“When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.” IfsHumansLooksRealityEyeRememberHuman BeingsForgetHalfHappenedNormalBottomImaginaryAdmirableImaginary Life Book:Polgara the Sorceress Source: Polgara the Sorceress
“The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.” TryingMindHumansSelfHuman BeingsDangerInstinctBottomDeceptionSelf DeceptionDeclaring Author:Stefan Zweig
“Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.” KnowsHumansFriendshipHuman BeingsLimitsOceanBottomMysteriousRange Author:Zora Neale Hurston
“Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.” HumansDreamFightingHuman BeingsDemocracyBloodBottomFleshPatriotFlesh And Blood Author:Bill Moyers
“Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.” GivingHumansSpiritualityEnergyLinesJusticeHuman BeingsEmotionKindnessCreaturesAdultsBottomGenuineInteractionPhilanthropyInfantShiftingBottom LineOccasionalSentimentalityInterconnectednessGive And TakeMasochismGenuine Love Author:Jean Maalouf