Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.
The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.
When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of cities. The ability of cities to, over time, remain in balance with the resource streams that are available to them, and they have to do with social justice and equity of the fundamental conditions of satisfactory citizenship.
The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to the transformatory distinctions Kingston makes between the conditions of being a prose writer and "the poet," my multigenre impulses incline me to a broader transformation: to be a writer.
Try and identify where the money can go to create conditions for true systemic change.
There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?
Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.
Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.
You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.
Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met. . . I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.
No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.
You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1. ) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2. ) Trying is no longer fun.