Dysdaimonic Quotes & Sayings

For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a prodigious parallel: just as in antiquity the dysdaimonic personality could not appreciate how his mentality was bound in by his characterological (banausic, doulic) biases, so in modernity the facile or abstractivist rationalist cannot comprehend how his "rationality" merely slavishly subserves his appetites, delusions, preconceptions, ideologies, etc. — Kenny Smith

You know, you're never going to be late for a scene - the scene you're designed to be in. — Art Hochberg

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky. — Ryan Reynolds

The truth is never the problem; The problem is always the problem. — Jeff VanVonderen

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree. — Lara Stone

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived. — Thomas Merton

Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms. — Rebecca MacKinnon

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership. — Jeffrey Skilling

I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience. — Glenn Frey

So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?" — Anne Lamott

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. — J.B. Priestley

That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington. — Rick Perry