Cheick Mounirou Quotes & Sayings

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness. — Robert Breault

Isolation, anchoring, distraction, and sublimation are among the wiles we use to keep ourselves from dispelling every illusion that keeps us up and running. Without this cognitive double-dealing, we would be exposed for what we are. It would be like looking into a mirror and for a moment seeing the skull inside our skin looking back at us with its sardonic smile. And beneath the skull - only blackness, nothing. Someone is there, so we feel, and yet no one is there - the uncanny paradox, all the horror in a glimpse. A little piece of our world has been peeled back, and underneath is creaking desolation - a carnival where all the rides are moving but no patrons occupy the seats. We are missing from the world we have made for ourselves. Maybe if we could resolutely gaze wide-eyed at our lives we would come to know what we really are. But that would stop the showy attraction we are inclined to think will run forever.8 — Thomas Ligotti

I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton

We are all capable of much more than we think we are. — Laozi

Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance — Amit Abraham

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it. — Vavasor Powell

I don't know who you are. But I do know that every time I see you, I feel better. -Dylan — Melissa De La Cruz

Concerning the limits and limitations of the women's game - why should we believe there are any? — Helen Wills

When I see old friends, I'm very excited. — Chino Moreno

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs? — David Attenborough

Hey!" Marty protested. "I have the best gaydar around."
"Except when you're wrong. Like that construction worker?"
"I'm not wrong just because they won't admit it. — Kaje Harper

The very concept of a loving personal creator was only ever a secondary invention, a grinning wicker man thrown together in antiquity and stood in place as a chimerical response to a world whose everyday works betray the fantasy in every possible way. — John Zande

Darkness isn't bad. It's only darkness." Those fingers relaxed. "All it means is you don't see the world as they do. You see what's really there. They see what they wish was there. — Leah Raeder

It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil. — N.K. Jemisin

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak. — Harvey Weinstein