"The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses."

-- Maren Elwood

#Roots Quotes #Old Habits Quotes #Differences Quotes

“In a time of destruction, create something.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2003). “The Fifth Book of Peace”, Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
“Capital will always go where itâ€™s welcome and stay where itâ€™s well treated. Capital is not just money. Itâ€™s also talent and ideas. They, too, will go where theyâ€™re welcome and stay where they are well treated.”
“A charming woman is a busy woman.”
“prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.”

Source : Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.59
“Wrecked on the lee shore of age.”
“The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.”
“Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.”

Source : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
“There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.”

Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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