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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b5c6206 | She devoutly put away in her drawers her beautiful dress, down to the satin shoes whose soles were yellowed with the slippery wax of the dancing floor. Her heart was like these. In its friction against wealth something had come over it that could not be effaced. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| d4d12cc | Prima di sposarsi, Emma aveva creduto d'amare; ma la felicita che avrebbe dovuto nascere dal quell'amore non era venuta, e pensava che doveva essersi sbagliata. Ella cercava ora, di sapere che cosa volessero esattamente dire, nella vita, le parole felicita, passione ed ebbrezza, che le erano sembrate tanto belle, lette nei libri | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 502e93e | Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart was like them: contact with wealth had laid something over it that would not be wiped away. | yearning | Gustave Flaubert | |
| b5bf635 | Charles's conversation was as flat as a sidewalk, and everyone's ideas filed along it in their ordinary clothes, exciting no emotion, no laughter, no reverie. He had never been curious, he said, when he lived in Rouen, to go to the theater and see the actors from Paris. He did not know how to swim, or fence, or fire a pistol, and he could not explain to her, one day, a riding term she had come upon in a novel. But shouldn't a man know every.. | unrealistic-expectations | Gustave Flaubert | |
| f88b7a0 | gr adm fqT pnj shsh khtb r bh khwby my shnkht, chh mHqq brjsth y my shd | novelist readers reviewers writers | Gustave Flaubert | |
| d1dbf51 | I touched her comb and took it out; her hair came flooding down like a wave, and her long black tresses quivered as they fell to her hips. I immediately ran my hand over it, and in it, and beneath it; I plunged my arm into it, and bathed my face in it, filled with sadness. Sometimes I would enjoy separating it into two, from behind, and then bringing it over her shoulder so as to hide her breasts; then I would bring all her hair together in.. | november | Gustave Flaubert | |
| cf9530f | but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house. | jealousy motherhood nostalgia | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 2c52bd2 | Emma still had a joyless look, and, habitually, at the corners of her mouth, she had that tightness that crumples the faces of old maids and bankrupts. | unhappiness | Gustave Flaubert | |
| b8f1264 | If I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important." | Mario Puzo | ||
| c6308d1 | This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness. | control happiness | Gretchen Rubin | |
| bd04def | Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return. | denial emotional-health happiness | Gretchen Rubin | |
| 2eddbfb | If we want something to count in our lives, we should figure out a way to count it. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| b4c65f6 | Once I started trying to give positive reviews, though, I began to understand how much happiness I took from the joyous ones in my life---and how much effort it must take for them to be consistently good=tempered and positive. It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light. We nonjoyous types suck energy and cheer from the joyous ones; we rely on them to buoy us with their good spirit and to cushion our agitation and anxiety. At the same time, be.. | joy optimism pessimism | Gretchen Rubin | |
| feb578d | Habits make change possible by freeing us from decision making and from using self-control. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| afaa2d6 | The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. The things I do every day take on a certain beauty and provide a kind of invisible architecture to my life. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 8326a1b | When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| d5afd8c | Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. Happy people make better friends, colleagues, and citizens. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| cc47160 | It struck me as poignant that my long relationship with my beloved grandparents could be embodied in a few small objects. But the power of objects doesn't depend on their volume; in fact, my memories were better evoked by a few carefully chosen items than by a big assortment of things with vague associations. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 7345dfa | Accept myself, and expect more of myself. Give myself limits to give myself freedom. Make people happier by acknowledging that they're not feeling happy. Plan ahead to be spontaneous; only with careful preparation do I feel carefree. Accomplish more by working less. Happiness doesn't always make me feel happy. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection. It's very hard to make things easier. My material desires have a spiritual aspec.. | positive-thinking | Gretchen Rubin | |
| 292bb34 | In fact, for both men and women--and this finding struck me as highly significant--the most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 0d20fbc | It's been freeing to focus on what works for me rather than what's wrong with me. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 1bb2991 | To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| a02341b | A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it's often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to be at the summit. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 8e6866e | Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive." And whatever liberates our spirit while giving us mastery over ourselves is constructive." -- | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 8532878 | Nothing is more exhausting than the task that's never started, and strangely, starting is often far harder than continuing. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 5f91e7b | And I looked,' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just stared in amazement. 'It's in the gospel book,' he explained sheepishly, 'and it just cam to mind. | prophesy title war | Bernard Cornwell | |
| 8176f7a | Members of teams that tend to avoid conflict must occasionally assume the role of a "miner of conflict"--someone who extracts buried disagreements within the team and sheds the light of day on them. They must have the courage and confidence to call out sensitive issues and force team members to work through them. This requires a degree of objectivity during meetings and a commitment to staying with the conflict until it is resolved. Some" | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 9fba67d | The ultimate test of a great team is results. And considering that tens of thousands of people escaped from the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., there can be no doubt that the teams who risked, and lost, their lives to save them were extraordinary. | Patrick M. Lencioni | ||
| 6f957c1 | When a group of intelligent people come together to talk about issues that matter, it is both natural and productive for disagreement to occur. Resolving those issues is what makes a meeting productive, engaging, even fun. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 04bbbae | executives must put the needs of the higher team ahead of the needs of their departments. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| e1b3b1c | teamwork is not a virtue. It is a choice--and a strategic one. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 19413f5 | I don't think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it's not a little uncomfortable, then it's not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway | conflict-management conflict-resolution | Patrick Lencioni | |
| 3ae361d | No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn't my fault. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 8da9ae8 | Every endeavor of importance in life, whether it is creative, athletic, interpersonal, or academic, brings with it a measure of discomfort, | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 07ac56b | there cannot be alignment deeper in the organization, even when employees want to cooperate, if the leaders at the top aren't in lockstep with one another | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 2437da6 | The single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| b1e7e22 | New metaphors are capable of creating new understandings and, therefore, new realities. This should be obvious in the case of poetic metaphor, where language is the medium through which new conceptual metaphors are created. | George Lakoff | ||
| 72612f3 | Fourth, the system of conceptual metaphors is not arbitrary or just historically contingent; rather, it is shaped to a significant extent by the common nature of our bodies and the shared ways that we all function in the everyday world. | George Lakoff | ||
| 9377b0d | LABOR IS A RESOURCE and TIME IS A RESOURCE are by no means universal. They emerged naturally in our culture because of the way we view work, our passion for quantification, and our obsession with purposeful ends. These metaphors highlight those aspects of labor and time that are centrally important in our culture. In doing this, they also deemphasize or hide certain aspects of labor and time. We can see what both metaphors hide by examining.. | George Lakoff | ||
| 4c435a0 | In philosophy, metaphorical pluralism is the norm. Our most important abstract philosophical concepts, including time, causation, morality, and the mind, are all conceptualized by multiple metaphors, sometimes as many as two dozen. What each philosophical theory typically does is to choose one of those metaphors as "right," as the true literal meaning of the concept. One reason there is so much argumentation across philosophical theories is.. | concept embodied-mind logic metaphor philosophy reason | George Lakoff | |
| d0f4851 | If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all you need to do is give people the facts and the figures and they will reach the right conclusion. You will think that all you need to do is point out where their interests lie, and they will act politically to maximize them. You will believe in polling and focus groups: you will believe that if you ask people what their interests .. | does-it-make-a-sound george-lakeoff humor-inspirational humor-irony-death-zombie life-and-living life-interpreting political-interpreting political-philosophy political-science relationship-interpreting | George Lakoff | |
| 75955cc | As a consequence, it should be true that if you just get the facts out to people, they will reason to the right conclusion. And so year after year, decade after decade, liberals keep telling facts to conservative audiences without changing many minds. This behavior by liberals is itself a form of science denial--the denial of the cognitive and brain sciences. It is simply irrational behavior by many people proud of their rationality. It | George Lakoff | ||
| 1743ef7 | People do not necessarily vote in their self-interest. They vote their identity. They vote their values. They vote for who they identify with. | George Lakoff | ||
| 096eb26 | Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within them--if we want to see it--there is blood, dust, lo.. | Victoria Finlay |