"Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a place where we're still close enough to comfort to understand our unhappiness. Most of the things we desire are things that can destroy us."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Laurel Nakadate

#Desire Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Moments Quotes

“When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.”

Source : "Wisdom from Gift from the Sea".
“The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are the same. Through slightly different interpretations, they all think the same thing is going to happen, that the Earth is going to be perfected and that humans are going to do the work of perfecting it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I do believe in angels and I believe that a lot of these people I'm supposed to meet. The photograph serves as evidence; it causes me to reflect on when I met this person.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's a very important process of self-recognition, self-introspection, by just daily accepting our creation, accepting what is right in front of us, breathing, letting go, and coming into the heart space and knowing that that fear or the struggle is part of the illusion. Just breathe that truth, because as you breathe, it filters through and you'll find that that tightness, that intensity, the fear, the worry, will dissolve. Just allow yourself not to get stuck in that.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“One family--we dwell in Him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death.”
“Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on whatâ€™s right and wrong that itâ€™s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. Itâ€™s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldnâ€™t like pink because thatâ€™s for girls, or youâ€™d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyoneâ€™s born confident, and everythingâ€™s taken away from you”
“I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.”
“Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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