Sign in with Facebook
2,257 books
—
2,434 voters
“There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. ”
―
―
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”
―
―
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
―
―
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
―
―
“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know.”
― Eleven Minutes
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know.”
― Eleven Minutes
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
60 books
|
27 friends
23 books
|
25 friends
101 books
|
52 friends
10 books
|
66 friends
279 books
|
6 friends
52 books
|
11 friends
67 books
|
2 friends
643 books
|
42 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Emily
Lists liked by Emily
