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| a1ede80 | Somehow the realization that nothing was to be hoped for had a salutary effect upon me. For weeks and months, for years, in fact, all my life I had been looking forward to something happening, some intrinsic event that would alter my life, and now suddenly, inspired by the absolute hopelessness of everything, I felt relieved, felt as though a great burden had been lifted from my shoulders. At dawn I parted company with the young Hindu, afte.. | Henry Miller | ||
| fb35f52 | At no time in the history of man has the world been so full of pain and anguish. Here and there, however, we meet with individuals who are untouched, unsullied, by the common grief. We say of them that they have died to the world. They live in the moment, fully, and the radiance which emanates from them is a perpetual song of joy [...] like the clown, we go through the motions, forever simulating, forever postponing the grand event- we die .. | Henry Miller | ||
| a4fb8e5 | government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." -- | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a754f97 | the state never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 3b64da9 | Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Viesoji nuomone - ne toks baisus tironas kaip savoji. Tai, ka zmogus galvoja apie save, kaip tik ir lemia arba greiciau rodo jo likima. | what-a-man-thinks-of-himself | Henry David Thoreau | |
| c1e0ab2 | How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 158ddab | No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9fc64c3 | A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call our duty. We loiter in winter while it is .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 506a191 | That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 0a17ba4 | Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry, -- determined to make a day of it. Why should we knock under and go with the stream? Let us not be upset and overwhelmed in that terrible rapid and.. | nature simplicity simplicity-in-life time | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 57472a3 | As Henry David Thoreau, one of the great explorers of his time, reminded himself in his journal, "It matters not where or how far you travel--the farther commonly the worse--but how much alive you are." Two" | Pico Iyer | ||
| 472c0ad | What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? | zen | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 82664d4 | The spruce and cedar on its shores, hung with gray lichens, looked at a distance like the ghosts of trees. Ducks were sailing here and there on its surface, and a solitary loon, like a more living wave, -- a vital spot on the lake's surface, -- laughed and frolicked, and showed its straight leg, for our amusement. | philosophy wildlife | Henry David Thoreau | |
| b2a603a | I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. | government politics protest | Henry David Thoreau | |
| a7e7f90 | Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is w.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| ad603b7 | mlfrq byn Hry@ lnzw@ wHry@ lrd@? n lnzw@ hy 'y rGb@ tkhrj `fwy, wdwn 'y Sl@ bnywy@ m` lshkhSy@ lkml@ w'hdfh | Erich Fromm | ||
| 62313d4 | n lm`yr l`m llnzw@hw 'nh tjyb `l~ lsw'l: "wlm l 'f`l dhlk?" wlys `l~ lsw'l: "lmdh 'f`l dhlk?" | Erich Fromm | ||
| f23a9b6 | lf`l ljnsy bdwn Hb l yqym jswran `l~ lTlq fwq lhw@ byn ky'nyn nsnyyn l lbD`@ lHZt | Erich Fromm | ||
| 1f8e066 | There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 5adecce | The Jewish and particularly the Christian traditions have stressed the element of sin but have ignored the fact that it is the emancipation from the security of Paradise which is the basis for man's truly human development. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 200c167 | A man driven to incessant work by a sense of deep insecurity and loneliness; or another one driven by ambition, or greed for money. In all these cases the person is the slave of a passion, and his activity is in reality a "passivity" because he is driven; he is the sufferer, not the "actor." On the other hand, a man sitting quiet and contemplating, with no purpose or aim except that of experiencing himself and his oneness with the world, is.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| ad0e00b | Women have been so thoroughly oppressed that they have accepted unconsciously the role that the ruling sex, man, gave to them. They have even believed in male propaganda, which is very much the same as the propaganda in other wars, wars against colonial people, etc. Women have been considered to be naive: Freud said that they were narcissistic, unrealistic, cowardly, inferior to man anatomically, intellectually, morally. The fact is that.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 61d25e3 | Faith in life, in oneself, in others must be built on the hard rock of realism; that is to say, on the capacity to see evil where it is, to see swindle, destructiveness, and selfishness not only when they are obvious but in their many disguises and rationalizations. Indeed, faith, love, and hope must go together with such a passion for seeing reality in all its nakedness that the outsider would be prone to call the attitude 'cynicism.' And .. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 47568c3 | Not so much because many occupations would not permit of a loving attitude, but because the spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself successfully against it. Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessa.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 0c88c79 | The craft passed directly below Scathach and she released her grip and dropped onto the top of the vimana alongside Joan with enough force to send the larger craft plunging down. The French immortal laughed. "So nice of you-" "Don't you dare crack any dropping-in jokes," Scathach warned before her friend could finish. The vimana dipped and spun, but the two women had firm grips on the transparent dome and held on while the pilot tilted the .. | Michael Scott | ||
| 9bd1d60 | Fighting emotions is like flailing in quicksand--it only makes things worse. Sometimes, the most proactive "defense" is a mental nod and wink." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| eb5441b | Don't save it all for the end. There is every reason not to. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 643c99d | Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 59d5b52 | The fishing is best where the fewest go, | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d99cfcb | For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 22e68d5 | the major fears of modern man could be boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c63de2b | Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitant to get in the way if you're moving. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c16ea21 | We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." --Archilochus" -- | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 82af438 | You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f9ed839 | One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. --BRUCE LEE | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 03d87f3 | every day, it's something to reflect on and think about 'How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8b36063 | In the past century a myth has grown up that free market capitalism--equality of opportunity as we have interpreted that term--increases such inequalities, that it is a system under which the rich exploit the poor. Nothing could be further from the truth. Wherever the free market has been permitted to operate, wherever anything approaching equality of opportunity has existed, the ordinary man has been able to attain levels of living never d.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 0fda000 | Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 0393295 | T]he horrible thing about all legal officials, even the best, about all judges, magistrates, barristers, detectives, and policeman, is not that they are wicked (some of them are good), not that they are stupid (several of them are quite intelligent), it is simply that they have got used to it. Strictly they do not see the prisoner in the dock; all they see is the usual man in the usual place. They do not see the awful court of judgment; the.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 5e92c47 | All that is mere rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance and terror) is in the person who admits there can be angels but | superstition | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 310d054 | I know he is really happy, and yet I can never catch him at it. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 84e815e | An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong. | church orthodoxy | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 96c9df8 | What a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 1e1b8b6 | The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary. | revolution | G.K. Chesterton |