“I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.” ThinkingIdeasSoulPainSufferingTurnsPassionAwarenessCapacityRelationMy SoulNo IdeaMutualFacultySensationsMy ThoughtsMy PassionSensory Author:Nicolas Malebranche
“Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.” KnowsWantMayMatterPainLyingPrayerSinDestinyOvercomingRelationLoved Ones Author:Georgia Harkness
“We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.” WayPainPleasureActingQualityMoralVirtueOppositesRelationAssumingVicesBest WayPain And PleasureMoral VirtuesNicomachean Ethics Book:The Nicomachean ethics Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.” IfsWayTryingStatesReasonPainHateCausesSecretForeverLoversTruth IsRelationBelovedCrave Author:Carson McCullers
“... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.” IfsHumansAblePainCertainFoundProcessBornLinesHuman BeingsFailingEternalRelationMathematicsSymbolsAngleManipulateGeometryHuman Relations Author:Louise Bourgeois
“I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about this word aware, which on the page looks like "aware," which speaks to both the pain and the beauty of our lives. Being there, what I perceived was that this is a sorrow that is not a grief that one forgets or recovers from, but it is a burning, searing illumination of love for the delicacy and strength of our relations.” LooksPainSpeakForgetGriefTalkingOur LivesSorrowPagesRelationBurningFascinatingParadoxIlluminationBeing ThereAccommodateDelicacyHiroshima Author:Terry Tempest Williams