To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Jane Goodall

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Stendhal

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Bill Gates

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Napoleon Hill

The various problems the addict describes may sound like too much for anyone to bear. On closer analysis, though, an addict's problems are not that different from the nonaddict's problems. But the addictive thinker's perception is that they are radically different: Other people get a break once in a while, but not me. Never.Recovering addicts may bring their unrealistic expectations into sobriety. They may believe that other people in recovery have had an easier time. My problems are the worst, they think. My spouse used to complain when I drank, and now I hear about my going to meetings every night. The supervisor watches me like a hawk. My oldfriends don't call anymore.... As recovering addicts come into regular contact with others in recovery, however, they begin to see that everyone else doesn't have it better and, in fact, other people are a lot like they are.Every aspect of recovery is subject to growth. Accepting life on its own terms, accepting powerlessness, surrendering to a Higher Power, taking and sharing a moral inventory, making amends

Abraham J. Twerski, Addictive Th

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Elbert Hubbard

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

Simone Weil

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

William Hazlitt

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

George Eliot

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Ron Wyden

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

A. J. Liebling