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“Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love....”
Source : Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.
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“You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.”
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“Habit is the daily battleground of character”
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“Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately.”
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“I am who I am who I am who am I Requesting some enlightenment Could I have been anyone other than me?”
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“I have to make decisions that people are a little confused about, in a way, and I just express the appreciation, admiration and respect I have. I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.”
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“I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.”
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“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.”
Source : Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
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“Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living. I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair, especially when they fight, and when they sing.”
Source : Dorianne Laux (2000). “Smoke: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.
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“I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.”
