The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
Chuck PalahniukStichwörter: life living hell motivation life-lessons insight thought-provoking
He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.
Rosamunde PilcherStichwörter: insight
In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions."
[Why Societies Collapse, ABC Local, July 17, 2003]
Stichwörter: rich environment civilization foresight isolation actions insight consequences realization wealthy
Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
Orhan PamukStichwörter: art insight artist artists-life
The erruption of feelings
Allan LokosStichwörter: buddhism inspiration death-and-dying insight
There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only because our species is such an insignificant latecomer in a world not constructed for us. So much the better. The answers to moral dilemmas are not lying out there, waiting to be discovered. They reside, like the kingdom of God, within us -- the most difficult and inaccessible spot for any discovery or consensus.
Stephen Jay GouldThe truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.
Lisa KleypasStichwörter: insight
Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.
J.R. WardStichwörter: sadness shame insight
And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature.
Charlotte BrontëStichwörter: soul darkness secrets character intuition insight psyche abyss analysis psychological-insight
I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Elbert HubbardStichwörter: wisdom wealth wit appreciation insight
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