Confessionism Quotes & Sayings

Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds. — Aaron Swartz

There are many changes in the weather of a day. — Pema Chodron

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering? — Matthieu Ricard

A painless lesson is one without any meaning, one who does not sacrifice anything cannot achieve anything. — Hiromu Arakawa

I had assumed 'a man's character is his fate' meant if my students worked hard they would get good grades, and if they were lazy they would fail - but any idiot could have seen that interpretation. It took no thought whatsoever, and it isn't at all what Joe was trying to teach me. No, what Joe meant was this: my character shapes what my students become, and what they become is my fate. I began to see teaching in a whole new light. From that day forward, I knew everything that happened to my students would haunt me or bless me - and I began to teach as if my happiness depended on their happiness, my successes depended on their successes, and their world was the most important part of my world. — Tucker Elliot

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors. — Samuel Beckett

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. — G.I. Gurdjieff

He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gone before those heroes, about whether they'd been at each other's throats, before everything had gone wrong. He wondered if there was a point where they realized they weren't going to make it, weren't going to beat those long odds
that in the legend that would follow, they were going to be the nameless people that failed. — Holly Black

Below the belt is a pleasure-only zone," Casey said, gesturing to her skirt. "I don't approve of fighting there. — Lauren Blakely

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. — Jean Baudrillard