Some people are just addicted to suffering. They think that it will somehow make them happy at the end when really what… — Aokigahara29 Copy Share Image
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity. — Sengcan Copy Share Image
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage… — Slavenka Drakulic Copy Share Image
“Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
“Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent;being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
