The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Charles Horton Cooley
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of... →
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
Mason Cooley
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
While there's life, there's fear.
Advertising is the life of trade.
Calvin Coolidge
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.
Jennifer Coolidge