#pressing

... to be in any sort of relationship where you do not express yourself, simply to keep the peace, is a relationship ruled by one person and will never be balanced or healthy. ↗

— Bronnie Ware

#healthy-relationships #relationship #life

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible. ↗

— Joseph O'Neill

#true #life

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions." (Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953) ↗

— Albert Einstein

#dissent #equanimity #expressing #knowledge #opinions

Expressing anger is a form of public littering. ↗

— Willard Gaylin

#expressing #form #public

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#belong #countries #developed countries #expressing #love

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#against #consciousness #earliest #entirety #every

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#best #concord #each #expressing #mind

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#behalf #conviction #country #dare #disregard

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#days #depressing #family #guilty #guilty pleasure

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. ↗

— Adriana Lima

#big #big city #city #city people #depressing