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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 67196b7 | And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning? | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 7ebf00c | The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature. | literature | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 94793cc | It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 80567a7 | How did you expect me to live without you? Once you've known happiness it's impossible to get used to not having it. I was desperate! I thought I should die! I'll tell you all about it, you'll see... And you-- you stayed away from me!' He had been carefully avoiding her for the past three years, out of that natural cowardice that characterises the stronger sex; and Emma went on, moving her head in winsome little gestures, more affectionate .. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 7f38b17 | Era la enamorada de todas las novelas, la heroina de todos los dramas, la vaga "ella" de todos los libros de versos." | francia literatura madame-bovary realismo | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 2bc9cda | Prima di sposarsi, Emma aveva creduto di essere innamorata, ma la felicita che avrebbe dovuto nascere da questo amore non esisteva, ed ella pensava ormai di essersi sbagliata. Cercava ora di capire cosa volessero dire realmente le parole felicita, passione, ebbrezza, che le erano sembrate cosi belle nei libri. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 91d5b34 | Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes. | characters fiction imagination madame-bovary reading reading-experience | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 6b206cd | Les coeurs des femmes sont comme ces petits meubles a secret, pleins de tiroirs emboites les uns dans les autres ; on se donne du mal, on se casse les ongles, et on trouve au fond quelque fleur dessechee, des brins de poussiere - ou le vide ! | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 27bb2d4 | She only wished to lean on something more solid than love. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 354770c | This was how they wished they had been: each was creating an ideal into which he was now fitting his past life. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| d7b03b9 | Future joys are like tropical shores; like a fragrant breeze, they extend their innate softness to the immense inland world of past experience, and we are lulled by this intoxication into forgetting the unseen horizons beyond. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 1a0e4d3 | It's a Secret of Adulthood: I can't make people change, but when I change, others may change; and when others change, I may change. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 9a201b7 | As I turned the key and pushed open the front door, as I crossed the threshold, I thought how breathtaking, how fleeting, how precious was my ordinary day Now is now. Here is my treasure. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 5c20b66 | I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations. | personal-growth self-actualization | Gretchen Rubin | |
| 610fd17 | I'm not tempted by things I've decided are off-limits, but once I've started something, I have trouble stopping. If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| d954053 | I have an idea of who I wish I were, and that obscures my understanding of who I actually am. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| a777394 | Happy people generally are more forgiving, helpful, and charitable, have better self-control, and are more tolerant of frustration than unhappy people, while unhappy people are more often withdrawn, defensive, antagonistic, and self-absorbed. Oscar Wilde observed, "One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy." | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 2c3fee2 | Both money and health contribute to happiness mostly in the negative; the lack of them brings much more unhappiness than possessing them brings happiness. p 169 | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 5889624 | With habits, we don't make decisions, we don't use self-control, we just do the thing we want ourselves to do--or that we don't want to do. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 5958dda | six obvious ways to make an activity less convenient: * Increase the amount of physical or mental energy required (leave the cell phone in another room, ban smoking inside or near a building). * Hide any cues (put the video game controller on a high shelf). * Delay it (read email only after 11:00 a.m.). * Engage in an incompatible activity (to avoid snacking, do a puzzle). * Raise the cost (one study showed that people at high risk for.. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 5f91085 | That was the first important discovery I made about Betty: she was desperately isolated, and she survived this isolation only by virtue of the sustaining myth that her intimate life was being lived elsewhere. Her friends, her circle of acquaintances, were not here, but elsewhere, in New York, in Texas, in the past. In fact, everything of importance was elsewhere. It was at this time that I first began to suspect that for Betty there was no .. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 9d88860 | the fear of conflict is almost always a sign of problems. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| f3d71ba | When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| e5b3416 | Some people are hard to hold accountable because they are so helpful. Others because they get defensive. Others because they are intimidating. I don't think it's easy to hold anyone accountable, not even your own kids | team teamwork | Patrick Lencioni | |
| c7d746a | He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 4f34c8e | Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality. | George Lakoff | ||
| cb02461 | Here was the old Professor Emerson, simmering beneath Gabriel's chastened exterior. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 00322b8 | but when a person is upset, old patterns of behavior emerge. It's true for me too, except my coping mechanisms are different | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| b5c4907 | Pero por un instante, fue real. La chispa seguia viva. Cuando me beso y me acaricio, la electricidad seguia estando alli. Tiene que haberla sentido el tambien. Es imposible que haya existido solo en mi cabeza. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 8bf5631 | Julia no queria que la follaran como a un animal. Queria ser amada. Ese era el tipo de sentimiento que deseaba desesperadamente, aunque en el fondo no se creia merecedora de el. Queria ser la musa de alguien. Queria ser venerada y adorada en cuerpo y alma. Queria ser la Beatriz de un Dante apuesto y noble y habitar con el para siempre en el Paraiso. Queria vivir una vida que rivalizara con la belleza de las ilustraciones de Botticelli. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| a42c07f | Patience was a virtue he possessed in abundance. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 3ba5893 | You're an emotional rollercoaster, and I wanted to climb off. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 331f836 | No entiendes la comparacion? Tu eres mi agua Perrier. --Se dejo caer un poco mas sobre ella--. Hacer el amor contigo es lo unico que sacia mi sed. ?Por que iba a cambiarlo por toda el agua del mar? --Gabriel le presiono las caderas con las suyas--. Ella no puede ofrecerme nada que me interese. --Bajo la cara hasta que sus narices se rozaron--. Y tu eres preciosa. Cada parte de tu cuerpo es una obra de arte, desde la cabeza hasta los dedos d.. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| c2742f2 | Los hombres tienen el ego mas fragil que una cascara de huevo. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 320cea5 | Sex is properly understood to be not only physical, but spiritual--an ecstatic union of two bodies and two souls, meant to mimic the joy and ecstasy of union with the Divine in Paradise. Two bodies joined together in pleasure. Two souls joined through the connection between two bodies and the whole-hearted, enthusiastic, selfless giving of the entire self. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| d23b79a | Certainly, he was the only one in the room who'd actually engaged Dante in direct conversation and informed the Poet he was an ass. | humour | Sylvain Reynard | |
| 58a91d8 | We try to touch the stars, but we always fall back to earth. | julianne the-prince | Sylvain Reynard | |
| f0a5b3f | Chivalry in academia is dead. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 52914f0 | Julianne, we will never be equals. You are my better. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| bcdd734 | The old, endless, approachable and always answering Sorrow," says my father Lucifer. "For who calls on me never goes unanswered. Only prayers to God go without answers." -- | religion | Robert Nye | |
| 5e9a0dd | Only the very stupid or the very deprived can any longer help knowing that the documents of civilization have been written in blood and tears, blood and tears no less real for being very remote. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| b7fe65f | The essence of the evening was captured by a question from the audience. Someone asked: "What would it take to change your worldview?" My answer was simple: Any single piece of evidence. If we found a fossilized animal trying to swim between the layers of rock in the Grand Canyon, if we found a process by which a new huge fraction of a radioactive material's neutrons could become protons in some heretofore fantastically short period of time.. | Bill Nye | ||
| 62f9b3b | To be successful as a living thing, you have to have offspring, who have offspring, who have offspring. Rest assured, your family did, or you wouldn't be here. As troubling as it may seem, your parents had sex--at least once. If you have brothers and sisters, more than once ... One shudders to think of it. | Bill Nye | ||
| 0fca70f | More than five hundred people have flown in space and twelve people have walked on the moon, but only three humans in history have been to the bottom of the ocean. | Bill Nye |