"Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying I dont love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because Im always struggling with it myself."

-- Sophie Okonedo

#Struggle Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.”

Source : Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.8, Beard Books
“Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.”
“Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.”
“As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight metaphysic and world view. Paranoia is an antireligious mysticism based on the feeling or perception that the world in general, and others in particular, are against me or us. Reality is perceived as hostile. By contrast, the religious mystic experiences the ground of being as basically friendly to the deepest needs of the self. That which is unknown, strange, or beyond our comprehension is with and for rather than against us.”
“The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.”
“Have you finished your column for tomorrow's headline?" It was Vee. She came up beside me, jotting notes on the notepad she carried everywhere. "I'm thinking of writing mine on the injustice of seating charts. I got paired with a girl who said she just finished lice treatment this morning.”
“If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbathâ€” our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.”

Source : Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.20, Bantam
“Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.”

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