"By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings."

-- Louise J. Kaplan

#Passion Quotes #Self Quotes #Safety Quotes

“If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.”
“The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.”
“Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.”
“Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt
“But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
“If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.”
“To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.”
“People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.”

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