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| 04ace47 | Listen...You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create suffering, cause harm and death. It empowers them, for beneath the skin they are empty and worthless. | David Gemmell | ||
| 734f235 | An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground. | enemy flowers | David Gemmell | |
| 1cc9393 | How simple love would be, Younger Brother, if we only had to bestow it on those who deserved it. Yet what would it be worth? If you gave a poor man a silver coin then that would be a gift. If you expected him to pay you back, then that would make it a loan. We do not loan our love, Lantern. We give it freely. | David Gemmell | ||
| f636985 | Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust beautifully describes: We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him which we compose in our minds, these ideas have certainly the principal place. In the end they come to fill out so completely the curve of his cheeks.. | metaphor proust psychology psychology-analysis translation-error | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| cbd22eb | We should cherish things because they are true, not because they are old. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| cec4c22 | if we hope for more significant therapeutic change, we must encourage our patients to assume responsibility--that is, to apprehend how they themselves contribute to their distress. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 9842cac | Insanlar vedalasirken genellikle olayin surekliligini inkar eden sozler dile getirmeyi severler. Birbirlerinden ayrilirken 'Auf Wiedersehen', yani tekrar gorusene kadar, derler. Yeni bir araya gelme planlari yapmakta cok aceleci davranirlar, ama bunu unutmakta daha acelecidirler. Ben bu tur insanlardan degilim. Gercegi soylemeyi tercih ederim ki gercek de buyuk bir ihtimalle bir daha karsilasmayacak oldugumuzdur. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| da0f80b | We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities. | Joseph Chilton Pearce | ||
| 741c578 | If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind" (Chapter 65,p. 68)" | Edward Gibbon | ||
| fd1b1a6 | I'm New-" "New? How blessed," he said. "There's nothing in this whole wide world that is better than a new person!" | Sharon Creech | ||
| 569d345 | I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful." | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 3d7338c | There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people - younger people - are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting paid and winning scholarships and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| bc4467b | I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me. When I pop into Aaron's, I continue my normal routine of wasting time. I turn the light off first. Then I sigh. Then I turn around, face the door I just closed, pull down my pants, and fall on the toilet-- I don't sit; I fall like a carcass, feeling my butt accommodate the rim. Then I pu.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 39b2d11 | longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8224a65 | This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark. This act, the act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a70ac6c | Anyhow, what else are you going to do with your time here on earth--not make things? Not do interesting stuff? Not follow your love and your curiosity? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1fcc50e | I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building or blowing my brains out with a gun might stop the suffering. but something about spending a night with a knife in my hand did it. The next morning I called my friend Susan as the sun came up, begged her to help me. I don't think a woman in the whole history of my family had ever done that before, had e.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 455067d | Khorata misliat, che srodna dusha e onzi, koito idealno ti pasva, i vsichki iskat tova. No istinskata srodna dusha e ogledalo -- tak'v chovek ti pokazva vsichko, koeto te zad'rzha, nasochva k'm teb sobstvenoto ti vnimanie, za da mozhesh da promenish zhivota si. Istinski srodnata dusha e mozhe bi nai-vazhniiat chovek, koito niakoga shche sreshchnesh, zashchoto s'baria stenite ti i te shamarosva, za da se s'budish. No da zhiveesh s's srodna d.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c421ac2 | I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 11d162d | One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 91a1137 | The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating I love Italy. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c743558 | Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 767d5ee | The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution). | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d088c3b | The Hopi Indians thought that the world's religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4535975 | When the dust has settled years later, we might ask ourselves, "What was I thinking?" and the answer is usually: You weren't. Psychologists call that state of deluded madness "narcissistic love." I call it "my twenties." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| de9cd78 | So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are correct, but in only one respect - only if they happen to be talking about Judaism. Christianity simply does not share that deep and consistent historical reverence toward matrimony. Lately it has, yes- but not originally. For the first thousand or so years of Christi.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 55e5d85 | it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you ARE lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered a few feet off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6434a83 | only those who live in the wilderness can recognize the central truth of existence, which is that death lives right beside us at all times, as close and as relevant as life itself, and that this reality is nothing to fear but is a sacred truth to be praised. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 634e121 | He and I had been talking about jazz (which is to say that he had been talking about jazz, and I had been listening to him talk about jazz, because that is how you talk to a man about jazz)... | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| db48167 | the clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 994b549 | You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.")" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| eab0ff5 | Anyway, at some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ac05620 | I believe we are all transient," she began. She thought for awhile and added, "I believe that we are half-blind and full of errors. I believe that we understand very little, and what we do understand is mostly wrong. I believe that life cannot be survived - that is evident! - but if one is lucky, life can be endured for quite a long while. If one is both lucky and stubborn, life can sometimes even be enjoyed." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 269b82d | kntu 'wdu ldhhb l~ Sqly@ bsbb mqlh Gwth :"mn dwn rw'y@ Sqly@ , l ymkn llmr 'n ykwn fkr@ wDH@ `n yTly "." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bc1817e | I happen to believe we are all walking repositories of buried treasure. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8f0d876 | I've had to keep defining and defending myself as a writer every single day of my adult life -- constantly reminding and re-reminding my soul and the cosmos that I'm very serious about the business of creative living, and that I will never stop creating, no matter what the outcome, and no matter how deep my anxieties and insecurities may be. | creative-process writing | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 232493f | We must understand the need for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism. No matter how many hours you spend to render something flawless, somebody will always be able to find fault with it. | perfectionism | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| b4d08d6 | The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment. Different schools of thought over the centuries have found different explanation for man's apparently inherently flawed state. Taoists call it imbalance, Buddism calls it ignorance, Islam blames our misery on rebellion against God, and the Judeo-Christian tradit.. | eat-pray-love elizabeth-gilbert epictetus philosophy yogic-path | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 66a757c | People will tell you not to waste your youth having too much fun, but they're wrong. Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it. So do the right thing with your youth, Vivian--squander it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2991ca8 | Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody. | faith loneliness solitude | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| ce2f9b8 | Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 704b476 | I love you enormously. I'm spending a little time away from you--quite absurd and contingent. I would so like to see you, my stubborn little thing, and tell you my stories and hold your hand. You are my love, you good little being. Far from you I measure the nothingness of the flesh, and I am not having much fun. | Jean-Paul Sartreartre | ||
| d510684 | Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called "the sex," by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex -- absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute -- she is the Other." | gender philosophy | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 7c6ebaf | Nul n'est plus arrogant a l'egard des femmes, agressif ou dedaigneux, qu'un homme inquiet de sa virilite. | Simone de Beauvoir |