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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b5b6605 | Each man cannot judge except by himself," he said, blushing. "There will be entire freedom when it makes no difference whether one lives or does not live. That is the goal to everything." "The goal? But then perhaps no one will even want to live?" "No one," he said resolutely. "Man is afraid of death because he loves life, that's how I understand it," I observed, "and that is what nature tells us." "That is base, that is the whole deceit!" .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c63f6de | Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2b9eb81 | What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f0d94d9 | Love one another, fathers," the elder taught (as far as Alyosha could recall afterwards). "Love God's people. For we are not holier than those in the world because we have come here and shut ourselves within these walls, but, on the contrary, anyone who comes here, by the very fact that he has come, already knows himself to be worse than all those who are in the world, worse than all on earth...And the longer a monk lives within his walls, .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 13fb5f7 | we are all privately agreed that it is better in books | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
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| 151edd0 | He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved." | pride self-assuredness truism | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 96cb6c5 | We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked. | pure sweet | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 646c241 | The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred. | evil hatred | Honoré de Balzac | |
| dfe845f | Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| b625a2c | Really? If I could hate my trainer? That would be ideal. I'd prefer to despise this person with the fire of ten thousand suns. So when I walk - nay, crawl - out of here at the end of my workouts, I want to lull myself to sleep by picturing my very talented and inspirational trainer getting hit by a bus. A bus that I am driving. | weight-loss | Jen Lancaster | |
| 8242e88 | I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| ad1241d | Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| d58e79b | TO EVERY THING there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| c6b6db5 | Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and temporary, separation from body and breath. His superconscious state is a freedom from the delusion that "existence" depends on body and breath. God lives without breath; the soul made in his image becomes conscious of itself, for the first time, only during the breathless state." | sleep soul | Paramahansa Yogananda | |
| bf4b060 | Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| ef3356e | If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| ecfaa7c | Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 9df7f29 | There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will." ( )" | salvation self-determination sin | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| f7bd407 | emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 129a282 | Leadership is not domination, but the art of persuading people to work toward a common goal. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 6729496 | Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own." | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 324c345 | Man's world is manifold, and his attitudes are manifold. What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them. They like to be told that there are two worlds and two ways. This is comforting because it is so tidy. Almost always one way turns out to be common and the other is celebrated as superior. Those who tell of two ways and praise one are recognised as pr.. | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| 65e0bd8 | I might have been a little mesmerized for a moment as I took in the sight of her shapely backside. It was incredible. I just wanted to spank it and bite it and worship it and completely fucking defile it. | Penny Reid | ||
| d5d250c | Road trips can either suck monkey balls or, with the right person, they can be awesomesauce with cheesy fries. | Penny Reid | ||
| dfea42b | I didn't tell her, because I didn't think it would help, but all people are lost, to varying degrees. I suspected that it's only when we love others--through purpose, friendship, romance, or any combination thereof--that we become found. | friendship love | Penny Reid | |
| f418512 | Everything is temporary, Duane. This," he gestured to our surroundings, "this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and you hold on to it for as long as it lasts." | Penny Reid | ||
| 0c1578c | You're a siren who doesn't need to sing. | Penny Reid | ||
| 3734924 | Martin wasn't smiling, but his eyes were warm and interested. "Do you always talk like that?" "Like what? Like awesome?" "Yeah, like awesome." -- | Penny Reid | ||
| ccd8ff6 | There but for the grace of God,' said John Bradford in the sixteenth century, on seeing wretches led to execution, 'go I.' What this apparently compassionate observation really means--not that it really 'means' anything--is, 'There by the grace of God goes someone else. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| cc9d1dc | The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. | law tyranny | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 2867383 | Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| d322dc9 | Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't. | literature nadine-gordimer writing | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 3caf720 | If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a trampled and cleansed province of Greater Serbia, Kosovo would have been emptied of most of its inhabitants, and the Taliban would still be in power in Afghanistan. Yet nothing seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority of those that intone the "peace movement"." | leftism noninterventionism pacifism peace-movement | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 28d23ab | Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar. | fun pressure wit | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 0484503 | The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 5a7573a | I'm going to order us a drink. A bourbon sounds excellent on this crisp fall afternoon." Ian signaled for the waiter. "Against my better judgment, I'll order you a glass of wine. According to your credit card statement, you had a staggering amount of chardonnay delivered to your apartment last month. I think you might want to take one of those 'Could I Be an Alcoholic' quizzes the next time you come across one, just to see what it says." | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| bf1e67c | Your scorn for mediocrity blinds you to its vast primitive power. You stand in the glare of your own brilliance, unable to see into the dim corners of the room, to dilate your eyes and see the potential dangers of the mass, the wad of humanity. Even as I tell you this, dear student, you cannot quite believe that lesser men, in whatever numbers, can really defeat you. But we are in the age of the mediocre man. He is dull, colorless, boring -.. | inarticulate masses shibumi wad | Trevanian | |
| c5ee90c | It would be a dull world if we all thought alike. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| b66cb65 | I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 356fcd9 | Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. | pride sin smugness | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 9835a08 | Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. | dogma mystery | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 657782e | In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees i.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 4cb45b9 | Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but.. | Flannery O'Connor |