Everything Else Quotes (page 13)

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• enemy
• science
• different

This is the key to understanding the difference between indigenous and civilized warfare: Even in warfare the indigenous maintain relationships with their honored enemy. This is the key to understanding the difference between indigenous and civilized ways of living. This is only one of many things those we enslave could tell us, if only we asked: They, too, are alive, and present another way of living, a way of living that is not - in contradistinction to our God and our Science and our... Derrick Jensen

• sharing
• personal
• positive

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared... Margaret Atwood

• feeling
• mind
• mindfulness

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. Vladimir Nabokov

• energy
• luxury
• money

in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no... Erich Fromm

• real
• look
• lion

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him. C. S. Lewis

• mind
• mindfulness
• presence

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• him
• she
• things

She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all. Edith Wharton

• work
• pain
• wellness

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work? and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow. Allen Ginsberg

• learning
• creator
• empty

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. Charles Spurgeon

• him
• dead
• die

Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. C. S. Lewis

• parents
• adulting
• powerful

If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex that adolescents first rebel. And if you never have sex, you never grow beyond everything else your parents taught you. If you never break the rule against sex, you won't break any other rule. Chuck Palahniuk

• real
• great
• greatness

But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else. Leo Tolstoy

• funny
• death
• perspective

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. James Patterson

• likely
• else
• nothing

But the pill did nothing, probably expired like everything else on the premises. Barbara Kingsolver

• love wife
• life
• little

He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for Lalitha, amounted to little more than flight from circumstance. He and Patty couldn't live together and couldn't imagine living apart. Each time he thought they'd reached the unbearable breaking point, it turned out that there was still further they could go without breaking. Jonathan Franzen