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| d428c3f | It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because .. | humor life pleasure | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 1fad6b3 | Son, that's a pretty hard question to answer. But I do believe that any wish you make can come true if you help the wish. I don't think that the Lord meant for our lives to be so simple and easy that every time we wanted something, all we had to do was wish for it and we'd get it. I don't believe that at all. If that were true, there would be a lot of lazy people in this old world. No one would be working. Everyone would be wishing for what.. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| f6198a5 | Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm. | Kim Edwards | ||
| 2eeefa5 | On an impulse he went into the room and stood before the window, pushing aside the sheer curtain to watch the snow, now nearly eight inches high on the lampposts and the fences and the roofs. It was the sort of storm that rarely happened in Lexington, and the steady white flakes, the silence, filled him with a sense of excitement and peace. It was a moment when all the disparate shards of his life seemed to knit themselves together, every p.. | storms | Kim Edwards | |
| 4c77ac3 | I have lost my friends," D'Artagnan said ruefully, burying his head in his hands. "I have nothing left but the bitterest of recollections..." Two large tears rolled down his cheeks. "You are young," Athos answered. "Your bitter recollections have the time requisite to change into the happiest of memories." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| dd14766 | One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 9537e32 | He means that he hopes to find himself a girl, the rarest of rare pieces, and live the life of Rudolfo on the balcony, sitting around on the floor and experiencing soul-communications. I have my doubts. In the first place, he will defeat himself, jump ten miles ahead of himself, scare the wits out of some girl with his great choking silences, want her so desperately that by his own peculiar logic he can't have her; or having her, jump anoth.. | Walker Percy | ||
| a14e1ec | For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher. | Walker Percy | ||
| d2a8f77 | In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man. | man | Walker Percy | |
| e7a7705 | Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison." -- "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists" | Woody Allen | ||
| 0df7589 | My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought. Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking min.. | in-arabian-nights knowledge stories sufis sufism wisdom | Tahir Shah | |
| 2684aa4 | If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps.. | life-and-living | Steve Martin | |
| 741102a | Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place. | Steve Martin | ||
| 42fd697 | FatherMichael has entered the room Wildflower: Ah don't tell me you're through a divorce yourself Father? SureOne: Don't be silly Wildflower, have a bit of respect! He's here for the ceremony. Wildflower: I know that. I was just trying to lighten the atmosphere. FatherMichael: So have the loving couple arrived yet? SureOne: No but it's customary for the bride to be late. FatherMichael: Well is the groom here? SingleSam has entered th.. | love rosie | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 3b0adb8 | I generally don't become overexcited about things anyway, I'm just not one of those people. I'm not easily surprised by things either. I think it's because I expect that anything can happen | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 1f310fd | Beggars can't be choosers. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ffd81d3 | I am hungry for something to do, somewhere to go. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f55f2a2 | I generally don't become overexcited about things anyway, I'm just not one of those people.I'm not easily surprised by things either. I think it's because I expect that anything can happen. That makes me sound like a believer and I'm not necessarily that either. I'll phrase it better: I just accept things that happen. All things. | cecelia-ahern inspirational life quote | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 24d3814 | People who constantly looked over their shoulders bumped into things. Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 42e7506 | They aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f1a7822 | Her stillness defeated his storm. | passive-resistance peace-of-mind | Chris Gardner | |
| 86d27ce | There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d93eee8 | It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that? | marriage | Jodi Picoult | |
| e686e69 | How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| da51564 | Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3010cbf | History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 994ec05 | The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| aa6b177 | There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster. | murder | Jodi Picoult | |
| 5e5ea3b | There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There is only you, and him, so impossibly close that nothing can come between. Not the enemy, not your allies. In this safe haven, in this hallowed place and time, I could even ask the questions whose answers I feared. | intimacy | Jodi Picoult | |
| 577d535 | It was almost as if there was a tear in the fabric I was made of, and he was the only color thread that would match to stitch it back up. | romance | Jodi Picoult | |
| 124bf7a | You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3dec157 | When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a toddler. What I wanted to say to you, but didn't, was this: | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 196d87d | It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e758579 | I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b4b44b6 | They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 990116a | Dreaming is the closest the average human gets to the paranormal plane; it's the time when the mind lets down its guard and the walls get thin enough for there to be glimpses to the other side. That's why, after sleeping, so many people report a visit from someone who's passed. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 78e7855 | You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8649963 | People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes. | jodi-picoult the-tenth-circle | Jodi Picoult | |
| db45759 | If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c4a17e8 | Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 01d428f | Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump." | plain-truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| a8f968f | by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago. | life past | Jodi Picoult | |
| ec06235 | You get through it, you just never get over it | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8dedbec | the universe wants from us is two things: don't do any intentional harm to yourself or anyone else, and get happy. | Jodi Picoult |