Sweeney Agonistes Quotes & Sayings

We all move on from history to chance, sorrow to sorrow, hope to hope, joy to joy.
Read the book of fiction on the theme. its title is FROM HISTORY TO CHANCE — Jamaluddin Jamali

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver. — Helen Garner

One thing about her," I said, "that often gets lost in all the scripts is that she can love unconditionally. She can love people that don't love her back."
"That's a superpower?" Andy said.
"No mortal can do it," I said. — Rebecca Lee

The genius of Peterson and Seligman's classification is to get the conversation going, to propose a specific list of strengths and virtues, and then let the scientific and therapeutic communities work out the details. Just as the DSM is thoroughly revised every ten or fifteen years, the classification of strengths and virtues (known among positive psychologists as the "un-DSM") is sure to be revised and improved in a few years. In daring to be specific, in daring to be wrong, Peterson and Seligman have demonstrated ingenuity, leadership, and hope. — Jonathan Haidt

When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them. — Geddy Lee

These people don't see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you. — George Orwell

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. — Henry David Thoreau

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it. — Heather O'Neill

[ ... ] and in addition to the feeling of being full there was another more terrifying one, as if a hundred appetites were raging out of control within her. She couldn't explain it, but she felt as if everything was in chaos and something awful was going to happen. She had eaten and now something terrible would occur. — Steven Levenkron

What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie?
Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life. — Veronica Roth

Get love, become love, and share love, or die trying. — Nityananda Das

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess. — Demi Lovato