Mesir Macunu Quotes & Sayings

The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why I can't believe in any orthodox religion: I cannot believe in my own soul. No, I am a chemical compound, conditioned by environment and education. My "character" is simply a repertoire of acquired tricks, my conversation a repertoire of adaptations and echoes, my "feelings" are dictated by purely physical, external stimuli. — Christopher Isherwood

Unlike some people who love to go out, I love to stay home. — Laurie Colwin

Don't use your past as an excuse, excuse your excuses and take action now!!! — Bernard Kelvin Clive

I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on. — Richard Armour

Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways ... One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will. — Swami Vivekananda

When you are comparing, you are really not looking at the sunset which is there, but you are looking at it in order to compare it with something else. So comparison prevents you from looking fully. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I was only going to say that abused people cling to their abusers, don't they? They've been brainwashed to believe there's no alternative. I was the bloody alternative, standing there, right in front of her! — Robert Galbraith

What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34) — Saint Augustine

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. — Samuel Johnson

The other problem is that she hasn't arrived."
"Oh, yeah? And who is she?"
"Well, she is a remarkable, funny, classy woman who can say the word fuck without being trashy. She makes me laugh, is ambitious, loves me because I'm nice, not in spite of it, and is as nice in return. She is simply enchanting."
"Shooting for the stars there, aren't you, pal?"
"Shouldn't we all?"
I didn't know anymore, although I utterly envied his romanticism. — Megan Karasch

Lee assess a subordinate commander as all lion; no fox. — Robert E.Lee

Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God. — Pope Paul VI

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jonathan Haidt said in another context, The emotional tail wags the rational dog. — Daniel Kahneman