"You cannot be naÃ¯ve about evil. You cannot be naÃ¯ve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them."

-- Richard Rohr

#Mean Quotes #Dark Quotes #Reality Quotes

“We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.”
“By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.”

Source : Kyriacos C. Markides (2002). “The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality”, p.222, Image
“A relationship means you come together to make each other better. Itâ€™s not all about you, and itâ€™s not all about them. Its all about the relationship. Support them in their dreams/vision just as much as you would expect them to support you. Make each other better. Challenge each other to go beyond average. Pull out the greatness from within each other. Make sure they can find their biggest fan in you, and you can find yours in them.”

Source : FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Aug 08, 2013
“If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.”
“Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned to write good songs by writing a lot of not so good ones. Education matters in songwriting, just as it matters for physicists, chemists, doctors, lawyers and MBAs. Education lays the foundataion on which to build experience.”
“A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.”

Source : Samuel McChord Crothers (1920). “The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers”
“I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.”
“I learned to ask myself questions like: Why is something made the way it is? Why does a motorcar look like it does? Is it right or wrong? What is an airplane? Why is it shaped like that? Then, later, I became a diver and studied subaquatic life and the streamlining of sharks and manta rays. Any fish is superior to the shapes we humans have invented - and unchanged for 250 million years, imagine!”

You may also like: