Liscia Flush Quotes & Sayings

the studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

So for me the essence of life is very simple. It is just this, awareness that allows us to trust in our own truths (without feeling any need to convince others), living gracefully amidst the chaos, maintaining a sense of balance (not being pulled around by the supposed opposites or false paradoxes), and being able to choose how we direct our lives. — Julia Woodman

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire. — Gautama Buddha

For who would live if life held no allurements? — Lewis Howard Latimer

Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them. — Tammy Faye Bakker

Her work was all she had or wanted. But there were times, like tonight, when she felt that sudden, peculiar emptiness, which was not emptiness, but silence, not despair, but immobility, as if nothing within her were destroyed, but everything stood still. — Ayn Rand

When man's freedom equals zero, he commits no crimes. That is clear. The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. And now, just as we have gotten rid of it (on the cosmic scale, centuries are, of course, no more than "just"), some wretched halfwits ... — Yevgeny Zamyatin