#thing

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #thing




They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)


Plato


#humanity #humor #life #politics #society

People change. I mean you barely know who you are when you enter, and you spend that time figuring out what you want from life, and who you want in it. The next thing you know, the people you always thought would be there, aren't. A nd the person you thought you could trust with everything, isn't the person you ever knew at all.


Rebecca Donovan


#life #love #quote #rebecca-donovan #change

Clothing was magic. Casey believed this. She would never admit this to her classmates in any of her women's studies courses, but she felt that an article of clothing could change a person... Each skirt, blouse, necklace, or humble shoe said something - certain pieces screamed, and others whispered seductively, but no matter, she experienced each item's expression keenly, and she loved this world. every article suggested an image, a life, a kind of woman, and Casey felt drawn to them." (Free Food For Millionaires, p.41).


Min Jin Lee


#women #change

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.


Bill Hicks


#death #everything #free #life #pay

Live or die, but don't poison everything.


Anne Sexton


#everything #live #poison

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.


Samuel Beckett


#been #born #business #dying #found

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.


Gore Vidal


#death #nothingness #death

Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands.


T.F. Hodge


#breathing #conscious #deep #divide #division

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?


Jonathan Safran Foer


#dreams

I chose the specialty of surgery because of Matron, that steady presence during my boyhood and adolescence. 'What is the hardest thing you can possibly do?' she said when I went to her for advice on the darkest day of the first half of my life. I squirmed. How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency. 'Why must I do what is hardest?' 'Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'? 'But, Matron, I can't dream of playing Bach...I couldn't read music. 'No, Marion,' she said her gaze soft...'No, not Bach's 'Gloria'. Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.


Abraham Verghese


#dreams