"A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

#Shadow Quotes #Debt Quotes #Fields Quotes

“The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“People who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change.”

Source : Peter Koestenbaum (1974). “Existential sexuality; choosing to love”
“Nothing is too small to matter.”
“Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life”
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all..”

Source : Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”
“Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.”
“There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.”

Source : "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXVIII, section 44,
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such”

Source : Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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