Tepsis Quotes & Sayings

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for. — Mitch Albom

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me. — Daniel Kahneman

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome. — Donald Glover

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable. — Nikolai Gogol

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this. — Helen Wills Moody

When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw India's past as part of an antiquity rendered irrelevant by modernity, which with its science, nation states, free enterprises, and consumer societies was supposed to have solved all problems. — Pankaj Mishra

I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows to make and unmake, produce and consume - a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment. The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies. — Ivan Illich

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags. — W.S. Merwin

The next time you get nervous about others opinions, look them mentally in the eye and say, "What you think of me is none of my business." — Terry Cole-Whittaker

I know I hated magic for a reason," Janco said. "Congratulations. This is the first time you've had a VALID reason to hate something," Ari countered. "Remember your campaign against sand?"
"Sand! Horrid little stuff. Gets everywhere. I had a perfectly good argue
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"Janco." Ari's voice rumbled deep in his throat.
In a heartbeat, Janco switched gears. "Well, this blood magic sounds worse than sand. — Maria V. Snyder

Whilst thus the poet animates nature with his own thoughts, he differs from the philosopher only herein, that the one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other Truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She was half watching, half musing. It was her constant state. Her eyes were keen and observant, but her inner mind took no notice of what she saw. — D.H. Lawrence

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact. — Stewart O'Nan