Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
— Rasheed OgunlaruExpectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.
— Rasheed OgunlaruWho we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might really hate who you actually are, so then you create a sub-genus type of yourself for other people to see. But that never changes who you are. The sub-genus type won't change your genus. The only way we change who we are is by looking at ourselves in the mirror long enough to make us vomit over our disgusting waywardness and long enough to fall in love with our strengths. But you can't just fall in love with your strengths. You also need to vomit over your hypocrisies and all of your other bullshit. And you can't just vomit, either. You also have to clean it up and embrace yourself afterwards. This is how you change your genus.
— C. JoyBell C.She also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.
— Jonathan Safran FoerMistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything.
— Albert CamusMen are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
— Brandon SandersonAll this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.
— Colum McCannThe human mind and what we've achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts.
— Rasheed OgunlaruBut that, in shutting out the light of day, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker, I knew equally well. And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
— Charles DickensTomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himselfSo our condition makes escape impossible? -- we breatheand it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle.
— Rodney Hall