“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), p. 400
“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
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Review of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in the newspaper Alger Républicain (20 October 1938), p. 5; also quoted in Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd (2002) by Avi Sagi, p. 43
Context: It is the failing of a certain literature to believe that life is tragic because it is wretched.
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live. And M. Sartre's hero does not perhaps give us the real meaning of his anguish when he insists on those aspects of man he finds repugnant, instead of basing his reasons for despair on certain of man's signs of greatness.
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“Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Variant: Prayer begins where our power ends.
“People don't realize that there is another choice.”
Gary Johnson (1953) American politician, businessman, and 29th Governor of New Mexico
2016, Interview with CNBC's John Harwood (August 22, 2016)
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Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author
Source: Faithless
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P. D. Ouspensky (1878–1947) Russian esotericist
As quoted in Zen and the Art of Making a Living : A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design (1999) by Laurence G. Boldt, p. 118
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
