There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.
– Floriano Martins
Related Quotes:
- The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy. – Floriano Martins
- I protect myself by refusing to know myself. – Floriano Martins
- There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature. – Floriano Martins
- To duplicate meanings is to isolate the consciousness. – Floriano Martins
- Ideals make reason inaccessible. – Floriano Martins
- Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening. – Floriano Martins
- To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore them all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect. – Lundy Bancroft
- Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse. – Criss Jami
- The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me. – Gottfried Benn
- Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key – Israelmore Ayivor
- Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not -œcure- partner abuse. – Lundy Bancroft
- Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and… No thinking is far better then positive thinking – Ed Strachar
- Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it. – Orrin Woodward
- It’s helpful to remember that God doesn’t belong to Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone. We belong to God, not the other way around. – Rev Kellen Roggenbuck
- You belong to all of us, and we belong to you. – Sarah J Maas
- Naira is our currency, belong to our country and belong to the people. Buy made in Nigeria to grow the Naira to make it value. – Saminu Kanti
- Naira is our currency, belong to our country and belong to the people. Buy made in Nigeria let’s grow the Naira to make it value. – Saminu Kanti
- Things do not belong to us but we belong to things. – Debasish Mridha
- You know who you belong to, Jack?--œYeah.--œYourself.-He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. – Emma Donoghue
- West Virginia had the Hatfield and the McCoys. Shakespeare had the Capulets and the Montagues. Salvation had the Martins and the Sweets. – Avery Flynn
- Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you. – LH
- People who avoid their fears also avoid their power. – Timothy Roderick
- You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company. – Caspar David Friedrich
- To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. – Lionel Shriver
- Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipw – Guy de Maupassant
- To live is to die. To die is to live. To avoid death, is to avoid living. – Sunday Adelaja
- When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you. – Debasish Mridha
- Before sex, a man isn’t thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn’t. – Sherry Argov
- The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and listened to you altogether. – Ellery Queen
- I’ve been thinking.-That snapped Piper back to the present. Coming from your boyfriend, I’ve been thinking was kind of a scary line. – Rick Riordan
- Some stuff which I do aren’t some kind a cheats or this kind a of stuff it’s about thinking and it’s about how clever am I! – Deyth Banger
- Whatever you abuse will return to hunt you. Cultivate the self discipline to use everything within the environment God created them for. – Paul Bamikole
- Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. – Shannon L Alder
- To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom. – Leah Stewart
- Humans are the worst kind of animals because of the circles they belong to. – MF Moonzajer
- Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images. – Ishmael Beah