Diotimus Quotes & Sayings

Well-honed attention - as evidenced in trackers, mindfulness practitioners, athletes, hunters, artists, writers, ornithologists, and more - is something quite different. It can be focused narrowly or distributed across the entire visual field at will. Its focus can be internal (on the contents of mind) or external, and it can be sustained for long periods. It is penetrating, quick, and efficient, picking up signals that are altogether unseen by the untrained eye. — Thomas Lowe Fleischner

That an organism will see the light, hear the night, or touch the wind is subject to probability. And that its perfection is in its functioning is a myth. I take it not as a right to be when probability precedes the being. Its limitations is in its functioning, then its limited right to be is in ensuring proper functioning of its systems. I often debate just how much time to give in discourse to someone whose mind refuses to communicate with his reasoning. — Dew Platt

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes. — Bob Uecker

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand. — Sarah Dessen

A perfect, enduring friendship between a couple of freaks — Stephanie Rowe

Lucilla saw Verus die, and then Lucilla died. Secunda saw Maximus die, and then Secunda died. Epitynchanus saw Diotimus die, and Epitynchanus died. Antoninus saw Faustina die, and then Antoninus died. Such is everything. Celer saw Hadrian die, and then Celer died. And those sharp-witted men, either seers or men inflated with pride, where are they? For instance the sharp-witted men, Charax and Demetrius the Platonist and Eudaemon, and any one else like them. All ephemeral, dead long ago. Some indeed have not been remembered even for a short time, and others have become the heroes of fables, and again others have disappeared even from fables. Remember this then, that this little compound, thyself, must either be dissolved, or thy poor breath must be extinguished, or be removed and placed elsewhere. — Marcus Aurelius

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you. — Jodi Picoult

Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out. — Sandra Bernhard

You can never have too much sky. — Sandra Cisneros

In times of conflict, we're all peers. — Michael Holbrook

It seemed amazing to me that one night could hold so much, from a merry-go-round to a Pop-Tart with frosting to the most beautiful singing I'd ever heard. — Sarah Dessen

Goodwill is something that can never be bought. — Richard Ayre

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information. — Charles Sturt