John Quotes
War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.
Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.
One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.
It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about.
The past is recorded almost exclusively in the voices of elites and males, in the viewpoints of the wealthy and the powerful, in the visions of the literate and the educated.
We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity …
More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world.
Remember, everyone you meet is really trying to do the best they can. No one woke up today and intentionally decided to be mean, difficult, or unreasonable - including you.
Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.
But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)
It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.
If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.
Come to the woods, for here is rest, ...climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
O lead me onward to the loneliest shade, The darkest place that quiet ever made, Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold And shut up green and open into gold.
I ‘am shaggy as rivers, forests and mountains My eyes see the universe natural and super My mind is of many cuts Non-identical I have fought demons Half-horse, half alligator I ‘am victorious, I bled
Peace is not the absence of chaos or conflict, but rather finding yourself in the midst of that chaos and remaining calm in your heart.
That’s what I’d ask you to do: Hope for peace. Because I know that I would love to be able to lay down my weapon and get to being a colonist. Just like you are. Just like I want to be.
Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn’t the same thing as easy.
You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.
Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World.
When the guy kissed her, Cassidy felt a stab of pain that was close to physical, and therefore within the penumbra of hurts he told himself he could bear.
Well to be fair, I said, I mean she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have to handle it. And you do.
I'm not afraid to dieno today . . . maybe tomorrow.But I'll not dieno today . . . maybe tomorrow.Tomorrow I will go awayfrom this life that I've just borrowed!
Many people will tell that it is not for a man to cry, but they may not know how is to feel your head empty and only tears will come out to stand up for you.
Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things.
Opening to love will always involve risk, but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy.
When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim, the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again.
Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.
Whether idyllic or defective, relationships are the fabric of life.
There's more at stake from the ripples we make than simply passing through.
When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement.
When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive.