Voimakas Quotes & Sayings

I read once that despair... is when you are no longer able to sustain, even for the briefest moment, the notion that all will be well in the end. — Celeste Bradley

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance. — Cal Thomas

Because here's the thing that's wrong with all of the "How to Be Happy" shit that's been shared eight million times on Facebook in the past few years - here's what nobody realizes about all of this crap: The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience. This is a total mind-fuck. So I'll give you a minute to unpretzel your brain and maybe read that again: Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience. It's what the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as "the backwards law" - the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place. The — Mark Manson

I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Thank you God for helping me to overcome the bad to live the good. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Why is it so tough to forget pain and tougher to remember happiness.
We treasure our scars but forget to live on our smiles. — Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

He hadn't known many British, but some of them seemed crazy to him, and so it seemed a small thing to agree to - and Wally thought it was wise to agree with whoever it was who held the catheter. — John Irving

If you are late, you are wasting precious moments of another person's life. Moments they can never get back! — Rowan Coleman

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection. — Henri Poincare

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble. — Beth Henley

Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance. — Gayle Forman

You know what a cubicle basically says? It basically says, like, 'You know what? We don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody. — Bill Burr

'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step. — Nicolas Roeg

President Trumps election speaks volumes about the blatant failures of the Obama administration. — Steven Magee