John Quotes

All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered – it leads to a better society.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

You cannot run a scociety or cope with it’s problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.

Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion.

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

You're both living these lives you didn't choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that's supposed to mean. That's messed up.

Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks.

All decisions we’ve come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.

The truth is, living in any society is difficult. Those who become desperate with a fractured sense of security are much more prone to being taken advantaged of.

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.

Ultimately, my love saved me, for my love gave me strength. At night, when sleep was sunwilling to rescue me, I gritted my teeth and devoured my fondest memories.

Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat.

...bands fall out. But at the end of the day, they're like family. You get back together because you have to, because you're stronger together than you are apart.

Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .conquer the difficulties of the present.

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the business of living he wanted nothing to do with.

There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all.

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

Rule #1: Life is supposed to be fun!

Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.

You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.

When you are present, you are not needy.

When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love.

There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.

In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.

The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220

...as long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what's right for you... pg 102

, m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I've always been a fool.

Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don't know. But we all need something to believe in.

So I resort back to such ideology: we all have a calling. We all have an ultimate purpose. On that is laid before us by destiny or one that is positioned in the crosshairs of our long-term goals.

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

Innovation is creativity with a job to do.

Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.