"To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate."

-- R. C. Sproul

#Party Quotes #Past Quotes #Talking Quotes

“We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers or classrooms, we will manage to learn. Educators can, however, make a difference in what people learn and how well they learn it. If we know why we are learning and if the reason fits our needs as we perceive them, we will learn quickly and deeply.”
“You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.”
“It's amused me the writers who have assumed that I was referring to a hateful quality of society in the '80s. I think that degree of hatefulness is pretty much steady throughout human history. To me, it's just an amusing sense of self-deprecation - my hateful years. It was entirely personal; it was my personal, hateful years, when I most overtly tried to lash out at society. As I used to say: it was an attempt to burn society down to the ground.”
“Thatâ€™s it,â€ she said, balling her hands in fists. â€œIâ€™m not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor.”
“Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!”
“Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation and the IRS, just as genuine freedom entailed the abolition, not the reform, of slavery.”
“The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.”

Source : Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, Routledge/Thoemms Press
“I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me”

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