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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cf18bba | Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. | Epictetus | ||
| 421c39d | To admonish is better than to reproach for admonition is mild and friendly, but reproach is harsh and insulting; and admonition corrects those who are doing wrong, but reproach only convicts them. | correction reproach | Epictetus | |
| 6a209f8 | What is death? A "tragic mask." Turn it and examine it. See, it does not bite. The poor body must be separated from the spirit either now or later, as it was separated from it before. Why, then, are you troubled, if it be separated now? for if it is not separated now, it will be separated afterward. Why? That the period of the universe may be completed, for it has need of the present, and of the future, and of the past. What is pain? A mask.. | Epictetus | ||
| eec4712 | For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred! | Epictetus | ||
| 4979c07 | Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words. | Epictetus | ||
| 16305b7 | Don't seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you'll have a calm and happy life. | Epictetus | ||
| 8c150fe | If you choose, you are free; if you choose, you need blame no man--accuse no man. All things will be at once according to your mind and according to the Mind of God. | Epictetus | ||
| bfd068e | Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another. | Epictetus | ||
| 1abcd68 | What we desire makes us vulnerable. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 23d5ceb | Adopt new habits yourself: consolidate your principles by putting them into practice. | Epictetus | ||
| aceca16 | Tell yourself what you want to be, then act your part accordingly. | Epictetus | ||
| f5e3393 | Free is the person who lives as he wishes and cannot be coerced, impeded or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires and never has to experience what he would rather avoid. | Epictetus | ||
| 8d4e0af | You should be especially careful when associating with one of your former friends or acquaintances not to sink to their level; otherwise you will lose yourself. If you are troubled by the idea that 'He'll think I'm boring and won't treat me the way he used to,' remember that everything comes at a price. It isn't possible to change your behavior and still be the same person you were before. | Epictetus | ||
| 0eb87e3 | We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life. | Epictetus | ||
| 3c7f6c1 | Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment. | Epictetus | ||
| d205017 | So don't make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed. | Epictetus | ||
| 772a769 | Be happy when you find that doctrines you have learned and analysed are being tested by real events. If you've succeeded in removing or reducing the tendency to be mean and critical, or thoughtless, or foul-mouthed, or careless, or nonchalant; if old interests no longer engage you, at least not to the same extent; then every day can be a feast day - today because you acquitted yourself well in one set of circumstances, tomorrow because of a.. | Epictetus | ||
| 845e3f9 | Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily? | the-fruit-of-the-mind | Epictetus | |
| 9700974 | If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you'll find fault with no one, you'll cast blame on no one, and everything that comes about will do so in accordance with your own will and that of God. | Epictetus | ||
| d4d007a | When then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as Plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true. | Epictetus | ||
| 2247c00 | When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval. | Epictetus | ||
| e7f5ecd | Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?" "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| a5f50a5 | Life's too short to worry about what other people think,'' Mom said.''Anyway, they should accept us for who we are. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 6fa6437 | I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we'd have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else. | wanting | Jeannette Walls | |
| 73558b8 | You were free to choose enslavement, but the choice was a free one only if you knew what your alternatives were. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| eafdae1 | One day we heard on the radio that a woman in the suburbs had seen a mountain lion behind her house and had called the police, who shot the animal. Dad got so angry he put his fist through a wall. "That mountain lion had as much right to his life as that sour old biddy does to hers," he said. "You can't kill something just because it's wild." | peta | Jeannette Walls | |
| 470c0d5 | How many places have we lived?" I asked Lori. "That depends on what you mean by 'lived', "she said. "If you spend one in some town, did you live there? What about two nights? Or a whole week? " I thought. "If you unpack all your things," I said. We counted eleven placed we had lived, then we lost track. We couldn't remember the names of some of the towns or what the houses we had lived in looked like. Mostly, I remember the inside of car.. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 4ed3441 | She knew how to get by on next to nothing. pg. 21 | Jeannette Walls | ||
| a127e08 | The road was called Agnes weeps, after the town's first schoolteacher, who had burst into tears when she saw how plunging and twisting the road was and realized how remote the town must be. But from the first moment I laid eyes on it, I loved that road. I thought of it as a winding staircase taking me out of the traffic jams, news bulletins, bureaucrats, air-raid sirens and locked doors of city life. Jim said we should rename the road Lilly.. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 747cdf8 | Dad was on the porch, pacing back and forth in that uneven stride he had on account of having a gimp leg. When he saw, he let out a yelp of delight and started hobbling down the steps towards us. Mom came running out of the house. She sank down on her knees, clasped her hands in front of her, and started praying up to the heavens, thanking the Lord for delivering her children from the flood. It was she who had saved us, she declared, by sta.. | children flash-flood guardian-angel love mother natural-disaster parents religion | Jeannette Walls | |
| 59f9e28 | As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had. | life love sadness | Jeannette Walls | |
| 561b985 | Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. "Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. "Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering." | family glass-castle jeannette-walls | Jeannette Walls | |
| 2f4d4ec | It was your inner spirit and not your outward appearance that mattered, | Jeannette Walls | ||
| e7da1d5 | He didn't ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 9683fd0 | My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| bfd1ea2 | I've met men I would trust in the mouth of hell. Byrne or Douglas. I would trust them to breathe for me, to pump my blood with their hearts." "Did you love them best? Would they be the ones you'd choose?" "To die with? No. The one time I've felt what you describe was with a woman." "A lover, you mean?" said Jack. "Not your own flesh and blood?" "I think she was my own flesh and blood. I truly believe she was." | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| ecbfd0b | It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind, then perhaps the isolated deeds of virtue at which people marveled in later life were not really isolated at all; perhaps they were the natural continuation of the innocent goodness that all people brought into the world at their birth. If this was true, then his fellow-human beings were not the rough, flawed creatures that mos.. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 646d55c | Grief is a peculiar emotion. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 1492977 | She was so beautiful I had to move away. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| f458230 | I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| aea19ba | There is an arch supported by four vast columns. Etched over hundreds and hundreds of yards of stone, furlongs of stone, there are names: "Who are these, these? The men who died in this battle?" "No. The lost, the ones they did not find. The others are in the cemeteries." "These are just the ... the unfound." When she could speak again. From the whole war?" The man shook his head. "Just these fields." Elizabeth sat on the steps. "No one to.. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 01a3019 | I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me. | mistakes mistakes-we-make | Mary Alice Monroe | |
| f776152 | She thought how sharp words could sting when they held the truth. | mary alice monroe | ||
| 1b6d740 | If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at. | brad-thor fiction humor life men scot-harvath thriller | Brad Thor |