Quotation Saturday

HATE
 
A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
~E. Stanley Jones
 
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
~Karl Kraus
 
Hate cages all the good things about you.
~Terri Guillemets

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
~Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. 
~James Baldwin

GOSSIP
 
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
~Dolley Madison

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
 ~Douglas Adams

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ~Frank A. Clark

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.
~Benjamin Franklin

WRITING
 
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
~Ray Bradbury
 
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
~E.L. Doctorow

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
~Sylvia Plath

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. 
~Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

LOVE
 
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~Mother Teresa

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
~Charles Morgan

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
~Kahlil Gibran

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière