Okechukwu Ibeanu Quotes & Sayings

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe? — Isaiah Thomas

Consciousness does not know its own character
unless in determining itself reflectively from the standpoint of another's point of view. It exists its character in pure distinction non-thematically and non-thetically in the proof which it effects of its own contingency and in the nihilation by which it recognizes and surpasses its facticity. This is why pure introspective self-description does not give us character. Proust's hero 'does not have' a directly apprehensible character; he is presented first as being conscious of himself as an ensemble of general reactions common to all men ... in which each man can recognise himself. This is because these reactions belong to the general 'nature' of the psychic. — Jean-Paul Sartre

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power. — Eric Schmidt

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process. — Don Farrell

I smiled, but my chest cratered, opening from the center out, sand pouring in from the edges, wider and wider as the evening wore on until I thought I'd fall into it. — C.D. Reiss

But even in hell there are moments when the light reaches you. — Richard C. Morais

Change and loss and sadness and grief are the shared lot of all human beings ... we are all making our way from one end of life to the other hoping
for whatever intervals of time we can manage it
to feel safe and content and strong and at ease. [p.40] — Sylvia Boorstein

When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease. — Deepak Chopra

All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead, — Jean Sibelius