Laviola Kapszula Quotes & Sayings

There are obvious psychological stresses on a person in a group, but there may be even greater stresses on a person in isolation. Most higher primates, including humans, are intensely social, and there are few examples of individuals surviving outside of a group. A modern soldier returning from combat goes from the kind of close-knit situation that humans evolved for into a society where most people work outside the home, children are educated by strangers, families are isolated from wider communities, personal gain almost completely eclipses collective good, and people sleep alone or with a partner. Even if he or she is in a family, that is not the same as belonging to a large, self-sufficient group that shares and experiences almost everything collectively. Whatever the technological advances of modern society - and they're nearly miraculous - the individual lifestyles that those technologies spawn may be deeply brutalizing to the human spirit. — Jonathan Franzen

If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is. — Mac Anderson

But tough had its limits. Even a diamond, if you hit it at the exact right place, the spot where it was flawed and weak, would sometimes shatter. — Vi Keeland

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case. — Philip Kitcher

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. — Muhammad Ali

Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one. — Tom Vanderbilt

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be. — Jean Rostand

Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

That was the thing about Loki. You resented him even when you were at your most grateful, and you were grateful to him even when you hated him the most. — Neil Gaiman

Alois did not know (or care that much) whether men and women had souls, but he was in no doubt about dogs. They did, and you had to be loyal to the soul of a dog. — Norman Mailer

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses. — Hector Ruiz

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world. — Haruki Murakami

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk. — Benjamin Hooks

Go for the impossible. I always tried to find my own limits. So far I did not find them, so my universe is in constant expansion. — Paulo Coelho

I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality. — Katherine Webb