Legal Advisor Quotes & Sayings

Laughter has the remarkable power of making an object come up close, of drawing it into a zone of crude contact where one can finger it familiarly on all sides, turn it upside down, inside out, peer at it from above and below, break open its external shell, look into its center, doubt it, take it apart, dismember it, lay it bare and expose it, examine it freely and experiment with it. Laughter demolishes fear and piety before an object, before a world, making of it an object of familiar contact and thus clearing the ground for an absolutely free investigation of it. Laughter is a vital factor in laying down that prerequisite for fearlessness without which it would be impossible to approach the world realistically. — Mikhail Bakhtin

The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes. — Bauvard

Focus on joy, not on hurt or fear.
The earth will dance, peace to share. — Debasish Mridha

Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray. — Ibn Ata Allah

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way. — Francis Chan

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable. — Zadie Smith

The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves. — Chuck Palahniuk