I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea (Monique Truong, The Book of Salt)
My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce
My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce (Joyce Brothers)
Only by knowing yourself can you live honestly and find your own path
Only by knowing yourself can you live honestly and find your own path (Gregory Bassham, The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles)
Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders
Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders (Bob Barr)
Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be
Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be (Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina)
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? – John Wooden
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? – John Wooden
Humility is a byproduct of enduring success
Humility is a byproduct of enduring success (Iimani David)
Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and endow us with the tools to understand our humanness. Reading about the lives of other people acquaints us with the hardships of other people. The authorial voices of narrative prose express our shared feelings of deprivation – Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and endow us with the tools to understand our humanness. Reading about the lives of other people acquaints us with the hardships of other people. The authorial voices of narrative prose express our shared feelings of deprivation – Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
When I first heard your voice, my heart leapt in my chest as if it recognized you as its owner from another lifetime
When I first heard your voice, my heart leapt in my chest as if it recognized you as its owner from another lifetime. (Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons)
Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is the unanimous self-deception we call mythology
Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is the unanimous self-deception we call mythology. (René Girard)