Tu Maza Sangati Quotes & Sayings

In man a working level of narcissism is inseparable from self-esteem, from a basic sense of self-worth. We have learned, mostly from Alfred Adler, that what man needs most is to feel secure in his self-esteem. But man is not just a blind glob of idling protoplasm, but a creature with a name who lives in a world of symbols, on an abstract idea of his own worth, an idea composed of sounds, words, and images, in the air, in the mind, on paper. And this means that man's natural yearning for organismic activity, the pleasures of incorporation and expansion, can be fed limitlessly in the domain of symbols and so into immortality. The single organism can expand into dimensions of worlds and times without moving a physical limb; it can take eternity into itself even as it gaspingly dies. — Ernest Becker

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world. — Rollo May

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. — Tom Stoppard

We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration — Kevin O'Leary

For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but authoritarian South Vietnamese government, to fight nationalists and communists in Vietnam. More than 23,000 U.S. military advisers were there by the end of 1964, occasionally engaging in combat. On the other side of the world, the American public knew and cared little about the guerrilla war. In fact, few knew exactly where Vietnam was. Nevertheless, people were willing to go along when their leaders told them that action was essential to resist communist aggression. — Edward S. Greenberg

If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person. — Mary Callahan Erdoes

And in the deepest recesses of his being, Dorrigo Evans understood that all his life had been a journeying to this point when he had for a moment flown into the sun and would now be journeying away from it forever after. — Richard Flanagan

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. — Cecil Beaton

O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke. — Dana Gould

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality. — Blanche Lincoln

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones. — Roberto Bolano

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream. — Alice Hoffman