“I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?" . . . Whenever I am willing to ask "What is necessary next?" I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.” NextAsksLossAnswersTakenWillingMovedFinalsStuckQuestioningRight QuestionsWhy Me Book:The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
“Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.” MenMayHomeCultureLiteratureGivenHalfChristianityTakenOur LivesAtheismFinalsPositive AtheismSexualityNakedGrantedNecksDead ManFinal Words Author:Marilyn Manson
“Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body.” PersonsLongSelfFeelingsBodyEarthLostStruggleTakenSceneDespairLong TimeConsciousMurderSuicideFinalsPersistenceRealmsRepeatsPhysical BodyGhastlyEarth Life Author:Annie Besant
“If Kubrick had lived to see the opening of his final film, he obviously would have been disappointed by the hostile reactions. But I'm sure that in the end he would have taken it with a grain of salt and moved on. That's the lot of all true visionaries, who don't see the use of working in the same vein as everyone else. Artists like Kubrick have minds expansive and dynamic enough to picture the world in motion, to comprehend not just where its been, but where it's going.” IfsWorldMindHas BeensEndsEnoughUseFilmArtistTakenMovedFinalsReactionsOpeningDisappointedSaltGrainVeinsHostileVisionariesMoved OnGrain Of Salt Author:Martin Scorsese
“In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.” BelieveCoursesPleasurePrinciplesTakenEventsTheoryAssumingFinalsProductionsAnalysisOutcomesTensionAvoidanceHesitationPsycho Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.” PeopleWayMayLongHas BeensDoneFactsAmericaBlackRaceTakenWiseDogHigherLong TimeRedStrongerAgreeFinalsInstanceGradesAustraliaBlack PeopleWorldly Author:Winston Churchill