“I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.” IfsYearsTodayJoyFivePureHusbandSingingHorseAbsolutesBotherParksFive YearsMy HusbandRidingLungsLarryJoy And HappinessFive Year OldsCentral ParkCarouselsVery Depressed Author:Eda LeShan
“Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.” KnowsFeelsPersonsHappensFeltQualityViolenceIntellectualAccountsHorseAbsolutesExtremesTemperInstructionCowardiceDisgustingTigersPreferenceWrathSanctions Author:Lionel Trilling
“I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.” MenMayDoeIndividualWishDealsIndustryGeniusComfortHorseAbsolutesIntelligentPatientConvincedObservationCertaintySteadyDespiseAbsolute Certainty Author:Walter Lippmann
“In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant to me making declarations of truth to them. A story can do that in kind of a Trojan-horse fashion.” PeopleKindStoriesCultureCan DoModernFashionHorseAbsolutesPostsDeclarationAbsolute TruthPlatitudesModern CultureTrojansTrojan Horse Author:Max Lucado
“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.” ShouldProblemAbleSchoolChoicesBeliefMy OwnSeeingNeededDecidedHorseAbsolutesMoodHandleBuyingGraduatesPsychiatristGraduate School Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.” MenValuesAnimalPositionJudgingFoolClothesHorseAbsolutesClothingsSaddles Author:Seneca the Younger