Irenisme Quotes & Sayings

Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital. — Steven Magee

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Surely I could give him
a sort of contentment ...
That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver. — Dodie Smith

Scientific knowledge has taught [humans] much since the days of the Deluge, and it will increase their power still further. And, as for the great necessities of Fate, against which there is no help, they will learn to endure them with resignation. Of what use to them is the mirage of wide acres in the moon, whose harvest no one has ever yet seen? As honest smallholders on this earth they will know how to cultivate their plot in such a way that it supports them. By withdrawing their expectations from the other world and concentrating all their liberated energies into their life on earth, they will probably succeed in achieving a state of things in which life will become tolerable for everyone and civilization no longer oppressive to anyone. Then, with one of our fellow-unbelievers, they will be able to say without regret: 'We leave Heaven to the angels and the sparrows. — Sigmund Freud

I ceased even to breathe. It was ridiculous, of course, but you know that ghost-story feeling. — H.G.Wells

they favor new information over old, even if the older information is more valuable. — Gary Keller

My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me. — Mason Cooley

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing. — Charles Spurgeon

I had to get a second passport in a hurry. — Andrew Young