Lou Salome Quotes

#1. I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people
either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.

Saul Bellow

#2. What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#3. Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

Edward Bond

#4. What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

Bertrand Russell

#5. It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself

Lou Andeas-Salome

#6. Believe me, the world won't give you any gifts. If you want to have a life, steal it.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#7. We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Myles Munroe

#8. If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#9. Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#10. God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience ... whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed ... It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.

George Hodges

#11. Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

Lou Andreas-Salome

#12. The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

Steven Pinker

#13. The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#14. Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Hugh Jackman

#15. The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#16. There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved only for gods, heroes, and saints. Story is one bridge between the human realm and the divine.

Deena Metzger

#17. Now I understand that this passion for pain, even in the torture of martyrdom, represents the haste and impatience to no longer be interrupted and disturbed by the evil that can come from this side (meaning this life).

Lou Andreas-Salome

#18. Living, if we go about it with selfishness and lack of awareness about our interdependence with the universal laws and other beings, turns into a nightmare of suffering with brief moments of happiness

Ivan Figueroa-Otero

#19. Making the decision to leave Valve strikes me as right up there with turning down the throne to Narnia, but then call me an idealist, and I guess I probably wouldn't want to spend my whole life making new hats for Team Fortress 2 either.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#20. It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.

Saint Ambrose