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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 908757f | Not many people know how to be satisfied. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e3448e5 | But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently no longer takes any share in his individual phenomenon, because in him knowledge has, as it were, burnt up and consumed the will, so that no will, thus no desire for individual existence, remains in him any more. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 4d25709 | There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say. | authorship truth writing | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 099a242 | When you consider how great and immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence - so great and so immediate that as soon as you are aware of it, it overshadows and obscures all other problems and aims; and when you then see how men, with a few rare exceptions, have no clear awareness of this problem, indeed seem not to be conscious of it at all, but concern themselves with anything rather tha.. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| ab7d910 | Genius lives only one storey above madness | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| e3c166f | In savage countries they eat one another, in civilized they deceive one another; and that is what people call the way of the world! | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 032ea38 | Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. Contrarily, if they are active within, they do not care to be dragged out of themselves; it disturbs and impedes their thoughts in a way that is often most ruinous to them. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 6792fb3 | Look out the other's window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 9b20b4b | Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| ebd2aa9 | He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies! | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 79d8acb | The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
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| 386288e | The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over--this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 6daac7c | To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition - irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad. | horror madness mankind | Peter Straub | |
| 175ae68 | She thought, instead, with longing of more books--of buying books--of slipping into a narrative of other people's lives. That was release. | Peter Straub | ||
| d3fe3ce | Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony. | Ann Beattie | ||
| 1b1b29c | Though she would have preferred long ago to have died, fled, gotten it all over with, the body--Jesus, how the body!--took its time. It possessed its own wishes and nostalgias. You could not just turn neatly into light and slip out the window. You couldn't go like that. Within one's own departing but stubborn flesh, there was only the long, sentimental, piecemeal farewell. The body, hauling sadness, pursued the soul, hobbled after. The bo.. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| a41d7fc | She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| d05ce33 | Everybody has choices, Mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of Newnham; but she can choose between rag-picking and flower-selling, according to her taste. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't fin.. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| a8cb7e8 | Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. | progress | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 64c209a | Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation | heaven | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 184bae4 | Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out. At best, we can only be free one or two at a time--while the other dudes hold onto the wire. Which is not to say that no one has tried to dispense with wires. Many have, and sometimes it works--but it doesn't feel like when it.. | music rock-and-roll society | Dave Hickey | |
| 537371d | People think, "Oh, I'm being selfish if I allow somebody to be helpful to my life." Actually, it's being generous. Generosity is the willingness to share your life with others. It's a gift to people to allow them to love you." | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 69eca61 | Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way" (Frankl, [1959]" | David R. Hawkins | ||
| b334675 | Greatness is the courage to overcome obstacles. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| cb88781 | Great minds think alike-especially when they are female. | dowager-queen funny | Christina Dodd | |
| 7d061e5 | It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important. | self-absorption | William Raymond Manchester | |
| 2602f6f | I'm so hungry," Amy said sleepily. "Hey, you stole my line," Dan said." | Jude Watson | ||
| 2a45b90 | My work is one long triumph over my limitations. | Charles Willeford | ||
| c206728 | when doing science (or perhaps when doing anything at all in a society as judgmental as our own), be very careful and very certain before pronouncing something to be a norm - because at that instant, you have made it supremely difficult to ever again look objectively at an exception to that supposed norm. | Robert M Sapolsky | ||
| 4da6ee4 | Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action. | pessimistic self | Robert M. Sapolsky | |
| ba9bd51 | Sunlight bent around the world, lending fragile color to wildflowers. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3dbdd10 | If the AG had been a lightbulb instead of a lawyer, he would have been about a twenty-watt. | John Sandford | ||
| fe53b7b | So she made no secret about being gay?" "Why should she?" the little old lady asked. "Nobody would care but a bunch of stuffy old men." | John Sandford | ||
| 67fa139 | We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills the soul, kills compassion, understanding, nobility. It leaves no time for caring what happens to other people, least of all crim.. | Henri Charrière | ||
| 1b8a095 | A man can get killed in there. | Robert Jordan | ||
| bc0332d | Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 62a6aa5 | How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise? | Mitch Albom | ||
| b9724f7 | There are no random acts. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1c61594 | The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 789afeb | Everybody knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently,' Morrie said. 'So we kid ourselves about death,' I (Mitch) said. 'Yes, but there's a better approach. To know you're going to die and be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can be actually be more involved in your life while you're living. . . Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the da.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| afada94 | Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 17d6534 | All blessings do not bless the same. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0a16653 | EVERYONE JOINS A BAND IN THIS LIFE. You are born into your first one. Your mother plays the lead. She shares the stage with your father and siblings. Or perhaps your father is absent, an empty stool under a spotlight. But he is still a founding member, and if he surfaces one day, you will have to make room for him. As life goes on, you will join other bands, some through friendship, some through romance, some through neighborhoods, school, .. | Mitch Albom |