THE REASON IS YOU [storage 3.0]

[Sheogorath]

[spoiler= some good quotes mmm]Euripides said, “When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”

Confucius once said, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

Gandhi said, “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary.  The evil it does is permanent.”

Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

Plato wrote “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

Dale Turner mused “Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes.  The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.”

“There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.”  Ecclesiastes 7:20

Robert Kennedy once said “Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles.” Charles Chaplin.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

Dostoyevsky once said, “Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him.”

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.” – Ben Okri.

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” – Tom Stoppard.

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” – Anatole France.

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." – Ernest Hemingway.

Wendell Berry said, “The past is our definition.  We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.  But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”

“There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world.  The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.” Gilbert Parker.[/spoiler]

[spoiler=redemption quotes mmm]"Redemption can be found in hell itself if that's where you happen to be." LIN JENSEN

"Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it." JOSS WHEDON

"Understanding and tenderness would arise among us no matter how bad things got, and we found redemption in the very places we hurt most." LIN JENSEN

"The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption." DEAN KOONTZ

"True redemption is seized when you accept the future consequences for your past mistakes." EDUARDO MACEDO

"It's not too late, it's never too late." THREE DAYS GRACE
[/spoiler]