Thenie Per Mjedisin Quotes

#1. In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.

Edith Stein

#2. It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet

Dodie Smith

#3. Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

David Hume

#4. Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a way that one starts feeling the pain and pleasure of another person as if of one's own.

Awdhesh Singh

#5. There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one of anything is not even an option.

Abigail Thomas

#6. Streets paved with opal sadness,
Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy,
And jazz.

Bob Kaufman

#7. To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

Hans Jonas

#8. The greater the sense of powerlessness and the greater lack of authentic will, the more grows either submission or an obsessional desire for satisfaction of one's whims and the insistence on arbitrariness.

Erich Fromm