#ge

And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#beauty

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now? ↗

— Megan Chance

#impatience #men #patience #men

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#active #doing #genius #least #lofty

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#ayn-rand #evil #evil-men #objectivism #psychopathic-personalities

There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is always smiling and agreeable. "Such a nice man," people say. "He never gets angry." The facade always covers its opposite expression. Inside, such a person is full of rage that he dares not acknowledge or show. Some men put up a tough exterior to hide a very sensitive, childlike quality. Even failure can be a role. Many masochistic characters engage in the game of failure to cover an inner feeling of superiority. An outward show of superiority could bring down on them the jealous wrath of the father and the threat of castration. As long as they act like failures they can retain some sexuality, since they are not a threat to her father. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#childhood #fear #guilt #parenthood #repression

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#foreigners #home #settling #strangers #men

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different. ↗

— Harold S. Kushner

#change

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best. ↗

— George Sand

#indiana #men

Angels had fallen, men have sinned. It does not mean that God has failed. ↗

— Toba Beta

#god #men #men

Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.' Father Ramon coughed. 'A-fucking-men,' Loup supplied helpfully. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#convent #dystopian #orphanage #toast #men