Healing Quote by W. H. Auden Download Open image “As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.” — W. H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Healing Inspirational Pleasure Unjust
I decided not to give the haters the satisfaction that they got me so bad I gave up. — Rebecca Black Copy Share Image
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
“Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets… — W. H. Auden Copy Share
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
We're on the road 300 days a year. There's no recovery time. It's a test of your physical and mental endurance. — Beth Phoenix Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“SILENT LIKE SLEEP You appear by my side, silent like sleep. Soft hair, a little wild. No fear, gentle like a calm river. I turn and catch your gaze, before you have time to look away. Your eyes are searching inside mine. Perhaps, they ARE mine. More than nakedness, for there is no cover to take. The fire in your… — Donna Goddard Copy Share
It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Good morning,” one of the soldiers said. “I’m Captain Joseph Walker and this is Sergeant James Vanetten. We are members of the One-Hundred-and-First Airborne Division, Fort Campbell.” Wanda nodded “May we know your name?” “Wanda May Divine.” “Are David and Thomas the first and middle names of your husband?” “Yes.” “Is he currently deployed in Afghanistan?” — Shafter Bailey Copy Share
“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
“The sole reason I stand to open it up now is that lots of people who are in pain just like I was, and… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It… — Eric Clapton Copy Share