Condition Quotes

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The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see… — C.S. Lewis
We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we… — Alice Walker
I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that… — W G Sebald
A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative… — Orison Swett Marden
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased… — Frederick Douglass
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting… — Wallace Stegner
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what… — Albert Camus
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand. — Frantz Fanon
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with… — Maya Angelou
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it… — Suzanne Collins
Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect.… — Jamie Ford
If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a… — Thomas Pynchon
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. — Frank Herbert
A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am… — Martha Gellhorn
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for… — Anne Lamott
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself. — Sigmund Freud
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There… — John Berryman
Juliana?â€ the words were low and farâ€”too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that… — Sarah MacLean
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of… — Eckhart Tolle

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