Congeners Content Quotes

#1. As I write this now, I realize that even on that first day I had slipped through a hole in the earth, that I was falling into a place where I had never been before.

Paul Auster

#2. If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

Amos Oz

#3. A grasp of the psychological mechanism behind taste will not necessarily change our sense of what we find beautiful, but it can prevent us from reacting to what we don't like with simple disparagement

Alain De Botton

#4. If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. [Donald Trump] doesn't have the money to run commercials and I launched into a tirade on money in politics.

Rush Limbaugh

#6. I have always believed that cowards never make history, history is created by people with courage and wisdom. Courage is individual, wisdom comes with experience.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#7. More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

David Frum

#8. I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

Jamie Chung

#9. Infinite potential exists for what actions can be taken.

Steven Redhead

#10. Multitasking makes you stupid - dumber than getting stoned.

Brigid Schulte

#11. If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness.

Karen Salmansohn

#12. If you align your vibrations and frequencies with those things you desire, you will acquire them.

Stephen Richards

#13. When Thomas Edison's factory burned to the ground in 1914, destroying one-of-a-kind prototypes and causing $23 million in damage, Edison's response was simple:
"Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start fresh again.

Thomas Edison

#14. Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

Pema Chodron