"Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level."

-- Michael Helm

#Important Quotes #Levels Quotes #Certain Quotes

“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”
“The principle part of faith is patience.”
“I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.”
“Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.”
“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”
“Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.”
“There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.”
“Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.”

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