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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2f64597 | My soul has been haunted by something like those forgotten melodies that come back to us at twilight, during those slow hours in which memory, like a ghost among ruins, stalks our thoughts. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| ff4ddfe | Research--and my own experience--suggests that the less we indulge in something, the less we want it. When we believe that a craving will remain unsatisfied, it may diminish; cravings are more provoked by possibility than by denial. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 0f26f59 | When it comes to fake food, I'm like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, "Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult." In other words, I can give something up altogether, but I can't indulge occasionally." | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| ae42f6a | There is no love; there are only proofs of love." Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my actions." | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 367154d | When we do stumble, it's important not to judge ourselves harshly. Although some people assume that strong feelings of guilt or shame act as safeguards to help people stick to good habits, the opposite is true. People who feel less guilt and who show compassion toward themselves in the face of failure are better able to regain self-control, while people who feel deeply guilty and full of self-blame struggle more. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 4336d2f | I have an idea of who I wish I were, and that obscures my understanding of who I actually am. Sometimes I pretend even to myself to enjoy activities that I don't really enjoy, such as shopping, or to be interested in subjects that don't much interest me, such as foreign policy. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| e8f4116 | Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act. | feelings happiness | Gretchen Rubin | |
| fa2d62a | I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 961f4c7 | Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness; a review of research by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that those who aid the causes they value tend to be happier and in better health. They show fewer signs of physical and mental aging. And it's not just that helpful people also tend to be healthier and happier; helping others causes happiness. "Be selfless, if only for .. | health volunteer volunteering volunteerism | Gretchen Rubin | |
| e4504e9 | Another study suggested that getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person's happiness than getting a $60,000 raise. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| d4a5627 | The only way for the leader of a team to create a safe environment for his team members to be vulnerable is by stepping up and doing something that feels unsafe and uncomfortable first. By getting naked before anyone else, by taking the risk of making himself vulnerable with no guarantee that other members of the team will respond in kind, a leader demonstrates an extraordinary level of selflessness and dedication to the team. And that give.. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 354faeb | If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 5b39aa2 | the fundamental attribution error is the tendency of human beings to attribute the negative or frustrating behaviors of their colleagues to their intentions and personalities, while attributing their own negative or frustrating behaviors to environmental factors. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 275720b | Noah released the raven and the raven returned. If I were able to hope, I'd hope you would return to me. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 8750985 | How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we're shown? | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 3b45fdb | We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do. | conceptualization embodied-mind embodiment limits situated-cognition | George Lakoff | |
| 07a93a8 | Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature. | George Lakoff | ||
| 008a465 | Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors. | irony metaphors metaphysics nature-of-reason nature-of-theory | George Lakoff | |
| 4b348df | Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability to learn what our unconscious conceptual systems are like and how our cognitive unconscious functions. If we do not realize that most of our thought is unconscious and that we think metaphorically, we will indeed be slaves to the cognitive unconscious. Paradoxically, the assumption that we have a radically autonomous rationality as traditional.. | cognitive-science embodied-mind freedom illusion limitation metaphor reason self-knowledge thought | George Lakoff | |
| 27d8fde | I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs. | Bill Nye | ||
| 0e37c72 | While the everlasting pleasure, that did full On Beatrice shine, with second view From her fair countenance my gladden'd soul Contented; vanquishing me with a beam Of her soft smile, she spake: "Turn thee, and list. These eyes are not thy only Paradise." | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 7ffbee9 | Wisdom is earned, not given | Dante Alighieri | ||
| c5ff5cd | And so we made our way across that heap of stones, which often moved beneath my feet because my weight was somewhat strange for them. | substantive-humor | Dante Alighieri | |
| 19228a0 | Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 60c1ad9 | That precious fruit which all men eagerly go searching for on many different boughs will give,today, peace to your hungry soul. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 56433e5 | In his , Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such ill use of him: clear proof that even in the days of Dante one praised the ancients without knowing why. This respect for poets one does not understand and yet wishes to equal is the source of the bad writing in our literature. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| 747784f | Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 7eddafd | High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy. | love mercy | Dante Alighieri | |
| d9c00a9 | God's greatest gift to man In all the bounty He was moved to make Throughout creation-the one gift the most Close to his goodness and the one He calls Most precious-is free will. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 294e3cf | Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft, Why fall ye thus before a little wind? | humanity | Dante Alighieri | |
| 4b28e56 | I will always be conscious of your absence. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 5279620 | Mr. Emerson watched, almost breathless, as she swirled the wine in her glass expertly, then lifted it so that she could examine it more closely in the candlelight. She brought the glass to her nose, closed her eyes, and sniffed. Then she placed the glass to her plump lips and tasted the wine, holding it in her mouth for a while before swallowing. She opened her eyes, smiled even more widely, and thanked Antonio for his precious gift. | gabriel-s-inferno sylvain-reynard wine | Sylvain Reynard | |
| 4716008 | Julia never asked herself why bad things happen to good people, for she already knew the answer: bad things happen t everyone. Not that this was an excuse or a justification for wronging another human being. Still, all humans had this shared experience- that of suffering. No human being left this world without shedding a tear,of feeling pain,or wading into the sea of sorrow. Why should her life be any different? Why should she expect specia.. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| dde9a80 | I don't deserve you. I know that. Consco i segni dell'antica fiamma. I felt it the first time I took your hand.The first time I kissed you. And it was all there last night- every feeling, every memory, every sensation I had before was there. It was real. Look at me and tell me it meant nothing to you, and I will let you go. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| fa973fb | I'll give you anything. My boy, my soul, take them. Take everything. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 6c95779 | He wore clothes to cover his nakedness, he drove a car, and he ate with a knife and a fork and a linen napkin. He was gainfully employed in a job that required intellectual ability and acuity. He controlled his sexual urges through various civilized means and would never take a woman against her will. Nevertheless, as he stared at Miss Mitchell and Paul, he realized that he was an animal. Something primitive. Something feral. And something .. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 1e23a5a | So drop the Mr.Rochester-Mr.Darcy-Heathcliff British stuck-uppity bullshit..."- Rachel to Gabriel" | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| cab2a0c | You're gorgeous, Gabriel. You always were, you know." "Nature's cruelty-- the fallen angel retains his beauty. But I'm ugly on the inside." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 5f96840 | Tengo tantas ganas de tenerte entre mis brazos que me duele. No puedo esperar a que llegue el momento de estar unido a ti en cuerpo y alma. Pero cuando vuelva a entrar en tu cuerpo, quiero que sepas que no te abandonare nunca mas. Que eres mia y yo soy tuyo para siempre. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 46a94ac | Siempre te querre, Julianne, me quieras tu o no. Eres mi cielo. Y mi infierno | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 95e83ff | El amor hace que lo veamos todo hermoso. | spanish | Sylvain Reynard | |
| 00a2675 | She wanted to be someone's muse--to be worshipped and adored, body and soul. She wanted to play Beatrice to a dashing and noble Dante and to inhabit Paradise with him forever. And to live a life that would rival the beauty of Botticelli's illustrations. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| f495b5e | I can't understand why everyone just doesn't want kindness. Life is painful enough. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 16efc47 | Dante era un poeta y Beatriz era su musa. La conocio cuando ella era muy joven y la amo a distancia toda la vida. Beatriz fue su guia en el Paraiso.- | Sylvain Reynard |