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689805a What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself. home svidrigailov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3c44965 'yh lsyd lkrym, lys lfqr rdhyl@, wl ldmn `l~ lskr fDyl@, 'n '`rf dhlk 'yDan. wlkn lbw's rdhyl@ 'yh lsyd lkrym, lbw's rdhyl@. ystTy` lmr fy lfqr 'n yZl mHfZan `l~ nbl `wTfh lfTry@, 'm fy lbw's fl ystTy` dhlk ywman, wm mn 'Hd ystTy`h qT. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2d6b4c1 One day is enough for a man to know all happiness. My dear ones, why do we quarrel, try to outshine each other and keep grudges against each other? Let's go straight into the garden, walk and play there, love, appreciate each other and glorify life. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0539147 What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example? Fyodor Dostoyevsky
e07a4fd Dear Nastenka, I know I describe splendidly, but, excuse me, I don't know how else to do it. At this moment, dear Nastenka, at this moment I am like the spirit of King Solomon when, after lying a thousand years under seven seals in his urn, those seven seals were at last taken off. At this moment, Nastenka, when we have met at last after such a long separation - for I have known you for ages, Nastenka, because I have been looking for some o.. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9bce449 lwq` 'nny sry` lt'dhy,'n '`rf hdh.ny sry` lt'dhy bGbw@, wbblh@ .. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2797828 Fierce and solitary he awaited death, mistrustful and hostile to all Fyodor Dostoyevsky
32201a1 Nastasha Filippovna,' said Myshkin softly and as it were with compassion, 'I told you just now that I would take your consent as an honor, and that you are doing me an honor, not I you. You smiled at those words, and I heard people laughing about us. I may have expressed myself very absurdly and have been absurd myself, but I thought all the time that I... understood the meaning of honor, and I am sure I spoke the truth. You wanted to ruin .. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3a0081f Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn? Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3f1fddb I heard exactly the same thing, a long time ago to be sure, from a doctor," the elder remarked. "He was then an old man, and unquestionably intelligent. He spoke just as frankly as you, humorously, but with a sorrowful humor. 'I love mankind,' he said, 'but I am amazed at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular, that is, individually, as separate persons. In my dreams,' he said, 'I often went so far .. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
30b5369 The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6d0706c It ended by my almost believing (perhaps actually believing) that this was perhaps my normal condition. But at first, in the beginning, what agonies I endured in that struggle! I did not believe it was the same with other people, and all my life I hid this fact about myself as a secret. I was ashamed (even now, perhaps, I am ashamed): I got to the point of feeling a sort of secret abnormal, despicable enjoyment in returning home to my corne.. agony depression despair fatalism hopelessness inevitabilities shame struggle Fyodor Dostoyevsky
31cbcb7 Through children the soul is healed... Fyodor Dostoyevsky
d33d263 Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht. pirates pleasure red-inn Honoré de Balzac
3498a43 I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air flying humour Jen Lancaster
3ad9691 There was a law against Luke. Margaret Peterson Haddix
0be4885 Knowledge isn't evil, in and of itself. It's what people choose to do with their knowledge that makes the difference. I think it matters what you want knowledge . And what you're willing to sacrifice to get it. wisdom Margaret Peterson Haddix
accc7bc But Mother, I don't want to go. It's just that...I have to. I can't spend the rest of my life hiding in the attic. [...] I don't want to be a burden[...]I want to do something with my life. Figure out ways to help other third kids. Make--make a difference in the world. distopia fiction science-fiction Margaret Peterson Haddix
697ea7c A man will be beloved if, possessed with great power, he still does not make himself feared. Paramahansa Yogananda
d531fcb Hay personas que tratan de ser altas cortando la cabeza a los demas Sri Yukteswar Paramahansa Yogananda
4247807 The master never counseled slavish belief. 'Words are only shells,' he said. 'Win conviction of God's presence through your own joyous contact in meditation. Paramahansa Yogananda
ee90726 No man can be a good bishop if he loves his title but not his task. Augustine of Hippo
0def4fa My weight is my love. Augustine of Hippo
a1ecc2e I heard Your voice from on high. "I am the food of the fully grown. Grow and you will feed on me. And you will not change Me into you, like the food of flesh eats. But you will be changed into Me." St. Augustine of Hippo
1479d40 I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You oh God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter. sin wickedness St. Augustine of Hippo
d73b131 Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them. Augustine of Hippo
9787ac6 Some things are to be enjoyed, others to be used, and there are others to be enjoyed and used. Augustine of Hippo
714e1c5 He was beautiful when he sat alone, he was like me, he had wide lapels, he was holding the mug in the hardest possible way so that his fingers were all twisted but still long and beautiful, he didn't like to sit alone all the time, but this time, I swear, he didn't care on way or the other. I'll tell you why I like to sit alone, because I'm a sadist, that's why we like to sit alone, because we're the sadists who like to sit alone. He sat al.. Leonard Cohen
e105f41 out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid. Daniel Goleman
0815927 People with well-developed emotional skills are also more likely to be content and effective in their lives, mastering the habits of mind that foster their own productivity; people who cannot marshal some control over their emotional life fight inner battles that sabotage their ability for focused work and clear thought. Daniel Goleman
76eadc4 In the original form of the word, to worry someone else was to harass, strangle, or choke them. Likewise, to worry oneself is a form of self-harassment. To give it less of a role in our lives, we must understand what it really it is. Worry is the fear we manufacture--it is not authentic. If you choose to worry about something, have at it, but do so knowing it's a choice. Most often, we worry because it provides some secondary reward. There .. Gavin de Becker
8276c68 From the vantage point of the brain, doing well in school and at work involves one and the same state, the brain's sweet spot for performance. The biology of anxiety casts us out of that zone for excellence. "Banish fear" was a slogan of the late quality-control guru W. Edwards Deming. He saw that fear froze a workplace: workers were reluctant to speak up, to share new ideas, or to coordinate well, let alone to improve the quality of their .. Daniel Goleman
00acdda Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings--anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness--is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit. Daniel Goleman
fc1e6f1 Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival. Daniel Goleman
714a1f5 To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say religion theology Walter Kaufmann
782121b In all honesty, I'd enjoyed the horse ride more than the man ride. At least the horse had been a stallion. Looking back, my lab TA was more like a Shetland pony--hairy and small. Penny Reid
259d821 Nico flinched and pain flickered within his green eyes. He struck the wall next to my head, causing me to jump. "I don't want to be fair! I'm not interested in being nice! You're right. I'm playing games with you and I'm playing dirty because I want you, I you, to be with you, to hear your voice, your laugh, to hold you, to touch you . . ." Penny Reid
9e6f6c1 It's nice to hear your voice...?" The statement came out sounding like a question, as though I were playing jeopardy and I'd chosen my category- 'I'll take 'Charming Chit Chat' for $200, Alex' and behind the $200 read: 'This is what you say to the hot guy- you abandoned- when he returns after you inexplicably leave him and his private jet in Las Vegas after having amazing and multiple occurrences of the hot sex." Penny Reid
cb4301c I was planning to sort my comic books based on level of second wave feminist influence." "As opposed to first wave?" "Yes, well, Susan B. Anthony laid the foundation for those who have come after. It's all really interrelated but she didn't have direct influence over late twentieth century comics." Penny Reid
11d4b81 Even though you don't feel calm doesn't mean you can't be calm. Penny Reid
bba53d9 Your birthday gift to me is to place me in the middle of an art heist so that I can taser someone?" He nodded, smiling, looking very proud. "Thank you, Alex. I mean it. I...I just love you so much." Penny Reid
d6d6ca8 There will be no bananas!" "There will be entire tropical rainforests of bananas! And coconuts!" I gestured to my breasts. "And, hopefully, bananas rubbing against coconuts." Penny Reid
1046618 worry is an emotional state that I abhor. It tends to be self-absorbed and short-sighted, and holds no purpose other than to waste energy and distract the mind from what actually matters. Penny Reid
9e98c83 You don't know love?" "No." "But you're so certain that this is it, that what we have--what we're doing--that this is us in love?" "Yes." "Why?" "Because it's what love should be." Penny Reid