Pramoedya Ananta Toer This Earth Of Mankind Quotes & Sayings

His life is like your life and my life and all the lives of all the people who are reading these words right now. It's a roiling stew of fear and need and desire and love and the hunger to be loved. And mostly, it's the latter. — Cheryl Strayed

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [ ... ] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's. — Blake Mycoskie

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled ... a lot. — Stone Gossard

To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being. — Steve Toltz

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically. — Raymond Pettibon

The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education. — Terence McKenna

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory. — John Lancaster Spalding

I will not let myself think that things are suddenly better. I will not let myself think that we've somehow escaped the us we always end up being. But at the same time, I will not deny what's happening. I will not deny this happiness. Because if happiness feels real, it almost doesn't matter if it's real or not. — David Levithan

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all. — Diane Lane

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Andrew looked as he always had, and Neil knew his face as well as he knew every iteration of his own. Despite that, something seemed different. — Nora Sakavic

Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession. — Janet Yellen

It's been a dream to play in the NFL and hopefully after next year that becomes a reality, but I wouldn't pass up being here with my teammates and coaches for anything. — Denard Robinson

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. — Napoleon Hill

Courage is not the absence of fear - it s inspiring others to move beyond it. — Nelson Mandela