Quotes
Authors
Derek R. Audette

"It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of human experience, then what we seem to intuitively know to be true is entirely backwards. For if this is the case, then it must be the despicable tyrant, free of any moral values, and not the selfless compassionate who sacrifices himself for the good of mankind that is truly the one most deserving of our reverence and emulation."

-- Derek R. Audette

#Life Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Tyrants Quotes

“The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.”
“I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions”

Source : Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.
“Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.”
“Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.”

Source : 'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'
“The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53”
“There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.”
“All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills”
“Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory of such moments is my most precious possession. Maybe because there've been so few of them. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-- even if you put them end to end they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds snatched from eternity.”

Source : Robert Doisneau (1980). “Photographs”

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