Affermare Quotes & Sayings

By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be. — Eckhart Tolle

To say he had doubts about this excursion, which Wyoming State University hadn't even authorized, would easily qualify for the understatement of the year. But as he pondered his reason for doing this, Ellington bit his lip, swallowed a bolus of raw fear in his throat and continued to descend, allowing the nylon rope to slip through the carabiner underneath his posterior. — Byron Tucker

Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite. — Max Scheler

Living this way, in his own presence, time took on its most extreme dimensions, and each hour seemed to contain a world. — Albert Camus

It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. — Denis Parsons Burkitt

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. — Bronislaw Malinowski

The world is not uni-cultural. We must live together rather than seeking to dominate each other. The people in the world cannot accept domination anymore. — Mohammed Morsi

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain. — Axl Rose

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works ... — Maurizio Cattelan

In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN. — Conan O'Brien

Goodness in other people and what they contribute inspire me. I love it when someone is gifted and shares it in some way so that it has a trickle-down effect. — Renee Zellweger

A man putting flowers on the grave of his wife saw a lady putting sandwiches on her husband's grave:
Man: do you really think your husband will eat those sandwiches?
Woman: yes ... , just after your wife enjoys the smell of your flowers.
A state of a wisdom. — Sameh Elsayed

Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform. — Giuseppe Verdi

Ask one hundred people to explain love. And you'll get one hundred different answers. Because love is like art, it's subjective. Fluid. Ever-changing. Evolving. Case — Kim Holden

Great. Let's get something to eat." Gray gives a long groan. "Oh, man, I've been looking forward to this. We're hitting up Cochon, right?" His eyes gleam at the prospect of eating at one of New Orleans' best restaurants. — Kristen Callihan