"Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy."

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Source : Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.77, Vintage

Susanna Kaysen

#Opposites Quotes #Looks Quotes #Velocity Quotes

“Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win.”
“I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.”
“When we direct our thoughts properly i.e. 'Things could be worse but aren't', we can control our emotions... i.e. and feel relieved, grateful, satisfied, hopeful and happy”
“He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.”

Source : " My granny could have coached Brazil, says Lineker" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2006.
“Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.”

Source : Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”
“Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.”
“When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.”
“I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.”

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