"The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome ..."

-- Goliarda Sapienza

#Swings Quotes #Tree Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.”
“The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.”

Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.421
“All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.”
“We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.”

Source : Katherine Catmull (2012). “Summer and Bird”, p.61, Penguin
“How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
“I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.”
“The last word always belongs to the audience... that blessed connection... that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on dark nights when the wind blows. On the other hand there is no way of ever knowing when one steps out into that circle, if the connection will be made. The promise is there, the hope is there, but no certainty whatsoever. Which is, I suppose, the attraction. That connection, when it happens, is magic. When it doesn't... Turn out the lights.”

Source : "Ruth Cracknell: a biased memoir".
“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”

Source : Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.503, Routledge

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