Force Quote by Kathleen Norris Download Open image “Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.” — Kathleen Norris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Force Knows Life
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us. — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
“We try to discover in things, which become precious to us on that account, the reflection of what our soul has projected on to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When we limit our experience to what we perceive, we let our senses define our existence. Unless we are willing to step out of… — Vint Virga Copy Share Image
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual. — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot? — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.” — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . .… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
