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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eed9aab | That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom; and that boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless, for boredom is nothing other than the sensation of the emptiness of existence. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| ca26266 | If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity . . . you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge--a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral. --Arthur Schopenhauer | Robert Greene | ||
| db2337f | To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that a thing is false is a piece of truth. No error is harmless: sooner or later it will bring misfortune to him who harbours it. Therefore deceive no one, but rather confess ignorance of what you do not know, and leave each man to devise his own articles of faith for himself. | responsibility social-debt | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 44ee067 | A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 855dbb4 | Marriage should be no prison, but a garden in which something higher is cultivated. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 256cda9 | The establishment of an authentic relationship with patients, by its very nature, demands that we forego the power of the triumvirate of magic, mystery, and authority. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| e719d95 | come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life fully. A good working formula is: the more unlived life, or unrealized potential, the greater one's death anxiety. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 712fa7c | If you make a mistake, admit it. Any attempt at cover-up will ultimately backfire. At some level the patient will sense you are acting in bad faith, and therapy will suffer. Furthermore, an open admission of error is good model-setting for patients and another sign that they matter to you. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| be7d725 | Masculine desire is as much an offence as it is a compliment; in so far as she feels herself responsible for her charm, or feels she is exerting it of her own accord, she is much pleased with her conquests, but to the extent that her face, her figure, her flesh are facts she must bear with, she wants to hide them from this independent stranger who lusts after them. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 8c4e0c7 | Enforced maternity brings into the world wretched infants, whom their parents will be unable to support and who will become the victims of public care or 'child martyrs'. It must be pointed out that our society, so concerned to defend the rights of the embryo, shows no interest in the children once they are born; it prosecutes the abortionists instead of undertaking to reform that scandalous institution known as 'public assistance'; those r.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 09f88c1 | Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 6d50841 | Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass." | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 6129557 | The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being." | mysticism religion religious-freedom spirituality | David James Duncan | |
| c111598 | But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty. | David James Duncan | ||
| 6bded41 | Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one. | jokes life | Lorrie Moore | |
| 4638e71 | Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| e983a55 | Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 057982c | Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 2b674a6 | Oh that. Men do fall in love with me. They seem to think me a creature with volcanic passions; I'm sure I don't know why. All the volcanic women I know are plain little creatures with sandy hair. I don't consider human volcanoes respectable. And I'm so tired of the subject. Our house is always full of women in love with my husband and men in love with me. We encourage it because it's pleasant to have company. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 57116d1 | I could do without my warhorse; I could drag about in a skirt; I could let the banners and the trumpets and the knights and soldiers pass me and leave me behind as they leave the other women, if only I could still hear the wind in the trees, the larks in the sunshine, the young lambs crying through the healthy frost, and the blessed blessed church bells that send my angel voices floating to me on the wind. But without these things I cannot .. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 397e743 | Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy. I was free. I touched pretty nigh everybody for money when I wanted it, same as I touched you, Henry Higgins. Now I am worrited; tied neck and heels; and everybody touches me for money. It's a fine thing for you, says my solicitor. Is it? says I. You mean it's a good thing for you, I says. When I was a poor man and had a solicitor once when they found a pram in the dust cart, he got me o.. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 8b879a5 | The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. | parents parents-and-children | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 1a47d92 | Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 743dac8 | He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 5f617b9 | John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards. | richards | Keith Richards | |
| 2255016 | Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners. | Keith Richards | ||
| 87a5588 | Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat. | Keith Richards | ||
| 4966fad | One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience | music songwrighting | Keith Richards | |
| f5e1648 | In any situation which involves suffering, we have to ask ourselves: "How long am I willing to pay the cost? What were the karmic propensities to begin with? How much blame is enough? Is there a time to call an end to it? How long will I hang on to it? How much sacrifice am I willing to pay to the other person for their wrongs, real or imaginary? How much guilt is enough? How much self-punishment is enough? When will I give up the secret pl.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 083284c | Amy bit her lip. "I was so scared, Dan. I couldn't think. She shook her head. "I feel so ashamed of myself. If it wasn't for you, we would have been toast." "Whoa," Dan said. "If you're throwing a pity party for yourself, don't invite me." He poked her. "You were the one who got Jonah to find us. Awesome lung power. I thought you only used that volume to get me out of the bathroom." | Jude Watson | ||
| 757416d | You're a model? Never would have guessed," Jonah said in a lazy, teasing voice that caused Hamilton's head to swivel. He'd never seen Jonah flirt before. The girl tilted her head. The glossy hair spilled down one bare shoulder. " ...you look familiar." Jonah grinned. "Yeah?" "'Ave we met? Are you an 'airdresser?" "A ?" Jonah choked out. "Guys, we'd better get going," Hamilton said. "The name is Jonah," Jonah said, pronuncing his name caref.. | Jude Watson | ||
| 0ca052d | In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity. | writing-craft | James Scott Bell | |
| 9bc2f8a | the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he has had his own experience with. | stigma | Erving Goffman | |
| baa0838 | Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat. | Richard Curtis | ||
| 1ad0924 | When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished. | self-awareness | Mitch Albom | |
| fd3335d | What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2f70b39 | He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 58cc260 | What will you do with the time you have left? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1d00a4f | She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 070a2dc | There are moments on earth when the Lord smiles at the unexpected sweetness of His creation. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b4bafc2 | el amor no se piensa: se siente o no se siente. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 7c5c4ed | lymn lHq nfyD ls`d@ ltfh@ | happiness | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 2d4d572 | m fy'd@ l`ql fy `lm l m`qwl | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f1960fb | 'lm y`bdwh bl'ms? 'lm ykn lqy'd wlz`ym wlm`lm wlmlhm? 'y nfq w'y khs@ w'y jbn! jyl ystHq ltSfy@ mn nSdq?! 'nSdq m yuql lan ?! | Naguib Mahfouz |