January 2012
“When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or...”
– Rousseau
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”
– Buddha
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body...”
– Louisa May Alcott (Rose In Bloom)
“What we are trying, in all these discussions and talks here, is to see if we...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti | Zeitgeist (via nathanielstuart)
“Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or...”
– CS Lewis
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically...”
– William James
psychology notes.: "Relationships are not static... →
psychotherapy:
(via Psychology Today’s recent cover story, “Are You With the Right Mate?”)
“…Romance itself seeds the eventual belief that we have chosen the wrong partner. The early stage of a relationship, most marked by intense attraction and infatuation, is in many ways akin to cocaine intoxication,…
“The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.”
– Socrates
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something or...”
– Ambrose Redmoon
“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world,...”
– Franz Kafka (via quotewhore)
“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you...”
– Terence Mckenna (via nathanielstuart)
“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalised...”
– Arthur Evans (via lucifelle, slychedelic) (via nathanielstuart)
Welcome to the true face of college within the American Dream.
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky....”
– Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (via caitlinthinks
)
“Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a...”
– Edward Everett Hale (via nathanielstuart
)
“Obama’s list included all the major banks and bailout recipients, plus a...”
– Read more from Matt Taibbi here. (via jerriann)
Your vote counts, but not really.
(via nathanielstuart)
“So the myth in our society is that people are competitive by nature and that...”
– Dr. Gabor Maté (via cultureofresistance)
I could not have articulated those observations and their consequences any better.
“The obstacle is the path.”
– Zen proverb (via lucifelle)
“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.”
– Montesquieu
Something every lawmaker should keep in mind.
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. ...”
– William Faulkner
“Her hermetism was not odd. Although she seemed expansive and cordial, she had a...”
– One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou...”
– -Marcus Aurelius
It’s been a couple months, but what better quote to start with than this one? It’s a new year.
November 2011
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”
– Plato
“Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are...”
– William James
“Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.”
– Virgil
“What is healing but the removal of all that stands in the way of knowledge.”
– Helen Schucman (via heartmindspirit)
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”
– Carl Jung (via lucifelle)
“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do...”
– Lao Tzu (via lucifelle)
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when...”
– Oscar Wilde
Alone as a crowd: the latest example of the... →
October 2011
“What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw...”
– Virgil
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
– William James
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than...”
– Seneca
“If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the...”
– William James
“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
– ~ John Locke
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
– Seneca
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral...”
– Confucius
“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what...”
– Descartes
“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”
– Epictetus
“How many are the things I can do without! Socrates”
– Socrates
“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and...”
– Plato
“To live is to think.”
– Cicero
This is my new favorite quote for a while. I find it eponymous with the name of and reasoning behind this blog.
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are...”
– Martin Heidegger
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou...”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.”
– Seneca
So very true