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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 54501d8 | a love for good books was one of the best safeguards a man could have, | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| e7e43c5 | I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them. | little-women louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| fe44082 | I planned to spend mine in new music," said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 7413bbb | What do you want?" and Rose looked up rather surprised. "I'd like to borrow some money. I shouldn't think of asking you, only Mac never has a cent since he's set up his old chemical shop, where he'll blow himself to bits some day and you and Uncle will have the fun of putting him together again," and Steve tried to look as if the idea amused him." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| f64da0d | D)espair never lives long in young hearts | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 023d4c7 | If she really had any doubt, the look in Dr. Alec's face banished it without a word, as he opened wide his arms and she ran into them, feeling that home was here. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 8585079 | V)irtue, like sunshine, works its own sweet miracles | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| c161c63 | Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst | Susan Cheever | ||
| 5a7debc | growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was sure that her whole life could be settled by one human creature, quite forgetting how wonderfully Providence trains us by disappointment, surprises us with unexpected success, and turns our seeming trials into blessing. | louisa-may-alcott youth | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 17780ca | he felt he could willingly give his life for them. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 80cb852 | Beth lay a minute thinking, and then said in her quiet way, 'I don't know how to express myself, and shouldn't try to anyone but you, because I can't speak out except to my Jo. I only meant to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you. I never made any plans about what I'd do when I grew up. I never thought of being married, as you all did. I couldn't seem to imagine myself anythin.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| c275c01 | If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that's all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you'll make it a better place. - Marmee | courage kindness little-women values | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 821707b | n lnsn mHkwm `lyh blHry@: mHkwm l'nh lm ykhlq dhth, whw Hr l'nh qd Sr msw'lan `n kl myf`l bmjrd 'n twjd fy l`lm. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 3fc2717 | lys hnk mst`mrwn SlHwn w'khrwn TlHwn, bl hnk mst`mrwn fHsb | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 76651c1 | His name was Jean-Paul Sartre. He looked at Descartes's statement "I think, therefore I am" very deeply and suddenly realized, in his own words, "The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks." What did he mean by that? When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. And it is that awareness that says "I am." If there were nothing but t.. | Eckhart Tolle | ||
| 7549a4b | Je ne suis rien que le regard qui te voit, que cette pensee incolore qui te pense. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| bf687d3 | L'enfer, c'est les autres [Hell is other people] | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| c61b879 | When she was in Djibouti and I was in Aden, and I used to go and see her for twenty-four hours, she managed to multiply the misunderstandings between us until there were exactly sixty minutes before I had to leave; sixty minutes, just long enough to make you feel the seconds passing one by one. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 63d29bd | All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| fc0ed5e | Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself. | lucifer-and-the-lord sartre thirst | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 8959718 | one cannot hate a man more than one can love him." The" -- | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| f178c6b | The self is who we truly are, but the persona or mask (the word comes from the Latin for an actor's mask) is the face we turn to the world in order to deal with it. A persona is absolutely necessary, but the problem is that we often become identified with it, to the detriment of our self, a dilemma that the existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre recognized in his notion of mauvaise foi, or "bad faith," when one becomes associated exclusiv.. | Gary Valentine Lachman | ||
| f7276d7 | I am free,' he said suddenly. And his joy changed, on the spot, to a crushing sense of anguish. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 8f1a5f1 | Hell is other people, said Jean-Paul Sartre. Don't take this the wrong way, but I think he means you. | Andy Miller | ||
| c7f197c | idea that you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you feel about it. Or, as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." | Eula Biss | ||
| c594671 | To be is to do' -- Socrates. 'To do is to be' -- Jean-Paul Sartre. 'Do be do be do' -- Frank Sinatra. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| c6f6d46 | Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 657db26 | Baslangic olmadigi gibi, son da yoktur. Bir kadin, bir dost, bir kent bir kerede terk edilemez. Hepsi birbirine benzer zaten. | sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| ed25403 | A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 078c27d | We have to deal with human reality as a being which is what it is not and which is not what it is. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| d2baaca | She is dearer to me than life. But her suffering comes from within, and only she can rid herself of it. For she is free. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 605c97f | But even though I felt her presence, I also felt the habitual fruitlessness of thinking about her. Her images, partly memories of her, partly memories of photos I had seen of her, yielded no new answers to old mysteries. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 0b89b26 | The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens th.. | balance humor spirituality | Jane Smiley | |
| 2731042 | Where is Alia?' she asked. 'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,' Paul said. 'She's killing enemy wounded... | Frank Herbert | ||
| 0c684d8 | What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." | self-discipline thought-life | Frank Herbert | |
| da7485d | Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 331df12 | To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. | Frank Herbert | ||
| c307ded | Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 21c1156 | I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him! | reality religion selfhood | Frank Herbert | |
| 6cd07d2 | Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. | Frank Herbert | ||
| b6fff35 | Religious institutions perpetuate a mortal master-servant relationship," Leto said. "They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices!" | Frank Herbert | ||
| 089851b | When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 05f2a3c | The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. -- | Frank Herbert | ||
| c7d4820 | We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses. | strength | Frank Herbert |