That Is Life. Quotes
George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.
Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.
Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust a white man.
For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.
Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men.
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[Camus] "The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.
Your life is a reflection… you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it.
I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.
Low-grade pain can be so rooted in your being that the pain begins to look like you, and you begin to look like the pain — it becomes your identity.
People who are hard on others are usually very hard on themselves, and the pain they inflict on others is a reflection of the pain they inflict on themselves.
Go look in the mirror and have a talk with your real boss
Look upon the world with loving eyes and the reflection everyone sees will contain love.
On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appear.
Reflection is an all-consuming, in-depth, and serious thought process that is required in a paradigm shift.
No one goes out to play anymore. Simulation is becoming reality.
The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.
Never feed someone else's dream, you will only remain as a ghost in their vision.
If life is supposed to be a theater, then somehow, we all met and played our part.
Never let a minister say you are a sinner for he or she is a sinner too. Nor never let a psychiatrist say you have a mental disorder for he or she has problems too.
You exist only because God wills that you exist.
Without inner-peace and contentment, success will ultimately destroy you.
Thus, in the boy’s mind, drink and destruction braided together. Intoxication, he concluded, was a swift and effective catalyst for havoc.
For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself.
They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.
Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!
For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.
One, don’t wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it’s going?
What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?
Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and let the shape of the story flow from that.
Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. We can unlock our lives with a pencil tip.
The most basic rule of editing is that if you can’t bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder.
Some people want what they are not willing to give.
… human needs are finite, but human greed is not …
Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!
Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.
Everything has a price, but not everything should be for sale.
Quite frankly we are both tired of the race we have been asked to run.
Run the race of life at your own pace.
About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": “What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.
For the first time in years, I have vivid dreams, vivid enough to count the stars and the number of ripples in the sea.
Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you. It will only burn what you are not, - Rumi
Life says: " Write down your experiences in a notebook, not on a blackboard. Don't start with a clean slate, but with a new page, so you can look back.
How you live does not depend so much on what life brings you as on the attitude that you approach your life with.
If you let all the bad thing in life stop you
The most valuable lessons come not from teachers or textbooks, but from life experience.
Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference.
How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.
Getting sober is a radically creative act.