Quotes of: Private-lives Keyword

We are only underlings of fate if we choose to let the wills of others shape our lives." -Thomas Richards

A Heart Revealed

The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Our lives will twist and twist, intermingling the old and the new until it doesn't matter which is which.

Inside Out & Back Again

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

I feel like I've lived numerous lives...and you can explore my incarnations through my works.

Interior Designs

Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.

I Live Here

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

The Infernals

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

We work all our lives to be who we become. And, it's who we become that determines what becomes of us.

The Jesus Horse