Quotes July 31, 2018

“That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.”
Robyn Schneider, ‘Extraordinary Means’
 
 
 
 
“The human brain is a cultural artifact. We don’t load culture into a virgin brain like software loading into a computer; rather, culture helps to wire the brain. Brains then become carriers of culture, helping to create and perpetuate it.”
Lisa Feldman Barrett
 
 
 
 
“Writing is frustration – it’s daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It’s just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.”
(The New York Times.)
 
 
 
 
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
writer
 
 
 
 
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.
Mitch Albom,
journalist and broadcaster
 
 
 
 
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine,
philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary
 
 
 
 
“I have a new sociological theory that accounts for most human behavior. It is this: people are idiots.”
Scott Adams
 
 
 
 
It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
John Stuart Mill,
philosopher and political economist