Bjorling La Quotes & Sayings

Our heads are full of comparisons, needs for approval and attention, a desire to be at other places, imagining things could be better there and thus hating our reality.
We are the only ones to blame for our own suffering.
We hurt ourselves every time we think of how other people should behave according to our standards and then suffer when they appear to be individuals; every time we open a book with so many expectations about it from what we've heard and hoped it to be, and then close it in disappointment, realizing it's something totally different (maybe beautiful, inspiring and challenging, but nothing that met our expectations). — Lidiya K.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions. — Joseph Glanvill

Everything else is perspective and window dressing. — C. Robert Cargill

Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don't count - there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book, — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends. — Martin O'Malley

Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail. — Saint Augustine

It was easy to be the bad guy throughout. — Dean Cain

I prefer to subscribe to that whole, "everything happens for a reason" theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about. — Lauren Barnholdt

The claim that Islam is a religion of peace is a nicety invented by Western politicians so as either not to offend their Muslim populations or simply lie to themselves that everything might yet turn out fine. In fact, since its beginning Islam has been pretty violent. — Douglas Murray

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking
a detour, an error. — Hermann Hesse

I like stories where women save themselves. — Neil Gaiman

Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get. — Rollo May

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives. — David Levithan