"Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time."

-- D. H. Lawrence

#Venus Quotes #Saturn Quotes

“Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.”
“If any man is not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not to be easy one moment until he is sure. Dear friend, without the fullest confidence as to your saved condition, you have no right to be at ease, and I pray you may never be so. This is a matter too important to be left undecided.”
“The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.”

Source : "Memoirs of Theophilus Parsons". Book by Theophilus Parsons, 1859.
“Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.”
“Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.”
“Like any good drug, anger can mask all reality. But anger is not an easy emotion to call up on demand, which is why an enemy is so wonderful. You're tired. Didn't sleep well. You have zero energy. Then you get lucky. You pull into the boathouse parking lot and see your favorite enemy. Celebrate. Your workout is saved. One look at that chowderhead can put you into the angerzone. As you turn off your car, you can feel your whole physical being change. Respiration increases. The dull look on your face is magically transformed into the power-stare of a true rowing warriot.”
“Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.”
“The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.109, iUniverse

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