"To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself."

-- Seneca the Elder

#Mean Quotes #Safety Quotes #Doe Quotes

“When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when two men suddenly see a child about to fall into a well, they all have a feeling of alarm and distress, not to gain friendship with the child's parents, nor to seek the praise of their neighbors and friends. From such a case, we see that a man without the feeling of commiseration is not a man. The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity.”
“Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.”

Source : "The Black Prism". Book by Brent Weeks, August 25, 2010.
“Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.”
“Sixty slutz all of them dying from asphyxia/after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippie cup”
“A good song is a good song whatever your age.”
“You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.”
“There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living.”
“Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.”

Source : Interview with Liane Balaban, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2013.

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