Morphine Like Medication Quotes & Sayings

I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana — Jean Sasson

Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with things that touch men's passions very deeply, and because men are willing to pay, and pay highly, for wisdom and skill in the conduct of it. The real merits of the Norman lawyers were, not altruism, but ability, energy, and enthusiasm for their work. — Edward Jenks

Nor does it matter from the standpoint of a comparative study of symbolic forms whether Christ or the Buddha ever actually lived and performed the miracles associated with their teachings. The religious literatures of the world abound in counterparts of those two great lives. And what one may learn from them all, finally, is that the savior, the hero, the redeemed one, is the one who has learned to penetrate the protective wall of those fears within, which exclude the rest of us, generally, in our daylight and even our dreamnight thoughts, from all experience of our own and the world's divine ground. The mythologized biographies of such saviors communicate the messages of their world-transcending wisdom in world-transcending symbols - which, ironically, are then generally translated back into such verbalized thoughts as built the interior walls in the first place. — Joseph Campbell

Just as he still cared more for her than for any other creature, so did he more intensely and frequently hate her. — F Scott Fitzgerald

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow. — Samuel Johnson

But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea. — Richard P. Feynman

There's no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can't - and shouldn't - force yourself to want something 'normal' and stop wanting what you truly want. It's a sure way to make your life miserable. — Alessandra Hazard

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced. — Margaret Bourke-White

I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant. — Jake Gyllenhaal

The work is plentiful but the labours are few. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person. — Joseph Dougherty

As Schopenhauer noted a hundred and fifty years ago, 'It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents. — Andy Miller