Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it’s the safest place to hide from more pain (Ashly Lorenzana)
There’s a line in the picture where he (Johnny – The Wild One) snarls, ‘Nobody tells me what to do.’ That’s exactly how I’ve felt all my life
There’s a line in the picture where he (Johnny – The Wild One) snarls, ‘Nobody tells me what to do.’ That’s exactly how I’ve felt all my life (Marlon Brando)
When people have a hard task to do – one which stretches them – they become less concerned with trivial matters
When people have a hard task to do – one which stretches them – they become less concerned with trivial matters (Idries Shah)
You are the creator of your thoughts, thoughts create your actions, and actions create you
You are the creator of your thoughts, thoughts create your actions, and actions create you (Debasish Mridha)
Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else
Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else (William Saroyan)
The more I prayed, the more aware I became that, in order to receive God’s true blessing, my heart had to be ready to receive His love. But how could He enter my heart when it was holding so much anger and hatred? – Immaculée Ilibagiza, Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide
The more I prayed, the more aware I became that, in order to receive God’s true blessing, my heart had to be ready to receive His love. But how could He enter my heart when it was holding so much anger and hatred? – Immaculée Ilibagiza, Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide
Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes – that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not
Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes – that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great (Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure)
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone (Christian Lous Lange)
Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them
Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them (Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations)