches

It is a very common phenomenon to feel the greatest despair just as a long-desired goal approaches.
--Graham Firchlis [07.22.10]

Known

Desire is the wish to be completely known to another.
--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [12.10.98]

Reality

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
--Henri Louis Bergson [09.19.06]

Create

What I cannot create, I do not understand.
--Richard Feynman

Plain

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
--Anthony Doerr

Bearable

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
--Carl Sagan [06.22.06]