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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 96ffaa6 | Madame de Nucingen was already there, dressed with the deliberate aim of appealing to all eyes, knowing that thereby she would seem even more attractive to Eugene. | manipulation | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 3b7215c | Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffocating ourselves a wee bit?' he asked, placing a hand on the top of her corset. 'A bit of a crush in the vestibule, here, Mamma! If we start crying, there'll be an explosion. Never mind, I'll be there to collect the bits--just like an antiquary.' 'Now, there's the language of true French gallantry,' murmured Madame Vauquer in an aside to Madam.. | comedy good-natured humor mockery obliviousness wit | Honoré de Balzac | |
| c570417 | Karsilik gormemis duygular bazi ruhlarda kin haline gelir, bende ise oyle olmadi; yogunlasti bu duygular icimde, bir yer etti kendine, sonra da oradan hayatima fiskirdi. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 7cecfbf | In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank. | honesty treachery | Honoré de Balzac | |
| f223a7d | Bor'ba imeet svoiu prelest'. Borot'sia - znachit zhit', pust' bor'ba prinosit gore, pust' ona ranit, - vse luchshe, chem besprosvetnyi mrak otvrashcheniia, iad prezritel'noi zamknutosti, kholod tekh, kto otreksia ot bor'by, chem smert' serdtsa, kotoraia zovetsia ravnodushiem. | indifference | Honoré de Balzac | |
| a93322f | Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes. | hope hopelessnes love | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 3fc7fa7 | Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred. | emotions hatred heart love | Honoré de Balzac | |
| aa37b27 | Inclinarea spre lene - desfraul sufletelor poetice. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 39badc9 | Il existe je ne sais quoi de grand et d'epouvantable dans le suicide. Les chutes d'une multitude de gens sont sans danger, comme celles des enfants qui tombent de trop bas pour se blesser; mais quand un grand homme se brise, il doit venir de bien haut, s'etre eleve jusqu'aux cieux, avoir entrevu quelque paradis inaccessible. Implacables doivent etre les ouragans qui le forcent a demander la paix de l'ame a la bouche d'un pistolet... Chaque .. | poesie suicide | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 184d017 | Les souffrances morales, aupres desquelles palissent les douleurs physiques, excitent cependant moins de pitie, parce-qu'on ne les voit point. | Balzac Honoré de | ||
| 2acb6a0 | I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was the first to make the leap from religious art to secular. That couldn't have been a small feat. Who was brave enough to say, " You know what? Enough of Jesus. I'mma paint me this here bowl of fruit and then I'mma paint my girlfriend... naked!" | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 014f7ab | Everyday I feel more and more like a full-fledged adult. Even though it was (metaphorically) only yesterday I was sloshing in the door at four a.m. after Dollar Beer Night, I find myself with a mortgage, four types of insurance, and a non-laundry-quarter-based retirement fund. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 9b07864 | I mean, six years ago my electricity's being cut off and my car's getting repossessed and I'm being evicted from my apartment, and now I'm all "Yeah, havin' dinner with Rudy in the Hamptons, what of it?" | Jen Lancaster | ||
| bb40365 | If you're in the midst of a midlife crisis, you could buy a convertible, have an affair, or upgrade your cup size. But you'll probably be happiest if you save a dog's life. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 0b37e51 | You know why I love HGTV? It's not just that I get a peek into other people's lives. It's that everyone's always thrilled with the end result, whether they're redecorating an unfortunate room, selling a house, or cleaning up another contractor's mess. I love for a happy ending, and HGTV is perpetually upbeat and optimistic. The shows are all about problem solving, not drama creating. | hgtv | Jen Lancaster | |
| b657626 | What's funny is the act of cleaning out my desk takes an hour, yet I've been dreading it for so many damn years. How much time have I wasted in fretting about organizing this instead of actually organizing? I kind of don't want to know. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 771486e | In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand stated that there's no such thing as real altruism. She espoused the principle of ethical egotism, meaning that a person's moral obligation is to promote their own welfare. Translation? I still have the musical sensibilities of a teenage girl and I kind of want to see a shitty pop concert in the guise of doing something nice for my pal's kid, so I need to find a way to make it happen. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 86daa53 | I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| 97937a3 | Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands. | da-vinci imagination | Sarah Dunant | |
| 8816002 | angles from their former lofty positions in the sky. Their absence made everything look different, like a fresh haircut exposing a band of untanned skin on a forehead. Even from deep inside the kitchen, Luke could tell the trees were missing because everything was brighter, more open. Scarier. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 55dce21 | smashed fly or the dead pig, gone stiff in the sun. It made his stomach feel funny even trying. "I don't think it's fair we've got to do Luke's chores now," Luke's other brother," | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 8a67b02 | Now, who-- | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| eb8ddbf | Winning isn't everything," Eisenhower said faintly. "Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better." | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 6367107 | I wouldn't even let your dad talk about . . . | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 03c18f6 | I wasn't asking anything about God," Jonah complained. "Yeah, you kind of were," JB said. "If there is fate, who else would control it?" | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| b486d4b | I have been thinking--" He chuckled. "Always a dangerous thing for a woman to do," he said." | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 3608b32 | I used to think that the topic of positive psychology was happiness, that the gold standard for measuring happiness was life satisfaction, and that the goal of positive psychology was to increase life satisfaction. I now think that the topic of positive psychology is well-being, that the gold standard for measuring well-being is flourishing, and that the goal of positive psychology is to increase flourishing. This theory, which I call well-.. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 482b320 | Excavations at Ai Khanoum on the northern border of modern Afghanistan have produced great quantities of Greek inscriptions and even the remnants of a philosophical treatise originally on papyrus. One of the most interesting is the base of a dedication by one Klearchos, perhaps the known student of Aristotle, that records his bringing to this new Greek city, Alexandria on the Oxus, the traditional maxims from the shrine of Apollo at Delphi .. | Robin Lane Fox | ||
| 8788246 | What is going on in our minds, then, that we should be more highly delighted at finding cherished objects, or having them restored to us, than if we had always kept them safe? | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 4b2aed1 | So it falls out that in this world, in evil days like these, the Church walks onward like a wayfarer stricken by the world's hostility, but comforted by the mercy of God. Nor does this state of affairs date only from the days of Christ's and His Apostles' presence on earth. It was never any different from the days when the first just man, Abel, was slain by his ungodly brother. So shall it be until this world is no more. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| a2307b5 | What did it profit that I read the greatest human ideas of the so-called "liberal arts" in the books I got hold of. My thinking was enslaved to corrupt desires, so what difference did it make that I could read and understand these books? I delighted in learning, but I had no divine context for what my mind picked up. I had no foundation to discern what is true or certain. I was standing with my back to the light, so that the things that sho.. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 8fec4f9 | Clearly, it is a happier lot to be the slave of a man than of a lust: | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 37b2b1b | As the flattery of friends corrupts, so often do the taunts of enemies instruct. | flattery-of-friends | Saint Augustine of Hippo | |
| 5f0a3bd | We transmit and catch moods from each other in what amounts to a subterranean economy of the psyche in which some encounters are toxic, some nourishing. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| d036859 | when we hope to be a You, being treated like an It, as though we do not matter, carries a particularly harsh sting. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 8f52b2b | The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant," Albert Einstein once said. "We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 8899cf1 | goal-directed self-imposed delay of gratification" is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup. His finding underscores the role of emotional intelligence as a meta-ability, determining how well or how poorly people are able to use their other mental capacities." -- | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 836184a | The guiding visionary behind Project Spectrum is Howard Gardner, a psychologist at the Harvard School of Education.7 "The time has come," Gardner told me, "to broaden our notion of the spectrum of talents. The single most important contribution education can make to a child's development is to help him toward a field where his talents best suit him, where he will be satisfied and competent. We've completely lost sight of that. Instead we su.. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| ba8047c | Once when I was about 13, in an angry fit, I walked out of the house vowing I would never return. It was a beautiful summer day, and I walked far along lovely lanes, till gradually the stillness and beauty calmed and soothed me, and after some hours I returned repentant and almost melted. Since then when I am angry, I do this if I can, and find it the best cure. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| bf819fa | Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most." -- Mark Twain ~Jethro~" | Penny Reid | ||
| e8d4f65 | I may be broken, but all my pieces are yours. | Penny Reid | ||
| 897ee71 | each day after class lets out,each morning before it begins, i sit at the school piano and make my hands work. in spite of the pain, in spite of the stiffness and scars. i make my hands play piano.i have practiced my best piece over and over till my arms throb. | Karen Hesse | ||
| 2a16272 | The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives. | Erin McKean | ||
| ca96ad4 | Recognition is the most powerful currency you have, and it costs you nothing, | James M. Kouzes |