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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 61d5e79 | The house was heavy around him, the pressure of the past filling the rooms like odorless gas. | E. Annie Proulx (Author) | ||
| d921a02 | If a piece ofknotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awaken... then I believe a broken man can heal. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 9a41019 | They say that doing ten sums a day prevents you from becoming senile. But by that argument bankers should be geniuses. That's not right. Thickest heads in the world. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 78fc2f7 | It was as if his eye were an ear and a crackle went through it each time he shot a look at the accordion. ... The notes fell, biting and sharp; it seemed the tooth that bit was hollowed with pain. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 2433c3f | Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they'd said was no news. Nothing ended, nothing began, nothing resolved. | simile | Annie Proulx | |
| 7be3415 | I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understanding of those influences that sculpt a character. | great-quotes life-truth respect tolerance understanding-life | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| 3ae5809 | The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| ddb1b08 | It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| ab62d14 | The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts. | nicotine | Sebastian Faulks | |
| dbef91a | That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. | opium | Sebastian Faulks | |
| c86b20a | We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time. | time | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 9910b9f | He who is discontented with what he has, and with what has been granted to him by fortune, is one who is ignorant of the art of living, but he who bears that in a noble spirit, and makes reasonable use of all that comes from it, deserves to be regarded as a good man. | Epictetus | ||
| 23bc72b | I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him. | Marcus Aurelius | ||
| 8645e81 | For I am not Eternity, but a human being--a part of the whole, as an hour is part of the day. I must come like the hour, and like the hour must pass! | Epictetus | ||
| cba5865 | So if you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don't like doing something, make a habit of doing something different. | Epictetus | ||
| 6b9e844 | In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own. | Epictetus | ||
| be5d904 | What about your beloved Epictetus? Or your beloved Emily Dickinson? You want your Emily, every time she has an urge to write a poem, to just sit down and say a prayer till her nasty, egotistical urge goes away? No, of course you don't! But you'd like your friend Professor Tupper's ego taken away from him. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| b7aaa65 | For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow. | Epictetus | ||
| d3f642d | Does anyone bathe hastily? Do not say that they do it ill, but hastily. Does anyone drink much wine? Do not say that they do ill, but that they drink a great deal. For unless you perfectly understand their motives, how should you know if they act ill? Thus you will not risk yielding to any appearances except those you fully comprehend. | Epictetus | ||
| d40c5ea | You will never have to experience defeat if you avoid contests whose outcome is outside your control. | Epictetus | ||
| ddcd978 | If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defense against what was said, but answer, "He surely knows not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!" | Epictetus | ||
| 9654281 | Isn't reading a kind of preparation for life?' But life is composed of things other than books. It is as if an athlete, on entering the stadium, were to complain that he's not outside exercising.This was the goal of your exercise, of your weights, your practice ring and your training partners. | Epictetus | ||
| 5d18413 | IN THE morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present- I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? | Marcus Aurelius | ||
| f2314f9 | Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions. | Epictetus | ||
| 0015311 | Conduct yourself in all matters, grand and public or small and domestic, in accordance with the laws of nature. Harmonizing your will with nature should be your utmost ideal. | Epictetus | ||
| 26eab5e | If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers. | Epictetus | ||
| 32f489b | who is your master? Whoever has authority over anything that you're anxious to gain or avoid. | Epictetus | ||
| 882ff61 | That is the way things are weighed and disagreements settled -- when standards are established. Philosophy aims to test and set such standards. And the wise man is advised to make use of their findings right way. | Epictetus | ||
| de3ff13 | Don't concern yourself with other people's business. It's his problem if he receives you badly. And you cannot suffer for another person's fault. So don't worry about the behavior of other. | Epictetus | ||
| 648c4c0 | Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me. | Epictetus | ||
| ecdc086 | Those proficient praise no one, blame no one, and accuse no one. They say nothing concerning their self as being anybody or knowing anything. | Epictetus | ||
| 9d8ae2b | It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them. | Epictetus | ||
| 5e4a8d6 | Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. | Epictetus | ||
| 1c896a1 | Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. --EPICTETUS | Jonathan Haidt | ||
| dd6be81 | There is only one way to happiness," Epictetus taught the Romans, "and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." | Dale Carnegie | ||
| 8a4dfe0 | You can't recall someone whose name has worn away. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| a48d2e4 | But the positive thoughts would give away to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 70dbc83 | The place where you live - your home - is one of the most important things in a body's life. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 8135d81 | When Dad wasn't telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| c41ba85 | I felt there was a lot I needed to teach her. I wanted to give her an early grounding in the basics of arithmetic and reading, but even more important, I wanted to get across the idea that the world was a dangerous place and life was unpredictable and you had to be smart, focused, and determined to make it through. You had to be willing to work hard and persevere in the face of misfortune. A lot of people, even those born with brains and be.. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| fcd8c39 | What struck me most was his crooked grin, like he saw the world in his own special way and got a kick out of it. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 930a8af | I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear. | fear loss | Sebastian Faulks | |
| b17ad90 | That night Christine Hartmann went to bed with a book she had taken from among the many that lay strewn around the Manor. From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else's. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on their ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her o.. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 32967af | I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous. | Sebastian Faulks |