#resent

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#actor #animosity #dead #every #living

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? ↗

— William O. Douglas

#awe #been #bow #expected #represent

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#anything #before #claims #else #enlightenment

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#always #among #breed #children #discipline

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#happiness #history #past #present #age

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#decrease #desire #growth #must #only

Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear? Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for fear of the unknown. (Narcotics Anonymous Book/page 33) ↗

— Narcotics Anonymous

#fear-of-unknown #narcotics-anonymous #resentment #anger

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#resentment #anger

Tis the old wind in the old anger, But then it threshed another wood. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#past #present #wind #anger

Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece. ↗

— Kakuzō Okakura

#representation #art