"Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?"

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Alive Quotes

“You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.”
“I've learned enough things the hard way to know we humans can make a difference.”
“The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.”
“I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease ...”

Source : Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.56, University of Georgia Press
“Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.”
“We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...”
“The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.”

Source : Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.30, Penguin
“How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection.”

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