Perierga Quotes & Sayings

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick — John Arlott

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. — Jonathan Haidt

I love a red lip - red is one of my favorite colors, and I really don't wear many other lipstick colors than red. — Kendall Jenner

Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, written — Jared Diamond

This is the mystery. When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others. Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you. To — Shunryu Suzuki

It was a little insulting to admit that a drooling dolt like Coulter might be right about something, but after all, Isaac Newton didn't reject gravity just because the apple had a low IQ. — Jeff Lindsay

Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout. — Rick Majerus

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind. — Emily Dickinson

I see you all know who I am," Hercules said. "Not that I'd expect anything else. After all, I am the Hercules."
My brow rose.
Seth snorted.
"Hercules is a dick." Apollo stated. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts. — John Ortberg