Nenuphar Flower Quotes & Sayings

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. — Emma Goldman

The necropolis has never seemed a city of death to me; I know its purple roses (which other people think so hideous) shelter hundreds of small animals and birds. The executions I have seen performed and have performed myself so often are no more than a trade, a butchery of human beings who are for the most part less innocent and less valuable than cattle. When I think of my own death, or the death of someone who has been kind to me, or even of the death of the sun, the image that comes to my mind is that of the nenuphar, with its glossy, pale leaves and azure flower. Under flower and leaves are black roots as fine and strong as hair, reaching down into the dark waters. — Gene Wolfe

You can't give more or take more than the exact worth! If you give more than you need to ... you'll be hurt! In your body in the material world ... in your luck in the world of the stars ... and in your soul in the heavenly world! — CLAMP

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds. — Alice Walker

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power — Noam Chomsky

The best way to move a mountain is one stone at a time. Nothing is insurmountable if you take one step before you take the next. — Debbie Shapiro

One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

If you fix a bug, sometimes there's no guarantee won't bring up another bug — CG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson. — Conan O'Brien

The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it. — Benjamin Haydon

Advice for a human
86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love. — Matt Haig

I'm praying for healing for our nation. For retaliation that yields constructive results. Peaceful protests. We need each other. — Tituss Burgess

If you're a white person in the wrong neighborhood, you're an underdog. — Robin Thede

We have become victims of our own art. We touch people on the outsides of their bodies, and they us, but we cannot get to their insides and cannot reveal our insides to them. This is one of the great tragedies of our interiority-it is utterly personal and unrevealable. Often we want to say something unusually intimate to a spouse, a parent, a friend, communicate something of how we are really feeling about a sunset, who we really feel we are-only to fall strangely and miserably flat. Once in a great while we succeed, sometimes more with one person, less or never with others. But the occasional break-through only proves the rule. You reach out with a disclosure, fail, and fall back bitterly into yourself. — Ernest Becker