Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: action knowledge morality regret bad good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A person who believes … that there is a whole of which one is part, and that in being a part, one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: God belief desire denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: hope darkness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Acceptance is hard. To accept my pain means holding it in my arms, like a package handed to me, my proper burden to be carried. The package may be heavy as lead, or burning hot, or stuck through with razors, but I must concede that it is my package, simply because it has arrived in my life. It is not a mistake. It has not been sent by accident to the wrong person. I may not welcome it, but accepting it means I carry it without protest for as long as necessary — and then I lay it down. —Jeanne Duprau More about this quote Tags: acceptance mistakes pain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Tolstoy's illness dried him up, burnt something out of him. Inwardly he seemed to become lighter, more transparent, more resigned. His eyes are still keen, his glance piercing. He listens attentively, as though recalling something which he has forgotten, or as though waiting for something new and unknown. —Maxim Gorky More about this quote Tags: history illness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man lives with himself for seventy years, and doesn't know who he is. —Israel Salanter Lipkin More about this quote Tags: life knowledge self-knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I recently invented a new theory: ambitheism. This is the doctrine that God both does and doesn't exist. I have noticed that when I try to believe in God, I am filled with sudden moments of despair that God is absent, but when I try to be an atheist, I slowly come to believe in a divine will. Thus, I have concluded that both ideas are true. God simultaneously is and isn't. —Michael Gorelick More about this quote Tags: truth God belief despair divinity atheism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious. —Robert Johnson More about this quote Tags: wonder awe personality psychology revernce unconscious Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness. —Herman Melville More about this quote Tags: wisdom sadness sanity woe madness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is the only animal who has to be encouraged to live. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Tags: humanity life animal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: words writing ideas language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A waist is a terrible thing to mind. —Jane Caminos More about this quote Tags: humor food eating dieting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. —Stanislaw J. Lec More about this quote Tags: life death punishment reward Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You’re the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will. —Veronica Roth in The Transfer More about this quote Tags: life choices decisions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. —Paulo Coelho More about this quote Tags: love reason loging Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email