Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul; we shall then know that in the living thinking which is liberated from the will, a life-germ has been discerned which passes through the gate of death, goes through the spiritual world after death, and afterwards returns again to earthly life.
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes – but is that all?
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.