#comment

Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body. As though doing no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible mold. ↗

— Jo Nesbø

#diet

It's not Americans I find annoying; it's Americanism: a social disease of the postindustrial world that must inevitably infect each of the mercantile nations in turn, and is called 'American' only because your nation is the most advanced case of the malady, much as one speaks of Spanish flu, or Japanese Type-B encephalitis. It's symptoms are a loss of work ethic, a shrinking of inner resources, and a constant need for external stimulation, followed by spiritual decay and moral narcosis. You can recognize the victim by his constant efforts to get in touch with himself, to believe his spiritual feebleness is an interesting psychological warp, to construe his fleeing from responsibility as evidence that he and his life are uniquely open to new experiences. In the later stages, the sufferer is reduced to seeking that most trivial of human activities: fun. ↗

— Trevanian

#satire #social-commentary #experience

Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#family

If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint. ↗

— Ronald A. Knox

#humor #inspiration #inspirational

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#men

http://travelsofadam.com/2012/11/trav... Here are some quotes from my book and there are plenty more... ↗

— D.C. Gallin

#humour #inspirational #social-commentary #art

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#information #maximum #minimum #newspaper #should

You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact. ↗

— Jamie McCall

#legacy #life-path #motivational #recovery #sobriety

…does not need Facebook, Twitter and Stumble Upon. She is a whole social media network all by herself. ↗