#our

If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #outsmart #poetry

This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves. ↗

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#dialogue #humanity #intercourse #body-image

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#distant #hear #other #ours #people

When many voices are speaking at once, listen to the one most quiet and gentle. That’s the one worth listening to. ~ Miranda* ~ ↗

— Miranda Linda Weisz

#listen-to-your-heart #listening-to-inner-self #meditation #truth #self-worth

Stupid werewolf ninja sperm. ↗

— Molly Harper

#paranormal-romance #werewolves #werewolves

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#richard-feynmann #thought-provoking-humourous #thought-provoking

Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny. ↗

— Wil Zeus

#philosophical #thought-provoking-humourous #thought-provoking

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#laugh-at-yourself #harry-dresden

God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles ↗

— Helen Schucman

#acim #miraculous #inner-peace

Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#self-help #self-help-book