Hyperborea Quotes & Sayings

The spirit of industrial society - a way of living organized around production and consumption.7 Our modern preoccupation with producing and consuming leads us to live on the surface level of reality and to seek our satisfaction in the finite. But the sacred is known in the depths of reality, not in the manipulation and consumption of the surface. — Marcus J. Borg

As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination, the aggregate of beings that I was, dissolved in the white light of eternity. — Frederick Lenz

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity. — Ogwo David Emenike

I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance. — Nolan Bushnell

The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry ... And whether that means selling albums or winning Grammys or people just liking your music, thats what I really want to do. — Kris Allen

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents. — Honore De Balzac

The number of times she'd said "wait and see" to herself in her thirty years of existence was way beyond counting. — Francoise Sagan

During the day you will approach the frog several times and will utter words of worship. And you will ask it to work the miracles you wish ... Meanwhile you will cut a cross on which to sacrifice it. - From a ritual of Aleister Crowley — Umberto Eco

General relativity then establishes that objects move toward regions where time elapses more slowly; in a sense, all objects "want" to age as slowly as possible. From an Einsteinian perspective, that explains why an object falls when you let go of it. — Brian Greene

I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform. — Chris Abani

According to our textbook rhetoric, Americans abhor the notion of a social order in which economic privilege and political power are determined by hereditary class. Officially, we have a more enlightened goal in sight: namely, a society in which a family's wealth has no relation to the probability of future educational attainment and the wealth and station it affords. By this standard, education offered to poor children should be at least as good as that which is provided to the children of the upper-middle class. — Jonathan Kozol

What decadence this belonging rubbish was, what time the rich must have if they could sit around and weave great worries out of such threadbare things. — Sunjeev Sahota

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. — Criss Jami