#pa

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#enough #invent #newspapers #ridiculous #suit

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#cry #feel #like #make #nice

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

#fun #get #optimism #out #pay

Did you know, that one night; one moonless, clear, shining night; with the shadowy silhouettes of trees crisp against the star-filled sky – I, on the high, level terrace of my flat, stretched out my hand! Against all odds and possibilities of unbelief and grief – a life of searchings, discontent, and a nagging sense of unreality… A spider-web intuition of a spread-out, intricate illusion that wilfully withheld the truth from me. ↗

— Radhika Mukherjee

#longing #our-particular-shadows #questioning #radhika-mukherjee #beauty

They are part of lots of sessions that makeup a hazy part of my session life. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#life #lots #makeup #part #session

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrating #generation #ignoring #immense #negative

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#good #paradise #philosophy #love

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#biggest #claims #day #either #entire

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything. ↗

— Donna Summer

#everything #god #gonna #happen #huge

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#chief #forgotten #generally #his #life