I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does —Virginia Peterson More about this quote Tags: mind memory experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In memory everything seems to happen to music. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Tags: memory perception music Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them? —R.A. Salvatore More about this quote Tags: past perception self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: reality gratitude memory past perception bounty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences. —Mary Parker Follett More about this quote Tags: war living reconciliation difference Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide. —Paul Valéry More about this quote Tags: commonality hidden difference Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: understanding empathy fear knowledge communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. —Tryon Edwards More about this quote Tags: future mistakes past regret apology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. —Peace Pilgrim More about this quote Tags: power wrong right righteousness opposition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: power impotence weakness change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The moral high ground is wreathed in fog. —Arthur Miller More about this quote Tags: morality righteousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: ignorance wrong rejection deny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The situation of the world is still like this. People completely identify with one side, one ideology. ... Reconciliation is to understand both sides, to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then to go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. Doing only that will be a great help for peace. —Thích Nhất Hạnh More about this quote Tags: understanding empathy peace identity ideology reconciliation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. —Solomon Short More about this quote Tags: war history humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: politics peace people governments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email