"To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another."

-- Menander

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Helping Quotes

“The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited. The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm.”
“A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.”

Source : Journal of Comparative Neurology 493:147-153, p. 147, 2005.
“Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexualist roles onto the next generation. [They named] their offspring the non-gender-specific "Baby.”
“It's psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you're trying to depict. You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“No, you should stay right where you are, or my estranged brother and I will settle our difference by seeing who can break more of your bones." Tod glanced at him, brows raised. "You want to settle our differences?" Nash frowned. "No, I want to break every bone in his body, and I didn't think you'd let me do it alone." Tod nodded. "Good call.”
“Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?”
“We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.”
“Innocence has nothing to dread.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, Phèdre, III. 6, 1922.

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