Vanagloriarse Significado Quotes & Sayings

They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves. Not always, but at least occasionally, it can break our obsession with the self. — Kiran Nagarkar

And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they weren't meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, it's inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it. — J.A. Redmerski

Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe. — Franz Kafka

Religion consists very much in giving God that place in our view and feelings which he actually fills in the universe. — Edward Payson

We have to govern by treating every single citizen equally. — Martin McGuinness

Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street.

My people. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

The most dangerous weapon that can be used against us is that of playing with our minds. — Ava Brown

- to wit, 'the sweat of the brow. — Frederick Marryat

I want to share the places I love with you before I dont have you anymore — Lisa Desrochers