“There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.”
Whosoever Will Save His Life, Tambuli, Feb 1983, 1.
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President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1910–2008Related quotes
Variant: Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
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“Something that is merely negative creates nothing.”
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“There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.”
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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 301
Source: A Passage to India (1924), Ch. 14
Context: Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself", or, “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
