Caraka Tani Quotes & Sayings

The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it. — Nancy Mairs

Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties. — Jane Ridley

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt. — Edvard Munch

Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God. — Evelyn Underhill

To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me. — Lucy Punch

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise. — Alain De Botton

Well, widow-comforter, how is she?" Olive spoke in the dark from the bed.
"Struggling," he said.
"Who isn't? — Elizabeth Strout

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. — Jean Paul

your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive affect," than on their intensity when they hit. In — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. — John Arbuthnot

This is the real warning of Nineteen Eighty-Four: The danger comes not from our suppressors but from our ovine willingness to be suppressed. — William Giraldi

We all want to convince ourselves that it is about hard work and education and perseverance, but the truth is, life is much more about the fickle and the random. We don't want to admit it, but we are controlled by luck, by timing, by fate. — Harlan Coben