"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding."

-- Jean de la Bruyere

#Men Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.”
“Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.”

Source : Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books
“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.”
“Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.”
“It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“There are clearly people for whom Stoicism immediately "clicks," it comes natural, and others for whom it doesn't. Then again, Stoicism isn't the only positive philosophy of life. Buddhism is an excellent alternative, if it speaks more clearly to one's personality or cultural background.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.”

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