Carretela Quotes & Sayings

I enlarge the photo again. Nope, too blurry — Marie Lu

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. — Anton Rubinstein

This was puzzling, as the standard textbook of psychiatry at the time stated that incest was extremely rare in the United States, occurring about once in every million women.8 Given that there were then only about one hundred million women living in the United States, I wondered how forty seven, almost half of them, had found their way to my office in the basement of the hospital. Furthermore, the textbook said, "There is little agreement about the role of father-daughter incest as a source of serious subsequent psychopathology." My patients with incest histories were hardly free of "subsequent psychopathology" - they were profoundly depressed, confused, and often engaged in bizarrely self-harmful behaviors, such as cutting themselves with razor blades. The textbook went on to practically endorse incest, explaining that "such incestuous activity diminishes the subject's chance of psychosis and allows for a better adjustment to the external world."9 — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Freedom of Will" - that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order - who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful "underwills" or under-souls - indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls - to his feelings of delight as commander. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

You might be a redneck if your classes at school were cancelled because the path to the restroom was flooded. — Jeff Foxworthy

Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void. — Akkineni Nagarjuna

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't ... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. — James Gordon

Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances. — Richard Paul Evans

Maggie shook her head. I'm not calm, I'm just ... hesitant. It's like, I always think pretty soon my life will be this great story, as soon as it starts. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

That was one of the advantages of his age, that he could be sure of his mastery in every moment. — Thomas Mann

I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat. — Liberty Ross

If it is contrary to the Word of God, it isn't right. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel. — Julian Baggini