"Next to the highest peak of happiness, thereâ€™s the deepest gap of pain."

-- Octavian Paler

#Pain Quotes #Next Quotes #Gaps Quotes

“The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.”
“I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure,”
“Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.”

Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 77, 1926.
“I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.”
“I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.”
“Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death”
“You know, women are burdened with all this other crap all the time, like looking good. You need to be really superhuman to be successful as a woman.”
“A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people”

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