“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.” WritingHumansLittlesAgeLastsYoungSpiritHuman BeingsPleasureMiddleYouthAdventurePureQuietAnxietyDialogueOld AgeDrunkEnjoyedDescriptionJoyfulMiddle AgesTurmoilPuritanAnnoyancePleasures Of LifeLimboYoung FriendsWriting Dialogue Author:George Santayana
“Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.” HumansI CanTwoSeemsHuman BeingsQuietDividedExhaustedDesperationRestlessAgitationResignedQuiet Desperation Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
“I dont think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess Im quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. Im certainly not the quiet reflective type.” PeopleThinkingHumansBigsHuman BeingsTypeQuietPicksCastsExtremesLoud Author:Ben Daniels
“My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.” MindHumansHeartI CanSufferingHuman BeingsMy HeartQuietSkills Author:Ram Dass
“Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it.” NeedsWritingTryingHumansHardDoneStoriesSpeakHuman BeingsSilenceQuietFlowMortalityShort StoryStory Writers Book:Broken Vessels: Essays Source: Broken Vessels: Essays