"On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself."

-- Georg Simmel

#Hands Quotes #Personality Quotes #Swim Quotes

“Each of us must do whatever we have a passion to do.”
“Itâ€™s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasnâ€™t got white wine in it. Has it?”
“A bus ride is like being in another world.”
“There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.”
“The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.”

Source : Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam
“We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2011). “The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life”, p.10, Yale University Press
“Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.”
“Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.”

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