Quotes of Michel De Certeau

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As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.

- Michel De Certeau

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“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences – increases your selfesteem – boosts confidence in your ability to decisions – and ultimately leads to achieve success in life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita. ”

- Soe Hok Gie

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love. ”

- Thomas S. Monson

“ Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas