#ink

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. ↗

#argument #drinking #gin #mothers #alcohol

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. ↗

— Voltaire

#consciousness #dissolution #eternal #infinity #knowing

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel. ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#demons

No one knows more about the way you think than you do. ↗

— Seth Godin

#thinking #self-knowledge

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#drinking #alcohol

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#cat #cats #come #different #different types

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. ↗

— Julien Benda

#died #history #jesus #jesus christ #smile

Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#logical-thinking #love #faith

Say NO to negativity and say YES to positivity. Negativity has no place in your life. ↗

— Stephanie Lahart

#positive-thinking #attitude

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it. ↗