Whatever - Not Caring Quotes

Watch me not care. 

Dilbert

Bees Working Hard

Bees make one-twelfth a teaspoon of 

honey in their lifetimes.

They can't see how their hard work adds to up to make a difference.

Self-Deceit Quotes

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Demosthenes

The great enemy of the truth is very oft not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy

Regret Quotes

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. Proverb

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.” Fulton Oursler

 “I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.” Rita Mero 

 “If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.” Mercedes Lackey

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” Sydney Smith 

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.” Soren Kierkegaard

 “I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.” Ingrid Bergman

And then... another view:

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Cleanliness Quotes

Cleanliness is next to godliness. Proverb

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.  P.J.O’Rourke

Splendor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, absence of malice, and absence of pride; these are the qualities of those endowed with divine virtues, O Arjuna.  Bhagavad Gita

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. Benjamin Disraeli

Pheromones

A pheromone is a chemical that triggers a natural behavioral response in another member of the same species.

Pheromones with human beings

It has long been recognized that female pherom ones can affect the menstrual cycles of other women.

George Preti

These findings are the first to document mood and neuroendocrine effects of male pheromones on females.

George Preti

Much to our surprise, the women reported feeling less tense and more relaxed during exposure to the male extract. This suggests that there may be much more going on in social settings like singles bars than meets the eye.

Wysocki

No peer reviewed data supporting the presences of...human...pheromones that cause rapid behavioral changes, such as attraction and/or copulation have been documented.

Preti & Weski (1999)

René Girard Quotes

Quotations from René Girard

Current thought is the castration of meaning.

Religion has a function that goes beyond faith and the veracity of the monotheistic gift: " The prohibition of human sacrifices. The modern world has decided that the prohibition is the nonsense".

In a certain sense, science has become a new mythology, man who creates life.

Mankind is the species that can always destroy itself. Fot this reason it created religion.

Postmodern philosophy is based on the assumption that history is finished.

Today Christianity is much more realistic than the optimism of science that creates man only to kill him.

The Art of Resting - Secret of Energy

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
Captain J. A. Hadfield

Fashion Quotes

Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp

Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value. If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.
Stephen Bayley

There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
Fred Allen

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw

A designer is only as good as thestar who wears her clothes.
Edith Head

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David

ThoreauI found out you can learn a lot about yourself as a person, too-while you're learning how to use fashion in your life.
Loretta Young

We will know twenty years from now what fashion is in Paris. Right now, there is general confusion.
Karl Lagerfeld

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde


What a deformed thief this fashion is.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Not giving in to commercial pressure (but not being profitable) :
I believe I have not given in to systems whatever they might be... A Lacroix style has been born and even if it doesn't appeal to everyone, so much the better. The barefooted, jewelry-less woman, skimpily dressed in worn-out logs, creates a ghost-like vision that only satisfies the most pessimistic, of which I am not one....
Lacroix

I don't do fashion, I am fashion.
Coco Chanel

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Yves Saint Laurent

Women and fashion:

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene Dietrich

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Elsa Schiaparelli

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey

Shyness Quotes

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
André Dubus

Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.
Lucille Ball


I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.
Clea Duvall

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
Penelope Keith

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
Charles Horton Cooley

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.
Jerome K. Jerome

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.
Susan Lucci

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.
Vernon Baker


The meek shall inherit the Earth.
Psalms 37:11


The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson

I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak.
Linda Evangelista

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.
Philip Zimbardo

Everyone is shy --- it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.
Kirkpatrick Sale


Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness.
Valery

The shell must break before the bird can fly.
Tennyson

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
Philip Zimbardo

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J. B. Priestley

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
Sir Henry Taylor

MidLife Crisis Quotes

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
George Orson Welles

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
Jules Renard

Mid life, a time to simplify your life and enjoy living!
Catherine Pulsifer

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of somene else.
Ogden Nash

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
Jane E. Brody

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'
Nicholas Murray Butler

Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams

There is a marked increase in the death rate between the ages of 35 to 40 for employed men, apparently as a result of this 'midlife crisis'.
Gail Sheehy

- The worst thing about a mid life crisis ?
- You are only half way through all the shit that life's gonna throw at you.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time catches up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.
Joseph Addison

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Daniel Defoe

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
C.S. Lewis

The Middle Way

"Monks, these two extremes ought not to be practiced by one who has gone forth from the household life. (What are the two?) There is addiction to indulgence of sense-pleasures, which is low, coarse, the way of ordinary people, unworthy, and unprofitable; and there is addiction to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable.
"Avoiding both these extremes, the Tathagata(the Perfect One) has realized the Middle Path; it gives vision, gives knowledge, and leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment and to Nibbana. And what is that Middle Path realized by the Tathagata...? It is the Noble Eightfold path, and nothing else, namely: right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration."
Buddha


Medio tutissimus ibis.
You will be safest in the middle.
Ovid

Stay away from the fire but do not avoid it altogether. Let it warm your body and cook your food, but not burn your hands.
A Sufi Saint

Virgil Quotes

Publius Vergilius Maro

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Grecians, even bearing gifts.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

A snake lurks in the grass.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

They can do all because they think they can.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Death's brother, Sleep.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Audentes fortuna iuvat Fortune favours the brave.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Trust one who has gone through it.

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. They can conquer who believe they can.

Saint Augustine Quotes (Augustine of Hippo)

Saint Augustine's Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy.

Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy.

Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.

Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.

Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.

Amen.

Saint Augustine Quotes

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

To sing once is to pray twice.

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

But it isn’t just a matter of faith, but of faith and works. Each is necessary. For the demons also believe –you heard the apostle- and tremble (Jas 2:19); but their believing doesn’t do them any good. Faith alone is not enough, unless works too are joined to it: Faith working through love (Gal 5:6), says the apostle.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Don’t hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but – what is worse – the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament t

o ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I’m telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God, and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

He that is jealous is not in love.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Hear the other side.

When asked what God was doing before the Creation, St. Augustine answered: 'Preparing Hell for people who ask questions like that'.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: 'Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.'

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

(Eulogy: a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently)

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

To seek the highest good is to live well.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless.

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

So give to the poor; I’m begging you, I’m warning you, I’m commanding you, I’m ordering you.