Seaverns Field Quotes & Sayings

Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite. — Max Scheler

Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy ... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu. — Lionel Shriver

If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature. — Mason Cooley

We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it. — Raheel Farooq

Nothing is higher than heaven; nothing is beyond the walls of the world; nothing is lower than hell, or more glorious than virtue.48 — John D. Barrow

When you've got a real boyfriend, everything stupid is okay, and everything scary feels safe. — Kate Le Vann

I choose what I believe, and say nothing. For I am not as simple as I may seem. — Catherine Of Aragon