Die From Stagnation Quotes

#1. A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.

Debasish Mridha

#2. When a man drowns himself in work, it's because he's trying to escape from something. You ought to have a hobby.

Ayn Rand

#3. There's something about the texture of books that appeals to people. The shiny, glossy surfaces of the reading devices nowadays just don't evoke anything similar. Across

George Saoulidis

#4. It's important for all worship musicians to pour into young people.

Mike Murray

#5. I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

Devendra Banhart

#6. In pleasant peace and security
How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die
He shall look up above the stalled oxen
Envying the cruel falcon,
And dig under the straw for a stone
To bruise himself on.

Robinson Jeffers

#7. I believe that people of substantial wealth potentially create problems for future generations unless they themselves accept responsibility to use their wealth during their lifetime to help worthwhile causes.

Chuck Feeney

#8. We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

Sigmund Freud

#9. It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

Stephen King

#10. If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

Nayyirah Waheed

#11. There is no Great American Novel," she said absently. "This nation is too big and too diverse to produce only one great book. We've got lots of them and there will be more written in the future. Art doesn't stand still.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#12. I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.

Jhene Aiko

#13. me back and the bull that would take me forward. And so I walked on. It took all I had to cover nine miles a day. To cover nine miles a day was a physical achievement far beyond anything I'd ever done. Every part of my body hurt. Except my heart. I saw no one, but, strange as it was,

Cheryl Strayed

#14. To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.

Robert E. Ornstein

#15. What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

Leonard Sweet

#16. Like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.

Janet Fitch

#17. Grail Figure: Have you found the secret that I have lost?
Perceval: Yes. You and the land are one.

Excalibur