Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#ect

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ect




Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#perspective #world #life

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere. [Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007]


Cormac McCarthy


#fiction #goals #guidance #novels #perfection

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.


N.T. Wright


#hope #missions #resurrection #life

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.


Alan Clark


#better #help #how #know #more

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.


Edward Gibbon


#book-stores #books #london #reading #life

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.


James Freeman Clarke


#generation #next #next election #politician #statesman

The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union, achieved when the egocentric model of dualistic thinking is no longer dominant, we are not united with it, nor am I united with you, but we all just are. The movement from object to subject, as described in both Eastern meditation and modern psychotherapy, is training for this union, but its perception usually comes as a surprise, even when this shift is well under way. It is a kind of grace. The emphasis on sexual relations in the tantric teachings make it clear that the ecstatic surprise of orgasm is the best approximation of this grace.


Mark Epstein


#desire #dualistic-thinking #grace #meditation #objectification

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.


Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


#life #life

I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos. (h.5)


Goenawan Mohamad


#expect #hope #life #life

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.


Asa Gray


#assent #charitable #could #expect #full






back to top