Pavasario Balsai Quotes & Sayings

Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive. — Haruki Murakami

Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. — Benjamin Disraeli

The wall that separates insiders from outsiders is not born of human nature but methodically built, brick by brick, by tribal convention. The "wall" about which I will often speak in this book is not an organism or a membranous extension of some inborn aspect of "human nature". It is a mechanistic process-a barrier meticulously constructed by erratic community decrees as a means of identifying those who are part of the group and marking those who are not. It is not difficult to imagine the chauvinism that require a community to mark its territories and distinguish its members from its enemies. It is far more difficult to understand the kind of "outsiders" who are the subjects of this book-those who are part of the group and yet are rejected by their peers and cast into a terrible internal exile. It is an exile called "alienation". — Jamake Highwater

[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced. — Edmund Crispin

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again. — Friedrich Nietzsche

...you have torn my life all to pieces.. made me a victim, a caged bird! — Thomas Hardy

The inner climate stamps each individual with its character. Every life-form has its own individual anomaly point of health, which makes the orderly reproduction of the species possible. This also explains why the world of parasites increases with fever. — Viktor Schauberger

Lunar. Cyborg. Fugitive. Outlaw. Outcast. — Marissa Meyer

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief. — Vera Farmiga

I'm most biased about how white people have to learn to shut up when the conversation of racism comes up. White people have to learn to listen. Whether they agree with what they're hearing or not, they have to know to shut up and listen. — W. Kamau Bell

God likes to be played like a piano. — Pablo Medina

Every generation has found [the Bible's] message indispensable, and its influence on individuals and society over the centuries has been enormous. — Billy Graham

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world. — Joel Osteen