“We humans are strange creatures—we cry for those who don‘t respect us and forget those who treat us like royalty”
Source: Sukoon
“Erginlenmenin bu evresindeki kadın, psişesinin, onu kendisinden istenilen her şeye boyun eğmeye zorlayan küçük taleplerinden tedirgin olur. Uyum göstermek, tüm kadınlar tarafından akılda tutulması gereken sarsıcı bir kavrayışa yol açar. O da şudur: Kendimiz olmamız, diğer pek çok kişi tarafından dışlanmamıza neden olur, buna karşılık başkalarının istediklerine boyun eğmemiz de kendi kendimizden sürgün edilmemize yol açar. Bu, azap verici bir gerilimdir ve katlanmak gerekir, ama bizi bekleyen seçim çok açıktır.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“For the whole Past, as I keep repeating, is the possession of the Present; the Past had always something true, and is a precious possession. In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common Human Nature that has been developing itself.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
“We constantly struggle with right and wrong. We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to be. We have a lot of practice wrestling with ourselves. As a result, compared to magical creatures, we humans are much more able to suppress our natural inclinations in order to deliberately choose our identities.”
Source: Fablehaven No. 2: Grip of the Shadow Plague; Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
“Most people hate psychological conflict. For this reason they avoid doing any serious thinking about difficult social issues, and they like to have such issues presented to them in simple, black-and-white terms: this is all good and that is all bad.”
Source: Industrial Society and Its Future
“If you seek to understand a man, start by exploring his bond with his mother.”
“Priority makes the person, intention makes individual.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Humans operate on millennia-old hardware. We can comprehend linear relationships, but have trouble processing accelerating rates of change.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“It would hardly be early in November, there were generally delays, a bad passage or something; that favouring something which everybody who shuts their eyes while they look, or their understandings while they reason, feel the comfort of.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“Some people worship Christ as god,
some Allah, Jehovah or Krishna,
some obsess over comicbook figures,
others submit to alcohol or dollar.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop