#path

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#life #life

First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography. ↗

— Jesse Ball

#paths #life

Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human being Is forced to fight against himself. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#sympathy #life

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#motherhood #mothers #parents #parents-and-children #sympathy

Why does finding out someone has pain in their life make you appreciate them more as a human being? Shouldn't we all assume everyone we meet has their own pain? ↗

— Dalya Moon

#life

I'm an 'intelligent' sociopath. I don't have problems with drugs, I don't commit crimes, I don't take pleasure in hurting people, and I don't typically have relationship problems. I do have a complete lack of empathy. But I consider that an advantage, most of the time. Do I know the difference between right and wrong, and do I want to be good? Sure. ... A peaceful and orderly world is a more comfortable world for me to live in. So do I avoid breaking the law because it's 'right'? No, I avoid breaking the law because it makes sense. ↗

— M.E. Thomas

#psychopath #psychopathy #social-stability #society #sociopath

So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, to feel no compunction, with your own hand to throttle down whatever ghostly life remains in you. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#life

When all ways are lost the way is clear. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#life

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy. ↗

— Dizzy Gillespie

#homeopathy #musicians #life

Children who find a single important life in the ordinary, unimportant, and unheroic are less likely to succumb to the human fallacy of us versus them. ↗

— Betty Levin Betty Levin ("Polar Bears and Lemmings

#life