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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e779191 | In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a business or profession that their wives require them to be successful, it is because they alone embody transcendence that their wives wish to rob them of it by taking charge... | marriage truth | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 1953e43 | Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 810625b | The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another; it is never the given that confers superiorities: 'virtue', as the ancients called it, is defined on the level of 'that which depends on us'. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| f490a3d | All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted one hand and moved the fingers of it; they responded, in surprise and obedience, and this obedience of a thousand little unsuspected muscles was in itself a miracle. Why ask for more? | life | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| d22409d | Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 2b9d85b | The thing I understood least of all was that knowledge led to despair and damnation. Our spiritual mentor had not said that those bad books had given a false picture of life: if that had been the case, he could easily have exposed their falsehood; the tragedy of the little girl whom he had failed to bring to salvation was that she had made a premature discovery of the true nature of reality. Well, anyhow, I thought, I shall discover it myse.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 428e3ea | There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 62cd6aa | maintenant je n'ai plus de regrets,parce que les choses qui n'existent pas pour moi,il me semble qu'elles n'existent absolument pas. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 012b91e | I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there's the true, preestablished balance. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 56979f4 | The validity of the cook's work is to be found only in the mouths of those at her table; she needs their approbation, demands that they appreciate her dishes and call for second helpings; she is upset if they are not hungry, to the point that one wonders whether the fried potatoes are for her husband or her husband for the fried potatoes. | feminism women second-sex | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| c259937 | Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true. | David James Duncan | ||
| e8ac71a | To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe. A piece of the universe? A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him. | Peter Straub | ||
| e2661ad | I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other. | Victoria Finlay | ||
| 7632d53 | Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance. | planning | Alan Dean Foster | |
| 04740d3 | Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| b672629 | Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 67f0995 | Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindnesses and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected change of the game. One could hold the cards oneself or not: they would land the same regardless. | lorrie-moore luck | Lorrie Moore | |
| 1e0db5a | One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 6a273e5 | Like everyone he knew, he could discern the hollowness in people's charm only when it was directed at someone other than himself. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| a21f1c6 | You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| cbbc468 | In contrast, nonattachment allows full participation in life without trying to control outcomes. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 58a1e10 | That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them | poets writing writers | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 458899b | You may remember that on earth--though of course we never confessed it--the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them. | don-juan-in-hell | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 1ed0b41 | HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper? MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge... | language | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 80d54c5 | When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| b4cdb6e | We must face the fact that society is founded on intolerance. [. . .] We may prate of toleration as we will; but society must always draw a line somewhere between allowable conduct and insanity or crime, in spite of the risk of mistaking sages for lunatics and saviours for blasphemers. We must persecute, even to the death; and all we can do to mitigate the danger of persecution is, first, to be very careful what we persecute, and second, to.. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 9bdbc26 | A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid. | Keith Richards | ||
| 4cdbab6 | You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've be.. | Keith Richards | ||
| 85e2056 | They'd been played. By a ! | Jude Watson | ||
| 9b1b724 | Listen!" "Jonah!" Amy breathed." | Jude Watson | ||
| 692ddb1 | If we accept that there will always be sides, it's a nontrivial to-do list item to always be on the side of angels. Distrust essentialism. Keep in mind that what seems like rationality is often just rationalization, playing catch-up with subterranean forces that we never suspect. Focus on the larger, shared goals. Practice perspective taking. Individuate, individuate, individuate. Recall the historical lessons of how often the truly maligna.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| a8e80f5 | Why should people in one part of the globe have developed collectivist cultures, while others went individualist? The United States is the individualism poster child for at least two reasons. First there's immigration. Currently, 12 percent of Americans are immigrants, another 12 percent are children of immigrants, and everyone else except for the 0.9 percent pure Native Americans descend from people who emigrated within the last five hundr.. | individualism | Robert M. Sapolsky | |
| b74a0a3 | In other words, the default state is to trust, and what the amygdala does is learn vigilance and distrust. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| d513cca | Here I want to stress that perception of losing one's mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to the significance of symptoms such as hearing voices, losing temporal and spatial orientation, and sensing that one is being followed, and that many of the most spectacular and convincing of these symptoms in some instances psychiatrically signify merely a temporary emotional upset in a stressful situation, howev.. | stereotypes madness stigmatization mental-health-stigma stigma stigmatized mental-hospital | Erving Goffman | |
| d9481e6 | We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily have joined in proclaiming its death. A substantial number of Americans who believe they worship God actually worship three major literary characters: the Yahweh of the J Writer (earliest author of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers), the Jesus of the Gospel of Mark, and Allah of the Koran. | Harold Bloom | ||
| ab9b1ef | Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| be73540 | Think about every single person who has ever harmed you, cheated you, defrauded you, or said unkind things about you. Your experience of them is nothing more than a thought that you carry around with you. These thoughts of resentment, anger, and hatred represent slow, debilitating energies that will disempower you. If you could release them, you would know more peace. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 32e1337 | If you follow the herd, you'll end up stepping in shit. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| c1d6825 | A horse blanket, Mel? I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right for me.' Bran laughed a little unsteadly. 'Mel. A . | funny brother-and-sister horse | Sherwood Smith | |
| 4a8ebd2 | Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 9a90564 | The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| a7c95c1 | Lord, I pray that my husband will be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God, so he can stand against the enemy every day. Enable him to take up the shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. | relationships prayer shield praying wife enemy husband | Stormie Omartian | |
| d35141a | rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you" (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)." | Stormie Omartian | ||
| cd2859f | The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves. | Ben Bova |