#cho

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#books #men

Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence. ↗

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

#life #pyschology #inspirational

We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#decisions #differences #inspirational #life #love

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on. ↗

— Norah Vincent

#mental-health #psychiatry #psychology #inspirational

It's not so much what we do that matters, but what kind of person we choose to be. ↗

— Kristi Bowman

#choice #inspirational-life #inspirational

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#attitude #business #gentleman #him #his

There is one thing that, more than any other, throws people absolutely off their balance — the thought that you are dependent upon them. This is sure to produce an insolent and domineering manner towards you. There are some people, indeed, who become rude if you enter into any kind of relation with them; for instance, if you have occasion to converse with them frequently upon confidential matters, they soon come to fancy that they can take liberties with you, and so they try and transgress the laws of politeness. This is why there are so few with whom you care to become more intimate, and why you should avoid familiarity with vulgar people. If a man comes to think that I am more dependent upon him than he is upon me, he at once feels as though I had stolen something from him; and his endeavor will be to have his vengeance and get it back. The only way to attain superiority in dealing with men, is to let it be seen that you are independent of them. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#life

My whole career I have worked with non-Western musicians and different orchestras and ensembles and choirs. ↗

— Mychael Danna

#choirs #different #i #musicians #orchestras

When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#decision-making #inspirational #life #reality #truth

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#choices #expressed #make #makes #our