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“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
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“Only the winners decide what were war crimes.”
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“The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.”
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“Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past†has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.”
Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press
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“You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.”
Source : Genevieve Valentine (2015). “The Girls at the Kingfisher Club: A Novel”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
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“More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.”
Source : Beth Revis (2011). “Across the Universe”, p.55, Penguin
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“Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.”
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“A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.”
