"What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect."

-- Samuel Johnson

#Revenge Quotes #Resentment Quotes #Insult Quotes

“Usually I will hear a sample, think of a theme and then it will take me a couple of days to write down some lyrics. Then I will decide that I hate those lyrics and rewrite. Then I will change all the music around. Then I will rewrite all the lyrics again. I am a bit of a perfectionist although you would never know it because all my songs are like chopped up and @#$%& up, but you see that's on purpose.”
“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
“Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.”
“To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd
“In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.”

Source : Peter L. Berger (1969). “The sacred canopy: elements of a sociological theory of religion”
“A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
“Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process, and therefore does not lead to knowledge. Both are wrong for the same reasons. They ignore the generation of diversity and new ideas upon which natural selection and skepticism acts. Weeding out the unfit is critical to both - natural selection allows evolution to proceed, and skepticism allows science to advance.”
“"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."”

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