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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3371474 | Thirty-six. If you want to shrink something, you must first expand it. If you want to get rid of something, you must allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must allow it to be given. The soft will overcome the hard. The slow will beat the fast. Don't tell people the way, just show them the results. | James Frey | ||
| 7b15113 | Anyone who truly wants to escape human solipsism should not seek out empty places. Instead of fleeing to desert, where they will be thrown back into their own thoughts, they will d better to seek out the company of other animals. A zoo is a better window from which to look out of the human world than a monastery. | the-unsaved the-end extinction humans | John Gray | |
| 363a773 | A woman should not be judged for needing this reassurance, just as a man should not be judged for needing to withdraw. | John Gray | ||
| 6547c98 | In Europe and Japan, bourgeois life lingers on. In Britain and America it has become the stuff of theme parks. The middle class is a luxury capitalism can no longer afford. | John Gray | ||
| f3f4ed8 | A man's deepest fear is that he is not good enough or that he is incompetent. He compensates for this fear by focusing on increasing his power and competence. Success, achievement, and efficiency are foremost in his life ... A man appears most uncaring when he is afraid. | John Gray | ||
| a04c187 | To think of humans as freedom-loving, you must be ready to view nearly all of history as a mistake. | John Gray | ||
| 4b566f1 | Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems. | John Gray | ||
| 5d88636 | A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself. | principles | Jean M. Auel | |
| 7728aae | When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling -- meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves. Addiction becomes a surrogate for our calling. We enact the addiction instead of embracing the calling. Why? Because to follow a calling requires work. It's hard. It hurts. It demands entering the pain-zone of effort, risk, and exposure. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| f320ae5 | No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 4f88cf2 | Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion. | resistance | Steven Pressfield | |
| 2631472 | The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| b925600 | The enemy is Resistance. | self-help | Steven Pressfield | |
| b62876b | And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing." | raistlin margaret-weis | Margaret Weis | |
| ff96b5e | Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating." | Margaret Weis | ||
| f543a91 | Three old women were bending in the fields. What use is it to question us? they said. Well it shortly became clear that they knew everything there is to know about the snowy fields and the blue green shoots and the plant called "audacity", which poets mistake for violets. I began to copy out everything that was said. ... I will do anything to escape boredom. It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never u.. | Anne Carson | ||
| bc52d86 | He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew. | psychology | Anne Carson | |
| 042feb2 | in that blurred state between awake and asleep when too many intake valves are open in the soul. Like the terrestial crust of the earth which is proportionately 10 times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul is a miracle of mutual pressures. Millions of kilograms of force pounding up from earth's core on the inside to meet the cold air of the world and stop as we do, just in time. | Anne Carson | ||
| a17edda | I am talking about evil. It blooms. It eats. It grins. | Anne Carson | ||
| 68f7df9 | Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao. | Jung Chang | ||
| 6494360 | Since I am wise, some people envy me, some think I'm idle, some the opposite, and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise. | Euripides | ||
| 14d7a36 | Old loves are dropped when new ones come | tutor play | Euripides | |
| c626d79 | Gods often contradict our fondest expectations. What we anticipate does not come to pass. What we don't expect some god finds a way to make it happen. So with this story | Euripides | ||
| c0f243b | Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life. | tragedy morality the-death-of-tragedy greek-mythology socrates | John Gray | |
| 06f5ff5 | That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time. | poetry | Euripides | |
| 618363b | The Old Days, the Lost Days -- in the half-closed eyes of memory (and in fact) they never marched across a calendar; they huddled round a burning log, leaned on a certain table, or listened to those certain songs. | memories past reminiscence | Beryl Markham | |
| 96b9ab0 | La ausencia era eso. Un lugar que uno conoce y recuerda de memoria, como si fuera una foto, donde uno falta. | Ricardo Piglia | ||
| ba64c20 | Nunca la conocere del todo", penso, como en una repentina y dolorosa revelacion. Estaba ahi, al alcance de su mano y de su boca. En cierto modo estaba sin defensa !pero que lejana, que inaccesible que estaba! Intuia que grandes abismos la separaban (no solamente el abismo del sueno sino otros) y que para llegar hasta el centro de ella habria que marchar durante jornadas temibles, al borde de vol canes en erupcion, entre llamaradas y tiniebl.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 8ddb725 | I am seeing that woman for the first and last time. I will never in my lifetime see her again.' My thoughts floated aimlessly, like a cork down an uncharted river. For a moment they bobbed around the woman beneath the thatch. What did she matter to me? But I could not rid myself of the thought that, for an instant, she was a part of my life that would never be repeated; from my point of view it was as if she were already dead: a brief delay.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| aab139b | Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us. | Daniel Pinchbeck | ||
| 068e1dd | The alchemist saw the union of opposites under the symbol of the tree, and it is therefore not surprising that the unconscious of present-day man, who no longer feels at home in his world and can base his existence neither on the past that is no more nor on the future that is yet to be, should hark back to the symbol of the cosmic tree rooted in this world and growing up to heaven - the tree that is also man. In the history of symbols this .. | existence history symbology unconscious | C.G. Jung | |
| 1a56de3 | Suz, carrying Savich's plate, the scrambled eggs steaming, stopped to stare after Rachael. 'Isn't this par for the course--a sexy guy with two girls--I'll just bet the little readhead here threatened to whomp the blonde with that cute braid, right?' 'You're very observant, Suz,' Savich said. Sherlock rolled her eyes. | Catherine Coulter | ||
| 348cd27 | Nietzsche was right. I won't take the time to tell you who Nietzsche was, but he was right. The world belongs to the strong - to the strong who are noble as well and who do not wallow in the swine-trough of trade and exchange. The world belongs to the true nobleman, to the great blond beasts, to the noncompromisers, to the 'yes-sayers. | Jack London | ||
| 3176def | In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them." | compassion god hope | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 09e10e9 | I like the plain, old-fashioned churches, built for use, not show, where people met for hearty praying and preaching, and where everybody made their own music instead of listening to opera singers, as we do now. I don't care if the old churches were bare and cold, and the seats hard, there was real piety in them, and the sincerity of it was felt in the lives of the people. I don't want a religion that I put away with my Sunday clothes, and .. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 80de6a8 | The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 769250f | I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream. | dreams | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 36ace92 | It's bad enough to love someone who don't love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I'm getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don't know what will happen to me. - Polly | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ceb45e3 | Women work a good many miracles... | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| fecdd1d | Love will make you show your heart someday... | love-quotes love | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 6b2e11f | wisely mingled poetry and prose. | poetry louisa-may-alcott prose | Louisa May Alcott | |
| b2d1756 | It is necessary to do right; it is not necessary to be happy. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| a128d1d | I don't like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I'm going to find some. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 497a85e | Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season. | Louisa May Alcott |