Quotes Tagged "faults"

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!

ART The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's. I wish that I could touch you and be sure that it was the right thing to do. I only want to touch you briefly. Just once so that you will know. We are flesh and blood and full of faults. But we are also full of warmth. The world is full of confusion but there is compassion in its midst. communication via simple touch can transmit so much of us in just one minute. Like a painting or a piece of music. I want to touch your soul. I only wish I could be sure it was the right thing to do.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.