Enlargement Of Spleen Quotes & Sayings

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. — Mark Richard

Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil ... the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe. — Confucius

An individual's demarcations as a being, not his trespass of them, create his identity and preserve his illusion of being something special and not a freak of chance, a product of blind mutations. Transcending all illusions and their emergent activities - having absolute control of what we are and not what we need to be so that we may survive the most unsavory facts of life and death - would untether us from the moorings of our self-limited selves. — Thomas Ligotti

I want to be a worshiper with that heart-desperate to be as close to my Savior as possible, and following his every move and step. — Vicky Beeching

I didn't realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. 'I do,' I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper... When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. 'I do,' he vowed. — Stephenie Meyer

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. — Pliny The Elder

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. — Gloria Steinem

...he chose, not the disquieting road to serenity, but the serenely narrow path to eventual and total derangement. — William Gaddis

For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong! — Padmasree Warrior