People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.
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People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.
The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in detail, you realize that it's much more complex than you thought.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.
Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.
I thought talking to human beings was just something that could make things complicated and unpleasant. So I didn't talk much. I just watched people.
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
If you put nothing away for retirement, I can tell you, to the last penny, how much you will have when you retire: nothing.
The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.
If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.
Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.
In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.
If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little.
You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.
Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.
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