Laxities Quotes & Sayings

One does not escape that easily from the seduction of an effete way of life. You cannot arbitrarily say to yourself, I will now continue my life as it was before this thing, Success, happened to me. But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once you know this is true, that the heart of man, his body and his brain, are forged in a white-hot furnace for the purpose of conflict (the struggle of creation) and that with the conflict removed, man is a sword cutting daisies, that not privation but luxury is the wolf at the door and that the fangs of this wolf are all little vanities and conceits and laxities that Success is heir to - why, then with this knowledge you are at least in a position to know where danger lies. — Tennessee Williams

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them all. She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show? Eat a meal, go to bed, fall in love with me and I promise you years and years of top notch material like this? — David Nicholls

Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of modesty is want of sense. — Benjamin Franklin

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered. — Augustus William Hare

I have never seen a more desperate symbol of hope since the world ended and I've never felt the world more desperate to make a mockery of it. — Courtney Summers

I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude. — Gary Dourdan

I got to seek a great perhaps. — John Green

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. — Honore De Balzac

Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want."
"What do we want?" I asked blurrily.
"Aw, man, you know," he said. "We just want, well, the same things these people wanted."
"What was that?"
He shrugged. "To live, I guess," he said. — Michael Cunningham

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. — Douglas Adams

Life is always changing.
Let your experience be your guide. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sanctification makes us pure in heart. — William J. Seymour

But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once you know this is true, that the heart of man, his body and his brain, are forged in a white-hot furnace for the purpose of conflict (the struggle of creation) and that with the conflict removed, the man is a sword cutting daisies, that not privation but luxury is the wolf at the door and that the fangs of this wolf are all the little vanities and laxities that Success is heir to
why, then with this knowledge you are at least in a position of knowing where the danger lies. — Tennessee Williams

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. — U.G. Krishnamurti

Damn," Kenji says after a moment. "Damn damn damn. This shit is bananas — Tahereh Mafi