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  • #1
    Libba Bray
    “I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
    Libba Bray

  • #2
    Erich Fromm
    “A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
    Erich fromm, The Art of Being

  • #3
    Erich Fromm
    “Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.”
    Erich Fromm

  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #6
    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #7
    David Crystal
    “I believe that any form of writing exercise is good for you. I also believe that any form of tuition which helps develop your awareness of the different properties, styles, and effects of writing is good for you. It helps you become a better reader, more sensitive to nuance, and a better writer, more sensitive to audience. Texting language is no different from other innovative forms of written expression that have emerged in the past. It is a type of language whose communicative strengths and weaknesses need to be appreciated.”
    David Crystal, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8

  • #8
    John Keats
    “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
    John Keats

  • #9
    Dick Francis
    “Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.”
    Dick Francis, Dead Cert
    tags: love, risk

  • #10
    David Crystal
    “Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead.”
    David Crystal, Language Play

  • #11
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #12
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #13
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #14
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #15
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it. Furthermore, the idea underlying it shows that it is ours, ours, something that belongs to us alone and that is our own property, our own national 'new word'or, at any rate, the beginning of it.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • #16
    Francesco Petrarca
    “I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”
    Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere: Selected Poems

  • #17
    Dale Carnegie
    “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ”
    Dale Carnegie

  • #18
    Dale Carnegie
    “Our thoughts make us what we are.”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

  • #20
    Dale Carnegie
    “Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

  • #21
    Dale Carnegie
    “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

  • #22
    Dale Carnegie
    “One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
    Dale Carnegie

  • #23
    Kate Chopin
    “There were days when she was very happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in. And she found it good to dream and to be alone and unmolested.

    There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why—when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening

  • #24
    Kate Chopin
    “Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening
    tags: life

  • #25
    Kate Chopin
    “It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening

  • #26
    Kate Chopin
    “There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening

  • #27
    Kate Chopin
    “Goodbye -- Because I love you.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening



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