Njonginjo Quotes & Sayings

The genius differs from us men in being able to endure isolation, his rank as a genius is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we men are constantly in need of "the others," the herd; we die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the herd, of the same opinion as the herd. — Soren Kierkegaard

L.P. So your work must fight religion?
J.H. No, not at all! It fights the unconsciousness, the blindness, that all myth creates about itself. You never can see the actual myth you are in or only through a glass darkly. — James Hillman

I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol. — Barack Obama

It was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be. — Jodi Picoult

The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud. — Steven Pinker

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is. — Alexis Bledel

I have others who rob me of my solitude, and yet do not truly offer me company. — Irvin D. Yalom

I have amethyst geodes by my meditation - yoga room and large rose quartz throughout my back garden. — Miranda Kerr

What one is ashamed to do one should be ashamed to say. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us. — Paul Dudley White

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor! — Gail Carson Levine

the look we give back to death when death looks at us. — Rick Yancey