Vladislava 661 Quotes & Sayings

Oh Jesus. I'm already talking to myself. Or thinking to myself as if there are two of me. Is that the same thing? I'm not sure. But I do know I've been alone for two minutes and I'm already losing my shit. — Victoria Scott

Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing. — Osman Bakar

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. — Jonathan Haidt

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you. — George R R Martin

The knowledge that someone was trying his best to kill you was overwhelmingly oppressive, — Ken Follett

If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation. — Jaggi Vasudev

But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father. — Gore Vidal

If we win, I'm happy. The rest of it is just stuff. — Tim Duncan

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty. — James Burnham