Epicurismo Spirit Quotes & Sayings

All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion. The initial fear is that one has lost something. A cherished self-conception must be given up, and one feels diminished by it. This is mistaken, however. A person discovers that he has been made stronger by the jettisoning of this sham and disadvantageous baggage. In fact, he has become more "himself," by aligning his self-concept more closely with fact. — Steven Pressfield

Arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved. — Swami Vivekananda

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? — Zsa Zsa Gabor

Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self-dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face. — Steven Pressfield

Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations - this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves.
Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget. — Jack London

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft. — Tobsha Learner

Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would."
~ A Woman of Fortune — Kellie Coates Gilbert

You're right, super-realism is back in style. — Robert Genn

I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up. — Maya Angelou

In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile
movable. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil — Napoleon Hill

This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley. — Sarah Lacy

What's this?" I asked.
"I was hoping you could tell me," she said. "It arrived a few weeks ago, left on my doorstep. At first, I thought it was some sort of gift from Malachi - even though this isn't his style."
"Right," agreed Adrian. "Grenades, camo vests ... those are his usual gifts of choice. — Richelle Mead

A legislative entrepreneur ... doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable. — Matt Kibbe

Beautiful homes with beautiful flowers — Lailah Gifty Akita