"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience the task of surviving prosperity."
- Alan Gregg
#adversity
"Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?"
- Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography
#freud #humor #psychology
"The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."
- Eric Hoffer
#history #historians
"The more we accept the imperfections of life, the more perfect life seems to become."
- Russell Kyle, Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life
#acceptance #life #perfection
"I put the word "diagnosis" in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a "diagnosis" led to a "cure," or in fact to any outcome other than a confirmed, and therefore an enforced, debility."
- Joan Didion, Blue Nights
#cure #diagnosis #health
"The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience."
- Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
#influence #outsiders
"You can't foster a relationship with someone who is always checking your performance to make sure it's adequate enough to merit his friendship."
- Jake Colsen, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey
#friendship #trust
"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."
- Mark Twain
#ability #achievement
"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
- Albert Camus
#fear
