Immersed Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future. — Gretchen Rubin

Most of us no longer have the luxury of asking whether a job is genuinely productive, but only whether it pays well and has tolerable conditions. — Susan Neiman

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

New beginnings always had something special - starting at the bottom and making it to the top produced something magical. When you reach your destination, your goal, that's when it really hits home. Maybe that's why I felt the way I did. I knew I was just a kid, but eventually I'd become something much more. Eventually I'd be at the top. Someday. — Alex Rogers

A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

I probably sensed the serious formality of the ceremonies and felt what others were feeling then. Looking back, I'd guess that it had opened up a gaping hole in my psyche. In the process of creating art, I might be trying to fill that hole, or to reduce its depth, or to make it feel less hollow. I think that making art could have helped from that moment on. — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

The thinking or figurate conception which has before it only a specific, determinate being must be referred back to the [ ... ] beginning of the science made by Parmenides who purified and elevated his own figurate conception, and so, too, that of posterity, to pure thought, to being as such and thereby created the element of the science. What is the first in the science had of necessity to show itself historically as the first. And we must regard the Eleatic One or being as the first step in the knowledge of thought. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things. — Ice-T

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. — Benjamin Franklin

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die. — Daniel Burnham

To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible! — Zoe Akins

At the bottom of the stairs, I caught sight of a tall Sentinel with brown hair pulled into a low ponytail. Solos. As far as I recalled, I hadn't threatened him with bodily harm - at least not to his face. — Jennifer L. Armentrout