Hersenen Reptielenbrein Quotes & Sayings

What about your beloved Epictetus? Or your beloved Emily Dickinson? You want your Emily, every time she has an urge to write a poem, to just sit down and say a prayer till her nasty, egotistical urge goes away? No, of course you don't! But you'd like your friend Professor Tupper's ego taken away from him. — J.D. Salinger

How do you paint a writer's block?
Just fill it with fifty shades of black. — Ana Claudia Antunes

And it is in that which you love most that you find the greatest test. — Yasmin Mogahed

In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge. — Anand Sharma

Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted. — Dada Bhagwan

Bien predica quien bien vive.
He who lives well is the best preacher. — Miguel De Cervantes

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is. — Thomas Sowell

Say who with the what now? Well, Merry Christmas and Ho Ho Holy Crap. Just what the hell have I been yammering on about? — Qwen Salsbury

I pushed him away, catching Lee's awe that I was not only standing with a demon outside a circle, but that Al was treating me like an equal. Or maybe a favorite pet, I amended as Al caught me when I started to tilt. — Kim Harrison

Japanese often use the expression shikata-ga-nai (there is nothing you can do) as a fatalistic response to a given circumstance. They assume that circumstance is all there is; they face that shikata-ga-nai with stoic resignation. But the Christian God offers a reality far greater, a possibility of the infinite breaking through, even though the fallen world is cursed and operates within the limitations of a natural, closed mechanism. — Makoto Fujimura

Someday ... , we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience. — Dennis Lehane

Be awesome! Smile like a flower. — Debasish Mridha

If you are to become an effective gift giver, you may have to change your attitude about money. — Gary Chapman