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6394972 The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity. opportunity inspirational chinese crisis danger John F. Kennedy
94b3fca The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. crisis insanity crazy Hunter S. Thompson
ce06e7e "One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me." suicide death cell stuck-in-a-rut crisis revelation prison Franz Kafka
96a0ed4 Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential. thriving life crisis Jeannette Walls
206abad The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. crisis modernity Antonio Gramsci
bfb414f When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims. victims crisis Gregory Maguire
133d987 ...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes. life philosophy crisis Douglas Coupland
295a5ea Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... sex wealth slavery freedom reason life love philosophy causality individual-rights objective-law volition pursuit-of-happiness commerce jobs usa economy rock-and-roll crisis economics law regulation force liberty society political-philosophy constitution government atheism capitalism tyranny trade drugs Ayn Rand
b6b6ce4 I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it. understanding life truth garbage crisis yourself Jodi Picoult
6c89548 Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience. travel death 1990s city-centre european night-club post-communist sofia bulgaria country nightlife adventure eastern-europe crisis europeans europe Bill Bryson
864dfcd If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market. keynes perfect-information crisis economics Robert Skidelsky
0398e5a Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve) interesting-perspection-of-life crisis psychology J.D. Robb
364a6f0 I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement. thoughts humour mindfulness self-deprecation distraction crisis worry Marian Keyes
af82695 A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored. crisis Michael Crichton
5c072e4 The moment when mortality, ephemerality, uncertainty, suffering, or the possibility of change arrives can split a life in two. Facts and ideas we might have heard a thousand times assume a vivid, urgent, felt reality. We knew them then, but they matter now. They are like guests that suddenly speak up and make demands upon us; sometimes they appear as guides, sometimes they just wreck what came before or shove us out the door. We answer them, when we answer, with how we lead our lives. Sometimes what begins as bad news prompts the true path of a life, a disruptive visitor that might be thanked only later. Most of us don't change until we have to, and crisis is often what obliges us to do so. Crises are often resolved only through anew identity and new purpose, whether it's that of a nation or a single human being. mortality identity love crisis Rebecca Solnit
2f7f3b2 Shall I make you a cup of tea? He asked. It was the classic response to crisis practiced throughout these islands--in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. Emotional turmoil, danger, even disaster could be faced with far greater equanimity if the kettle was switched on. War has been declared! There's been a major earthquake! The stock market has collapsed! Oh really? Let me put the kettle on.... crises crises-solution crisis tea Alexander McCall Smith
d90fcc7 It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him--the winning of a democratic election. time history truth crisis british-empire conservative-party-uk elections imperialism soviet-union united-states winston-churchill power britain democracy russia cold-war Christopher Hitchens
904c0e3 Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself. loneliness relationship crisis Richard Llewellyn
8272e60 Quote by Robert, a garcon who accepted a 'fat envelope' to leave the Balzar: Anyway it is only in moments of crisis that we find lucidity about ourselves--though only after the crisis is over. Still, that's enough lucidity for anyone. Anyway, it is all the lucidity that life will give you. The crucial thing is that is was _our choice._ We made it. We _chose_ to leave. /293 life lucidity crisis Adam Gopnik
d471e56 All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it was part of seemed to apply everywhere and maybe always. nature life pattern crisis destruction James S.A. Corey
0c4ad2e I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes. emotion crisis panic Erik Larson
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