Kritikos Lagonikos Quotes

#1. Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?

Caroline Knapp

#2. History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

Jill Lepore

#3. There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is

Gretchen Rubin

#4. But as soon as he made her responsible for his happiness, she broke the star because she could not be responsible for his happiness. No

Miguel Ruiz

#5. A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

Seneca The Younger

#6. The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Karl Marx

#7. Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

Ahmet Ertegun

#8. Just take it slow and do not hurt your brain.

Zed Shaw

#9. It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.

John Battelle

#10. "I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being have influenced my work and made it what you see today. I am inspired by Black people and Mexican people, my two peoples. My art speaks for both my peoples" ~ Elizabeth Catlett

Melanie Anne Herzog

#11. The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet - to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind - with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.

Nhat Hanh

#12. Smile more to attract more.

Debasish Mridha

#13. If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

Henry Rollins

#14. You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven't before?

John L'Heureux