Conventionalism And Culture Quotes & Sayings

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I wonder which you are. A human ... or a demon? One day you will have to decide. — Kazue Kato

When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead. — Valerie Harper

Life always fights with the thoughts against life by presenting us the excellent beauties of life! What keeps us in life is this precious efforts of life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death. — John Piper

HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred to Saturn and was employed in the rites of the Saturnalia, where it was a symbol of health and happiness. The holly is an evergreen and therefore is associated with the sun god. — Raven Grimassi

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law. — Mark Twain

The weakest are those who stay put and call it sacrifice, call it not having a choice. Because, really, there was always a choice and she - one of the cowards, she realized - was making hers now. She turned back to the window, to the identical roofs. She closed her hands over the chunni and twisted it tight. "Please. Go away. — Sunjeev Sahota

As a matter of face, Zen is at present most fashionable in America among those who are least concerned with moral discipline. Zen has, indeed, become for us a symbol of moral revolt. It is true, the Zen-man's contempt for conventional and formalistic social custom is a healthy phenomenon, but it is healthy only because it presupposes a spiritual liberty based on freedom from passion, egotism and self-delusion. A pseudo-Zen attitude which seeks to justify a complete moral collapse with a few rationalizations based on the Zen Masters is only another form of bourgeois self-deception. It is not an expression of healthy revolt, but only another aspect of the same lifeless and inert conventionalism against which it appears to be protesting. — Thomas Merton

I have heard Silvius, an excellent physician of Paris, say that lest the digestive faculties of the stomach should grow idle, it were not amiss once a month to rouse them by this excess, and to spur them lest they should grow dull and rusty; and one author tells us that the Persians used to consult about their most
important affairs after being well warmed with wine. — Michel De Montaigne

Earth, withal, is a Body, like our own, with its network of Points, dispos'd along its Meridians, - much as our medicine in China has identified, upon the Human body, a like set of Lines invisible, upon which, bead wise, are strung Points, where the Flow of Chee may be beneficially strengthen'd by insertions of Gold Needles. — Thomas Pynchon

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. — Anne Bronte

For many people, a western lifestyle equates to living in a toxic home, working a toxic job, eating toxic food, being sick from your thirties onward and eventually dying from preventable disease. — Steven Magee

I was thinking as I bent over to receive my injection, next time I'm gonna use protection. — Kool Moe Dee