Espantalho Abobora Quotes & Sayings

When we think of something, we create a mental image of it, and our image is then always filtered through our mental perception. We may meet someone one day when they are in a bad mood, we then make a false assumption that this person does not like us. We have created an image of this person, and now every time we meet them, we associate this person with our negative mental image of them. We don't interact with them as they are in this moment; we interact with how we think they are. — Joseph P. Kauffman

Every day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me. — Kiera Cass

Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader. — Unknown

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you. — Joseph O'Neill

Either sin must drown in the tears of repentance - or the soul must burn in hell. — Thomas Watson

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel. — Axl Rose

Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that ... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is! — Rudolf Steiner

When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols ... — Hermann Hesse

She merely looked at her distantly, as one does at someone who has come too close. — Paulo Coelho

Sawing the head off a thunder god with a rusty hacksaw is not easy when you are eleven years old. — David Mitchell

We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed. — Dean Kamen

That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to try to encompass the citizenry in the same box as the government is in. To say, "We're all in this together. It threatens all of us." — Howard Zinn