"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

-- Khalil Gibran

#Pain Quotes #Self Quotes #Sick Quotes

“I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.”
“This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one.”
“And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.”

Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.203, Transaction Publishers
“A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.”
“...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's spirits, for example, with a fun scene... Before writing a scene of pure despair, we must go through scenes of hope. And indeed, when I write, all of this amuses me very much.”
“When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.”
“Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.”
“To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.”

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