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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 57971fd | We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. | mortality | Colum McCann | |
| e6d3b13 | Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give. | Colum McCann | ||
| 64bfbe7 | We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think? | cold pain winter | Craig Thompson | |
| 8723437 | We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one more wretchedly alone than the priest who does not measure up to his task. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 405b413 | On a scale from one to ten," Captain Krasnitsky muttered, "I give this trip a negative four hundred." -- | David Weber John Ringo | ||
| c308e10 | I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong | religion | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 0dad679 | They just had to be patient. Destiny would bring them what they needed, yet again. | patience | Danielle Steel | |
| 22d53ab | You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for. | Danielle Steel | ||
| fecf869 | John doesn't know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him. It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. Just this nervous weakness I suppose. | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ||
| 1493395 | We are accustomed to think of ourselves as an emancipated people; we say that we are democratic, liberty-loving, free of prejudices and hatred. This is the melting-pot, the seat of a great human experiment. Beautiful words, full of noble, idealistic sentiment. Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peopl.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 22735e8 | Yes, he knows how to build a fire, but I know how to inflame a cunt. | Henry Miller | ||
| 60a29bd | God knows, when spring comes to Paris the humbles mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise....it [is] the the intimacy with which his eye rests upon the scene. It [is] his Paris. A man does not need to be rich, nor even a citizen, to feel this way about Paris. Paris is filled with poor people - the proudest and filthiest lot of beggars that ever walked the earth... And yet they give the illusion of being at home. It is that which d.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 301c34c | the art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence of a way of life, which, if it is not crazy is certainly different from the accepted way of life... For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal. | Henry Miller | ||
| acfb2b3 | I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision. | Henry Miller | ||
| 656b9d7 | We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing us, not the future. The future always has and always will belong to--the poet. | Henry Miller | ||
| d9e5a91 | He told me was seeking contributions to the Jimmy Carter Library. I asked how much he had in mind. And he said, " Donald, I would be very appreciative if you contributed five million dollars."I was dumbfounded. I didn't even answer him.But that experience also taught me something.Until then, I'd never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts.. | Donald J. Trump | ||
| fc3fcf1 | Since 2001, the U.S. government has abandoned its role as a champion of human rights and has perpetrated terrible and illegal abuses in prisons in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, sent prisoners secretly to other nations to be tortured, denied the applicability of the Geneva Convention restraints, and severely restricted time-honored civil liberties within our own country. Certain political leaders of other nations, who are inclined to perpetrate.. | Jimmy Carter | ||
| 8f99386 | What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth century Capitalism? It needs men who co-operate smoothly in large groups; who want to consume more and more, and whose tasks are standardized and can easily be influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority, or principle, or conscience - yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected, t.. | conformity groupthink herd-mentality | Erich Fromm | |
| 5574334 | The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned, they lose their individual character. On the contrary, the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology and arranged the means to give satisfactions wh.. | individual individualism insanity originality pathology sanity society | Erich Fromm | |
| 66f1016 | What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow, it decays; if it does not transcend the status quo for the better, it changes for the worse. Often we, the individual or the people who make up a society, have the illusion we could stand still and not alter the given situation in the one or the other direction. This is one of the most dangerous illusions. The moment we stand still, we begi.. | evolution humanity humanity-and-society individual society stagnation transformation | Erich Fromm | |
| 8b502e6 | Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality. | Erich Fromm | ||
| fb7e52e | the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of the inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking. The word power has a twofold meaning. One is the possession of power over somebody, the ability to dominate him; the other meaning is the possession of power to do something, to be able, to be potent. The l.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| c259d16 | Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b6da0c5 | Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 79f7833 | Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together. | screenwriting writing writing-life writing-process | Darlene Craviotto | |
| 4b0fede | You see, even after decades of therapy and workshops and retreats and twelve-steps and meditation and even experiencing a very weird session of rebirthings, even after rappeling down mountains and walking over hot coals and jumping out of airplanes and watching elephant races and climbing the Great Wall of China, and even after floating down the Amazon and taking ayahuasca with an ex-husband and a witch doctor and speaking in tongues and fa.. | Carrie Fisher | ||
| 0824680 | Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life. . . . There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom. . . . It's those skill sets that really make that happen." This" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 205265f | If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e7ca282 | The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4e02fde | If you let pride stop you, you will hate life | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 05b4293 | People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8b3140f | There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves | Milton Friedman | ||
| 245e213 | Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place." | religion | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f31090d | The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| b229e1b | If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to life that a pistol is still as exciting to him as it is to a schoolboy. It is just because he does not want to steal, because he does not covet his neighbour's goods, that he has captured the trick (oh, how we all long for it!), the trick of coveting.. | innocence | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f1011ac | The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion. | modernism snobbery | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 4229a29 | I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease. | criminology | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 06433b9 | It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7eb4b3f | My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 13a1224 | the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. | humor humour jokes | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 24b8859 | Sirs, I am but a nameless man, A rhymester without a home, Yet since I come of the Wessex clay And carry the cross of Rome, I will even answer the mighty earl That asked of Wessex men Why they be meek and monkish folk, And bow to the White Lord's broken yoke; What sign have we save blood and smoke? Here is my answer then. That on you is fallen the shadow, And not upon the Name; That though we scatter and though we fly, And you hang over us.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 0375dd9 | It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 6a6313b | We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7f9f0a1 | If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Syme, staring. "The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation." | calm composure | G.K. Chesterton |