Satisfactions 1983 Quotes & Sayings

Other voices, other rooms, voices lost and clouded, strummed his dreams. — Truman Capote

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The man who is wise, therefore, will see his life as more like a reservoir than a canal. The canal simultaneously pours out what it receives; the reservoir retains the water till it is filled, then discharges the overflow without loss to itself ... Today there are many in the Church who act like canals, the reservoirs are far too rare ... You too must learn to await this fullness before pouring out your gifts, do not try to be more generous than God. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator. — Douglas Wood

Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less along. — Margarita Engle

They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly. — Buck Brannaman

Man's feeling of homelessness, of alienation has been intensified in the midst of a bureaucratized, impersonal mass society. He has come to feel himself an outsider even within his own human society. He is trebly alienated: a stranger to God, to nature, and to the gigantic social apparatus that supplies his material wants.
But the worst and final form of alienation, toward which indeed the others tend, is man's alienation from his own self. In a society that requires of man only that he perform competently his own particular social function, man becomes identified with this function, and the rest of his being is allowed to subsist as best it can - usually to be dropped below the surface of consciousness and forgotten. — William Barrett

Damen's understanding of Laurent rearranged itself, in order that he might despise him more accurately. — C.S. Pacat

The bank of love is never bankrupt. — Steve Maraboli