Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.
– Rachel Naomi Remen, http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/491458-healing-may-not-be-so-much-about-getting-better-as
Discipline, like the bridle in the hand of a good rider, should exercise its influence without appearing to do so, should be ever active, both as a support and as a restraint, yet seem to lie easily in hand. It must always be ready to check or pull up, as occasion may require; and only when the horse is a runaway should the action of the curb be perceptible.
— Julius. C. Hare, http://www.bartleby.com/161/629.html
Do not get angry when your horse does not respond to a whisper if you have trained him with screams and shouts.
– Author Unknown
* Although this exact quotation cannot be found using Google, the concept is explained on numerous dog and horse training sites.
Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has uttered that exact phrase every single day since 1993. However, it certainly appears that the main thing the Internet has accomplished is the normalization of amateur pornography. There is no justification for the amount of naked people on the World Wide Web, many of whom are clearly (clearly!) doing so for non-monetary reasons. Where were these people fifteen years ago? Were there really millions of women in 1986 turning to their husbands and saying, ‘You know, I would love to have total strangers masturbate to images of me deep-throating a titanium dildo, but there’s simply no medium for that kind of entertainment. I guess we’ll just have to sit here and watch Falcon Crest again’.
– Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
– Joanna Martin, http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/101967-everyday-may-not-be-good-but-there-is-good-in
Slavehood is a vocation, comparable and equal in every way to any religious calling.
– J. Mikael Togneri in Spirituality In Slavehood
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
– Ralph W. Sockman, http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/89039-the-test-of-courage-comes-when-we-are-in-the