"Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing."

-- Chuck Barris

#Effort Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Rotten Quotes

“In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.”
“We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.”
“You are skilled. I exhort you.”
“Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.”
“Some people canâ€™t figure out what Iâ€™m doing. Itâ€™s not a walk-hop, itâ€™s not a trot, itâ€™s running, or as close as I can get to running, and itâ€™s harder than doing it on two legs. It makes me mad when people call this a walk. If I was walking it wouldnâ€™t be anything.”
“It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.”

Source : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1872). “The National Thanksgiving: Sermons Preached in Westminster Abbey: 1. Death and Life, December 10,1871; 2. The Trumpet of Patmos, December 17, 1871; 3. The Day of Thanksgiving, March 3, 1872”, p.15
“My will can control anything thatâ€™s empty.”
“Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 27, 2013

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