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| c35d22e | Now you must cast aside your laziness," my master said, "for he who rests on down or under covers cannot come to fame; and he who spends his life without renown leaves such a vestige of himself on earth as smoke bequeaths to air or foam to water. Therefore, get up; defeat your breathlessness with spirit that can win all battles if the body's heaviness does not deter it. A longer ladder still is to be climbed; it's not enough to have left th.. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| b32f0ec | And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the .. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 895f41a | And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts steadfast companions will stand by him and hold the line. | gifts leadership seamus-heaney | Seamus Heaney | |
| 15288b3 | The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it. | ignorance truth | David Gemmell | |
| 8427416 | I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding | Beatrix Potter | ||
| 5ff3feb | Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take care of. If we didn't cage them up in one place, we might lose them, they might get hurt or damaged. It's not the best thing, but it's the only way we have to take care of them." "But if somebod.. | family foster-care memoirs neglect nun runaway stuffed-animals youth | Jennings Michael Burch | |
| ff6e09f | nh mn l'fDl 'n t`ysh qdrk nqSan mn 'n t`ysh tqlydan lHy@ ry'`@ lshkhS akhr | novel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| f5695f4 | Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| c0e7c56 | But I find God to be an ineffectual shrink. He adopts the "do nothing" method of therapy. You tell him your problems and he, ah, does nothing." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| ec34358 | Just thoughts of what I have to do. Homework. And it comes up to my brain and I look at it and think "I'm not going to be able to do that" and then it cycles back down and the next one comes up. And then things come up like "You should be doing more extracurricular activities" because I should, I don't do near enough, and that gets pushed down and it's replaced with the big one: "What college are you going into, Craig?" which is like the do.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| a79846e | I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 3af715d | Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story. | relates-to-me | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c647be0 | One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her best to ignore it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 30017ac | I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress. | elizabeth-gilbert love pray | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| cf26723 | I felt a glimmer of happiness when I started studying Italian, and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fed0699 | What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well. --LORD PERCEVAL | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e121c2c | I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along. | love-story | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 740c904 | Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything | foreign-language italian | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| edbba2e | The field of honor is a painful field...(It) is not a place where children can play. Children don't have any honor, you see, and they aren't expected to, because it's too difficult for them. It's too painful. But to become an adult, one must step into the field of honor. Everything will be expected of you now. You will need to be vigilant in your principles. Sacrifices will be demanded. You will be judged. If you make mistakes, you must acc.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 059cd31 | To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 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 |