Posts Tagged ‘Quote’
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 135)
The things we admire in men, kindness, generosity, openness, honesty, and understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 135)
M. Scott Peck – The Road Less Traveled (page 131)
This idea just keeps coming up. First in Too Kill A Mocking Bird here.
Then the other day on a John Wayne poster:
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Then in The Road Less Traveled today:
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future.
M. Scott Peck — The Road Less Traveled (page 131)
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 132)
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism–either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 132)
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 18)
What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals?
John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (page 18)
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 244-245)
So little do we see before us in the world, and so much reason have we to depend cheerfully upon the great Maker of the world, that he does not leave his creatures so absolutely destitute, but that in the worst circumstances they have always something to be thankful for, and sometimes are nearer their deliverance than they imagine; nay, are even brought to their deliverance by the means by which they seem to be brought to their destruction.
Daniel Defoe — Robinson Crusoe (page 244-245)
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 156)
Thus fear of danger is the thousand times more terrifying than danger itself, when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burden of anxiety greater by much than the evil which we are anxious about.
Daniel Defoe — Robinson Crusoe (page 156)
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 176)
And it may not be amiss for all people who shall meet with my story to make this just observation from it—namely, how frequently in the course of our lives the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into it, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very mean or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 176)
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 66)
Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony, that there was scare any condition in the world so miserable, but there was something negative or something positive to thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world, that we may always find in it something comfort ourselves from, and to set in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe (page 66)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 778)
It is not enough to be happy, we must be satisfied with ourselves.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 778)
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 712)
The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it.
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables (page 712)
