What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?
These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.
Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.
Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.
I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.
Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.
Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth
I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact. . . but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.
