Ascesis In Greek Quotes & Sayings

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them. — Justin Vernon

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution. — Richard Dawkins

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade. — Victoria Beckham

[Christmas] holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays because that's when you're thinking about family. Are we close? Or are we not as close as other people? — Augusten Burroughs

I write because I cannot NOT write. — Charlotte Bronte

My friends, if there is one gift in my omniscience, it's the knowledge I have of just how much good is out there. When I'm disappointed in my children near and far who hurt others, I am reminded of the many souls who do not hurt others. I see a smack across the face in one part of the planet at the same time as I see a thousand hugs and kisses somewhere else. Love is everywhere. And if all the forces of good were stacked up against all the forces of evil, it would be a most unfair fight. Good would always win. My dears, good will always win. — Sean Patrick Brennan

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed. — Chris Smith

She was not happy
she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life
this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leaned? But if there were somewhere a being strong and beautiful, a valiant nature, full at once of exaltation and refinement, a poet's heart in an angel's form, a lyre with sounding chords ringing out elegiac epithalamia to heaven, why, perchance, should she not find him? Ah! How impossible! Besides, nothing was worth the trouble of seeking it; everything was a lie. Every smile hid a yawn of boredom, every joy a curse, all pleasure satiety, and the sweetest kisses left upon your lips only the unattainable desire for a greater delight. — Gustave Flaubert

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself. — Henepola Gunaratana

Wait awhile, and everything will change."
~'Griblich — Stephanie Osborn

Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise. — J.R. Ward

Where's the fun in playing with knives if you can't draw a little blood? — Donald Gorman

People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.' — Paul Mooney