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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3ac536e | lm tukhtr` b`d lal@ lty tstTy` qtl l'hdf lnbyl@ | John Perkins | ||
| 3de401c | life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are. | John Perkins | ||
| 0a62ed8 | s' nfsk hdhh lsy'l@ m ldh~ tHtj l`trf bh ? kyf khd`t nfsk wlkhryn ? wm lmwqf lt~ stslmt fyh wdh`nt ? lmdh trkt nfsk ystnzfh nZm t`rf nh Zlm ? mdh stf`l ltt'kd n Tflk wkl lTfl ymknhm n yHqqw Hlm lb lmw'ssyn llmthl wlqym Hlm lHy@ wlHry@ wblwG ls`d@ ? ~ Tryq stsyr fyh lttwqf mj`t l mbrr lh wltt'kd nh ln ytkrr bd ywm mthl lHd~ `shr mn sbtmbr ? kyf tstTy` ms`d@ Tflk k~ yfhmw n lns ldhyn y`yshwn Hy@ mtrf@ wGyr mtwzn@ yjb n nrth~ lHlhm wl ntmn~ tq.. | John Perkins | ||
| 5a0eaec | In response to my question about how we might rein in the empire, he said, "That's why I'm meeting with you. Only you in the United States can change it. Your government created this problem and your people must solve it. You've got to insist that Washington honor its commitment to democracy, even when deomcratically elected leaders nationalize your corrupting corporations. You must take control of your corporations and your government. The.. | corporations empire government politics | John Perkins | |
| af5a303 | wkm ylHZ jyms jryswn ry'ys lmntd~ lqtSd~ l`lm~ :"dh 'khdhn ltslsl lmnTq~ llmwr fn ndmj l`lm f~ wHd@ wHd@ tHkmh shrwT l`wlm@ lqtSdy@ wlsmt lzy'f@ l-Hry@ lswq - nm ymthl f~ wq` lmr -Hl@ st`mry@-mfDwH@ dh lys hnk m@ `l~ lrD qdr@ `l~ mqwm@ lstqTb lqsr~ ll`wlm@ .fqlylwn hm wly'k ldhyn njw mn -lSlHt lhykly@ - wfltw mn -lshrwT- lt~ frDh lbnk ldwl~ wSndwq lnqd ldwl~ w tTlbth mnZm@ ltjr@ l`lmy@ wlmw'sst lmly@ ldwly@ lt~ mzlt rGm `dm jdwh tHdd mfhwm .. | John Perkins | ||
| 6cf5b3e | It was you, you who brought me the pardon. Pee on me, won't you. It would be like benediction. O, what a sleepwalker I have been! | Henry Miller | ||
| 69ff19e | Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures? | Henry Miller | ||
| 1d26233 | I had no time to make a world of my own: I had to stay fixed like Atlas, my feet on the elephant's back and the elephant on the tortoise's back. To inquire on what the tortoise stood would be to go mad. | Henry Miller | ||
| 245a52f | It is the obscene horror, the dry, fucked-out aspect of things which makes this crazy civilization look like a crater. It is this great yawning gulf of nothingness which the creative spirits and mothers of the race carry between their legs. | Henry Miller | ||
| 1910f69 | Today I awoke from a sound sleep with curses of joy on my lips, with gibberish on my tongue, repeating to myself like a litany - "Fay ce que vouldras!... fay ce que vouldras!"; Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. So much crowds into my head when I say this to myself: images, gay ones, terrible ones, maddening ones, the wolf and the goat, the spider, the crab, syphilis with her wings outstretched and t.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 2463e01 | He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water still in it, and he says: "I am a slave!" Every day he says it, not once, but a dozen times. And then he takes his guitar from the wall and sings." | Henry Miller | ||
| fa70911 | To move forward clinging to the past is like dragging a ball and chain. The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. We are all guilty of crime, the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power. What these powers that are in us may be no one has trul.. | imagination living-to-the-full | Henry Miller | |
| aca7fb2 | Standing in the courtyard with a glass eye; only half the world is intelligible. The stones are wet and mossy and in the crevices are black toads. A big door bars the entrance to the cellar; the steps are slippery and soiled with bat dung. The door bulges and sags, the hinges are falling off, but there is an enameled sign on it, in perfect condition, which says: "Be sure to close the door." Why close the door? I can't make it out. I look ag.. | Henry Miller | ||
| dd72a2e | The dreamers dream from the neck up, their bodies securely strapped to the electric chair. To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable. One must act as if the next step were the last, which it is. E.. | henry miller | ||
| f68ea23 | Every time I pass the concierge's window and catch the full icy impact of her glance I have an insane desire to throttle all the birds in creation. At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love - just enough to feed the birds. | Henry Miller | ||
| 2b3f855 | If there were a man who dared to say all that he thought of this world there would not be left him a square foot of ground to stand on [. . .]If now and then we encounter pages that explode, pages that wound and sear, that wring groans and tears and curses, know that they come from a man with his back up, a man whose only defenses left are his words and his words are always stronger than the lying, crushing weight of the world, stronger tha.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 5ad92a3 | If I longed for destruction it was merely that this eye might be extinguished. I longed for an earthquake, for some cataclysm of nature which would plunge the lighthouse into the sea. I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by cand.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 8068697 | Today I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity-I belong to the earth! | Henry Miller | ||
| b0cf942 | I have never found such a man! I have never found a man as generous as myself, as forgiving, as tolerant, as carefree, as reckless, as clean at heart. I forgive myself for every crime I have committed. I do it in the name of humanity. I know what it means to be human, the weakness and the strength of it. I suffer from this knowledge and I revel in it also. If I had the chance to be God I would reject it. If I had the chance to be a star I w.. | Henry Miller | ||
| a3524c8 | Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence], the only difference being that one answer corresponds more to the total needs of man, and hence is more conducive to the unfolding of his powers and to his happiness than the other. All cultures provide for a patterned system in which certain solutions are predominant, hence certain strivings and satisfactions.... The dev.. | individual meaning neurosis problem-of-human-existence religion society | Erich Fromm | |
| d1f6a51 | People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult. | psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| e2c0344 | yhm 'n n`rf 'yWa nw`in mn lwHd@ ntHdth `nh `ndm ntHdth `n lHb: hl nshyr l~ lHb kHlWin nDj lmshkl@ lwjwd? 'm 'nn ntklm `n tlk l'shkl Gyr lnDj@ llHb lty ymkn 'n tusm~ wHd@ tkfly@? | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7e0efc7 | Once the primary bonds which gave security to the individual are severed, once the individual faces the world outside of himself as a completely separate entity, two courses re-open to him since he has to overcome the unbearable state of powerlessness and aloneness. By one course he can progress to "positive freedom"; he can relate himself spontaneously to the world in love and work, in the genuine expression of his emotional, sensuous and .. | Erich Fromm | ||
| a285e2c | The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much .. | Erich Fromm | ||
| ac05cb2 | It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas or feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing is further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. Just as there is a there is a The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to .. | Erich Fromm | ||
| bcb17a5 | The common element in both submission and domination is the symbiotic nature of relatedness. Both persons involved have lost their integrity and freedom; they live on each other and from each other, satisfying their craving for closeness, yet suffering from the lack of inner strength and self-reliance which would require freedom and independence, and furthermore constantly threatened by the conscious or unconscious hostility which is bound .. | Erich Fromm | ||
| dfb7527 | Indeed the alienated person finds it almost impossible to remain by himself, because he is seized by the panic of experiencing nothingness. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 4dbb247 | The basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7d9deed | flsm@ l'ssy@ llTby`@ lnsny@ hy mqdrth `l~ m`rf@ dhth wm`rf@ m lys mnh, 'w m hw mkhtlf `nh. wm 'n y`y lnsn hdhh lHqyq@ Ht~ n`zl `n lTby`@ wbqy@ lky'nt, whdh ln`zl 'w lnfSl dh nZrn lyh mn nHyth lyjby@ ykwn lHry@, 'm mn nHyth lslby@ fhw lGtrb | Erich Fromm | ||
| afc919b | We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. | society | Erich Fromm | |
| 3a790b6 | Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4f4457b | One of my favorite quotes is by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children . . . to leave the world a bit better . . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6807609 | When You Complain, Nobody Wants to Help You | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 62dcfcb | Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. --ALBERT EINSTEIN | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fd08892 | The end product of the shorter deadline is almost inevitably of equal or higher quality due to greater focus. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b002d30 | Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. | language sports tarzan | Timothy Ferriss | |
| 04f1957 | It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks. | mastery speed | Timothy Ferriss | |
| a33ca17 | The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9a7b485 | Age doesn't matter: an open mind does. | learning | Timothy Ferriss | |
| d814ba2 | What problem do you face every day that nobody has solved yet?" or "What is a great company no one has started?" I will" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e39d8d5 | Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c1aa7b5 | Adversity doesn't build character; it reveals it. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4f340c7 | There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals for government control in their ideal form, as they might work if run by able, disinterested men free from the pressure of special interest groups. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 2b7cc73 | I want enduring love. And, if people are honest with themselves, I think that's what everyone wants. | Penny Reid |