Halida Repovac Quotes & Sayings

social isolation and lack of self awareness can occur partly because there are simply no words to tell the story. — Onno Van Der Hart

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. — Peter Singer

I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own, between absolute submission and determined revolt. I have always faithfully observed the one, up to the very moment of bursting, sometimes with volcanic vehemence, into the other. — Charlotte Bronte

Habit enables us to cling to the familiar, to the self we think we know with a persistence almost irresistible. An anodyne for the terror of the unknown, it effectively keeps us from knowing, and is fatal in itself. Habit is a fiction the organism requires to dim perception. It screens us from the world, and from the true world of the self. Habit - no matter how intense the suffering it causes - is the last thing the personality will give up. It is arming itself against danger. The weapons may be more painful to use than the pain they seek to deflect. No matter. Habit allows us to live - by which Proust means it allows us to exist while it simultaneously compels us to miss Life. — Howard Moss

What is inadmissible, both morally and scientifically, is the hubris that pretends to understand the behavior of human agents without for a moment listening systematically to how they understand what they are doing and how they explain themselves. — James C. Scott

Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one. — Harry Callahan

Okay, but if you try to get me to pray with you, I walk. — Richelle Mead

Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a shame I didn't lose a few, then screw you, Mom. Try harder. — Julie Murphy

It is self- deceptive to simply lie in bed, letting everything run its cause and yet expect to have increase — Sunday Adelaja

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them. — Charles D. Broad

Beauty and the devil are the same thing. — Robert Mapplethorpe

If I had been a more realistic and reasonable person, if I had not been twenty-one and still fooling myself, I would have said, Wait. — Amy Bloom

All the poetry in the world is in that face. — Christopher Isherwood

Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes. — Barbara Kingsolver