Quotes Meme
This was harder than I thought it would be.
"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."
--Fritz Perls
"Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves."
Thomas S. Szasz
"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."
Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
"But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others."
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
"Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows."
Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."
--Fritz Perls
"Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves."
Thomas S. Szasz
"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."
Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
"But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others."
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
"Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows."
Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.