A Quote by Ayn Rand
No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)
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"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"
Dominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."
Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.
If Gail Kim gets in my business, I'll make sure there is no more Gail Kim.
Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.
The pain that you hold is yours. There is not a single pain quite like it. Nobody else on God's green earth can feel this pain, or have the indescribable feeling of pride you will have when you overcome it. This pain is not your curse; this pain is your privilege.
No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see,
That though the English are effete
They're quite impervious to heat.
I'm a happy person. Sometimes, I have to make a conscious effort to stay happy. See, my predispositions are - as opposed to what you see - I'm actually quite a sensitive person, very empathetic, very emotional... Very impulsive.
Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.
Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.
I'm quite a happy person.
If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.
The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.'
The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.
Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.
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