#disco

There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don't believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it--and almost all of us have one way or another--this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish. ↗

— James Baldwin

#self-discovery

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#enjoyment #few #friendship #greatest #highest

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#more #never #others #ourselves #than

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#chance #disaster #discovery #each #fulfillment

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#discontent #greater #men #nation #rebellion

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#discover #go #great #guide #just

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

#children #could #discovered #get #got

I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#complete #discovered #i #only #skull

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#day #despair #discover #discovered #every

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#altered #based #basis #deeply #discoveries