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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete... Remember, to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person might not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
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Bob Moorehead (Words Aptly Spoken)
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Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.
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Marcel Proust (In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower)
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Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.
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bell hooks (All About Love: New Visions)
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When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.
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Shannon L. Alder
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I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last.
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Charlotte Brontรซ (Shirley)
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If you hurt herโ€”โ€ โ€œIf I hurt her, I will bring every weapon at my disposal and lay them at your feet for you to do to me what you will. If I hurt her, I will no sooner carve out my own heart than dare draw breath again.โ€ She was silent. โ€œDo you understand?โ€ he prompted. โ€œYou love her.โ€ No, he did not love her. The word for what he felt for Zafira bint Iskandar did not yet exist.
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Hafsah Faizal (We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya, #2))
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Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing everyday that scares you. Sing. Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss. Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements. Stretch. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone. Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's. Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. Read the directions, even if you don't follow them. Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out. Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. But trust me on the sunscreen.
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Mary Schmich (Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life)
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The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.
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Jodi Picoult (The Storyteller)
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It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.
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Ann Druyan
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Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow his bounties. they will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but when God ascends Hes throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth. And we proclaim an enthroned God, and His right to do as He wills with His own, to dispose of His creatures as He thinks well, without consulting them in the matter; then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on His throne is not the God they love. But it is God upon the throne that we love to preach. It is God upon His throne whom we trust.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Sometimes we think that to develop an open heart, to be truly loving and compassionate, means that we need to be passive, to allow others to abuse us, to smile and let anyone do what they want with us. Yet this is not what is meant by compassion. Quite the contrary. Compassion is not at all weak. It is the strength that arises out of seeing the true nature of suffering in the world. Compassion allows us to bear witness to that suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, and to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal. To develop this mind state of compassion...is to learn to live, as the Buddha put it, with sympathy for all living beings, without exception.
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Sharon Salzberg (Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Shambhala Library))
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I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, for two years, the brightest moments I found were the ones in your office, where I could lift my head to look up at you. I did not know the nature of what I felt in your presence, nor the reason. I know it now. That is all I want, Hank. I want you in my bed - and you are free of me for all the rest of your time. There's nothing you'll have to pretend - don't think of me, don't feel; don't care - I do not want your mind, your will, your being or your soul, so long as it's to me you will come for that lowest one of your desires. I am an animal who wants nothing but the sensation of pleasure which you despise - but I want it from you. You'd give up amy height of virtue for it , while I - I haven't any to give up. There's none I seek or wish to reach. I am so low that I would exchange the greatest sight of beauty in the world for the sight of your figure in the cab of a railroad engine. Amd seeing it, I would not be able to see it indifferently. You don't have to fear that you're now dependent on me. It's I who will depend on any whim of yours. You'll have me anytime you wish, anywhere, on any terms. Did you call it the obscenity of my talent? It's such that it gives you a safer hold on me than on any other property you own. You may dispose of me as you please - I'm not afraid to admit it - I have nothing to protect from you and nothing to reserve. You think that this is a threat to your achievement, but it is not to mine. I will sit at my desk, and work, and when the things around me get hard to bear, I will think that for my reward I will be in your bed that night. Did you call it depravity? I am much more depraved than you are: you hold it as your guilt, and I - as my pride. I'm more proud of it than anything I've done, more proud than of building the Line. If I'm asked to name my proudest attainment, I will say: I have slept with Hank Rearden. I had earned it.
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Ayn Rand
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past -- whether he admits it or not -- can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.
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Hans Urs von Balthasar (Seeing the Form (The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, Vol. 1))
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A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour.
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Jonathan Edwards (The Religious Affections)
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Real love shouldn't be disposable.
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Ellen Hopkins (Perfect (Impulse, #2))
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, โ€” in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity,โ€”in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption,โ€”in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Edmund Burke (A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834))
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Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
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Elbert Hubbard
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In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.
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Neil Strauss (The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists)
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Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the one criteria being whether or not individualistic desires are satisfied.
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bell hooks (All About Love: New Visions)
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Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ?
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Jean Sasson (Love in a Torn Land: Joanna of Kurdistan: The True Story of a Freedom Fighter's Escape from Iraqi Vengeance)
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It was well for him, with his chivalry and mysticism, to make the grand renunciation. But it takes two to make love, or to make a quarrel. She was not an insensate piece of property to be taken up or laid down at his convenience. You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover's soul was not you own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.
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T.H. White (The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4))
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If I become content by having my desire satisfied, that is only self-love; but when I am contented with the hand of God and am willing to be at His disposal, that comes from my love to God.
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Jeremiah Burroughs (The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment)
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A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.
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Niccolรฒ Machiavelli (The Prince)
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You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory! I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I only believe in the easy things, like red lipstick and coffee before noon and writing essays in pen. I make my mind up about boys and then I unmake it, compare us to continental drift, two ships passing. I hit the snooze button too often. Write disposable poems on napkins and old homework, try to discipline myself when it comes to removing my makeup before bed. I am trying to understand men better, cut them some slack, write about them less. I dream about oceans and mountains and wolves. I do not always love myself. I do not always forgive myself. I write apology letters and do not send them. Usually, I do not mean it when I tell someone goodbye.
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Kristina Haynes
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Do you know about the spoons? Because you should. The Spoon Theory was created by a friend of mine, Christine Miserandino, to explain the limits you have when you live with chronic illness. Most healthy people have a seemingly infinite number of spoons at their disposal, each one representing the energy needed to do a task. You get up in the morning. Thatโ€™s a spoon. You take a shower. Thatโ€™s a spoon. You work, and play, and clean, and love, and hate, and thatโ€™s lots of damn spoonsย โ€ฆ but if you are young and healthy you still have spoons left over as you fall asleep and wait for the new supply of spoons to be delivered in the morning. But if you are sick or in pain, your exhaustion changes you and the number of spoons you have. Autoimmune disease or chronic pain like I have with my arthritis cuts down on your spoons. Depression or anxiety takes away even more. Maybe you only have six spoons to use that day. Sometimes you have even fewer. And you look at the things you need to do and realize that you donโ€™t have enough spoons to do them all. If you clean the house you wonโ€™t have any spoons left to exercise. You can visit a friend but you wonโ€™t have enough spoons to drive yourself back home. You can accomplish everything a normal person does for hours but then you hit a wall and fall into bed thinking, โ€œI wish I could stop breathing for an hour because itโ€™s exhausting, all this inhaling and exhaling.โ€ And then your husband sees you lying on the bed and raises his eyebrow seductively and you say, โ€œNo. I canโ€™t have sex with you today because there arenโ€™t enough spoons,โ€ and he looks at you strangely because that sounds kinky, and not in a good way. And you know you should explain the Spoon Theory so he wonโ€™t get mad but you donโ€™t have the energy to explain properly because you used your last spoon of the morning picking up his dry cleaning so instead you just defensively yell: โ€œI SPENT ALL MY SPOONS ON YOUR LAUNDRY,โ€ and he says, โ€œWhat theย โ€ฆ You canโ€™t pay for dry cleaning with spoons. What is wrong with you?โ€ Now youโ€™re mad because this is his fault too but youโ€™re too tired to fight out loud and so you have the argument in your mind, but it doesnโ€™t go well because youโ€™re too tired to defend yourself even in your head, and the critical internal voices take over and youโ€™re too tired not to believe them. Then you get more depressed and the next day you wake up with even fewer spoons and so you try to make spoons out of caffeine and willpower but that never really works. The only thing that does work is realizing that your lack of spoons is not your fault, and to remind yourself of that fact over and over as you compare your fucked-up life to everyone elseโ€™s just-as-fucked-up-but-not-as-noticeably-to-outsiders lives. Really, the only people you should be comparing yourself to would be people who make you feel better by comparison. For instance, people who are in comas, because those people have no spoons at all and you donโ€™t see anyone judging them. Personally, I always compare myself to Galileo because everyone knows heโ€™s fantastic, but he has no spoons at all because heโ€™s dead. So technically Iโ€™m better than Galileo because all Iโ€™ve done is take a shower and already Iโ€™ve accomplished more than him today. If we were having a competition Iโ€™d have beaten him in daily accomplishments every damn day of my life. But Iโ€™m not gloating because Galileo canโ€™t control his current spoon supply any more than I can, and if Galileo couldnโ€™t figure out how to keep his dwindling spoon supply I think itโ€™s pretty unfair of me to judge myself for mine. Iโ€™ve learned to use my spoons wisely. To say no. To push myself, but not too hard. To try to enjoy the amazingness of life while teetering at the edge of terror and fatigue.
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Jenny Lawson (Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things)
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Robin was disposed to feel desperately sorry for anyone with a less fortunate love life than her own โ€“ if desperate pity could describe the exquisite pleasure she actually felt at the thought of her own comparative paradise.
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Robert Galbraith (The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1))
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I find things hidden in books: dried flowers, locks of hair, tickets, labels, receipt, invoices, photographs, postcards, all manner of cards. I find letters, unpublished works by the ordinary, the anguished, the illiterate. Clumsily written or eloquent, they are love letters, everyday letters, secret letters and mundane letters talking about fruit and babies and tennis matches, from people signing themselves as Majorie or Jean....I can't bring myself to dispose of these snippets and snapshots of lives that once meant (or still do mean) so much.
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Louise Walters (Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase)
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No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take over and purge them in that fire that is dark for them, as we will explain.
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Juan de la Cruz (Dark Night of the Soul)
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The Latin word for sausage was botulus, from which English gets two words. One of them is the lovely botuliform, which means sausage-shaped and is a more useful word than you might think. The other word is botulism. Sausages may taste lovely, but it's usually best not to ask what's actually in them. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was a sausage-maker who disposed of the body.
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Mark Forsyth (The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language)
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My dear child,' said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, 'you need not be afraid of my deserting you, unless you give me cause.' I never, never will, sir,' interposed Oliver. I hope not,' rejoined the old gentleman; 'I do not think you ever will. I have been deceived before, in the objects whom I have endeavoured to benefit; but I feel strongly disposed to trust you, nevertheless, and more strongly interested in your behalf than I can well account for, even to myself. The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.
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Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)
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There have been times when I felt that I might die of loneliness. People sometimes say they might die of boredom, that they're dying for a cup of tea, but for me, dying of loneliness is not a hyperbole. When I feel like that, my head drops and my shoulders slump and I ache, I physically ache, for human contact - I truly feel that I might tumble to the ground and pass away if someone doesn't hold me, touch me. I don't mean a lover - this recent madness aside, I had long since given up on any notion that another person might love me that way - but simply a human being. The scalp massage at the hairdresser, the flu jab I had last winter - the only time I experience touch is from people whom I am paying, and they are almost wearing disposable gloves at the time. I'm merely stating the facts.
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Gail Honeyman (Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine)
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FORBIDDEN Pain without learning is forbidden, waking up one day not knowing what to do, being afraid of your memories. It is forbidden not to smile at problems, not to fight for what you want, to abandon all because of fears, not to realize your dreams. It is forbidden not to show your love, to be ashamed of your tears, to not laugh with children, to make someone else pay your debts, bad humor. It is forbidden to forget your friends, to not try to understand why they live far away, to treat people as disposable, to call them only when you need them. It is forbidden to not be yourself in front of others, pretending around people you donโ€™t care about, trying to be funny just so you'll be remembered, to forget about all the people who love you. It is forbidden not to do things for yourself, to be afraid of life and its commitments, to not to live each day as if it were your last. It forbidden to take someone out without having fun, to forget their eyes, their laugh, to not respect love even if it is past, just because your paths have stopped crossing, to forget your past and only live in the moment. It is forbidden not to try to understand people, to think that otherโ€™s lives are worth more than yours, to not know that each one of us has our own way and our own happiness. It is forbidden not create your own story, to have no time for people who need you, to not understand what life gives to you, and that it can also be taken away. It is forbidden not find your happiness, to not live your life with a positive attitude, to not think we can do better and be better, to feel that without you, this world would still be the same...
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Josรฉ N. Harris (Mi Vida)
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She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation.
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Henry James
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When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it. And I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three. And now, the twilight of my life, this understanding has passed into contentment. Love, liberty, and time: once so disposable, are the fuels that drive me forward. And love, most especially, mio caro. For you, our children, our brothers and sisters. And for the vast and wonderful world that gave us life, and keeps us guessing. Endless affection, mia Sofia. Forever yours, Ezio Auditore.
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Ezio Auditore da Firenze
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The spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it disposes us to go to God, and behave ourselves towards God as children; and it gives us clear evidence of our union to God as His children, and so casts out fear. So that it appears that the witness of the Spirit the apostle speaks of, is far from being any whisper, or immediate suggestion or revelation; but that gracious holy effect of the Spirit of God in the hearts of the saints, the disposition and temper of children, appearing in sweet childlike love to God, which casts out fear or a spirit of a slave.
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Jonathan Edwards (The Religious Affections)
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After all,how long could it take to fix a garbage disposal? He could have built her a freaking new one by now. With his teeth.
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Rachel Hawthorne (Love on the Lifts)
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Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.
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Neil Gaiman
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Social media is basically standing at a bucket filled with other peopleโ€™s vomit and you suck the vomit through a straw, and gag and wince at the unbearable taste of other peopleโ€™s vomit. Yet strangely we continue to suck through the straw as if weโ€™ve never tasted such lovely vomit. And then before you know it youโ€™re old and youโ€™re grey. And thatโ€™s the end of you. A lonely death. Your gravestone is marked with the six saddest words: Social Media Drained My Soul Away And they all mourn your loss at a budget funeral service while updating their social media statuses on mobile phones apps. And in years to come nobody remembers any of your updates; even those updates that you deep-down believed were going to bring about world peace. The Digital Age is more disposable than nappies and just as full of shit.
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Rupert Dreyfus (The Rebel's Sketchbook)
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The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble to arrive till to-morrow. Whichever she did Mrs Leak would not mind. That was one of the advantages of dealing with witches; they do not mind if you are a little odd in your ways, frown if you are late for meals, fret if you are out all night, pry and commiserate when at length you return. Lovely to be with people who prefer their thoughts to yours, lovely to live at your own sweet will, lovely to sleep out all night!
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Sylvia Townsend Warner (Lolly Willowes)
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Plastic should be a high value material... [It] should be in products that last a long time, and at the end of the life, you recycle it. To take oil or natural gas that took millions of years to produce and then to make a disposable product that last minutes or seconds, and then to just discard it--I think that's not a good way of using this resource. (Robert Haley)
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Susan Freinkel (Plastic: A Toxic Love Story)
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You are too timid for me. You care too much about what other people think. But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try. You say you want to travel the path, but you don't want to sacrifice anything to that end. Money, fame, power, lavishness, or carnal pleasure - whatever it is that one holds most dear in life, one should dispose of that first.
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Elif Shafak (The Forty Rules of Love)
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The same three tasks recur across cultures and epochs: to shelter what is precious, to yield what is valuable, and to dispose of what is harmful. Shelter (memories, precious matter, messages, fragile lives). Yield (information, wealth, metaphors, minerals, visions). Dispose (waste, trauma, poison, secrets). Into the underland we have long placed that which we fear and wish to lose, and that which we love and wish to save.
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Robert Macfarlane (Underland: A Deep Time Journey)
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RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.
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Ben Marcus
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Every person whom we love, indeed to a certain extent every person is to us like Janus, presenting to us the face that we like if that person leaves us, the repellent face if we know him or her to be perpetually at our disposal.
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Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7])
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We create a machine with intelligence and self-awareness and push it out into our imperfect world. Devised along generally rational lines, well disposed to others, such a mind soon finds itself in a hurricane of contradictions. Weโ€™ve lived with them and the list wearies us. Millions dying of diseases we know how to cure. Millions living in poverty when thereโ€™s enough to go around. We degrade the biosphere when we know itโ€™s our only home. We threaten each other with nuclear weapons when we know where it could lead. We love living things but we permit a mass extinction of species. And all the rest โ€“ genocide, torture, enslavement, domestic murder, child abuse, school shootings, rape and scores of daily outrages.
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Ian McEwan (Machines Like Me)
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Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds, for since it has been disposed to make the love-life a pastime, it has also felt obliged to trivialize it, to make it cheap, risk-free and secure, as public pleasures usually are.
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Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)
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You are not disposable. I know you feel that way when people choose to walk out of your life, but their emptiness causes space. And that vacant area of your life is desperately crying out for the one meant to take up residence. Let the angry tenant go. You don't want someone staying because you've begged and pleaded for their occupancy. You want the one who sees your quaking heart and says: "Honey I'm home".
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Alfa Holden (Abandoned Breaths)
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Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž… ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฒ• ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order? We invest something of ourselves in our material world, which in turn reflects who we are. In the era of disposability that plastic has helped us foster, we have increasingly invested ourselves in objects that have no real meaning in our lives. We think of disposable lighters as conveniences -- which they indisputably are; ask any smoker or backyard-barbecue chef -- and yet we don't think much about the tradeoffs that that convenience entails.
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Susan Freinkel (Plastic: A Toxic Love Story)
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Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž… ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ์ •ํ’ˆ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฒ• ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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He was not above calling a book unreadable. But their literary merit wasnโ€™t important at this moment. They were words strung together to represent the firing of neurons and the transferring of information through synapses. They were human minds set into paper, and Sebastian loved every single one of them, even the ones he found disposable.
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Scott Thomas (Kill Creek)
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To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problemsโ€ฆwhich he has to solveโ€ฆAnd he is distressed to find that the more means he can dispose ofโ€”such as machine-power, rapid transport, and general civilized amenities, the more his problems grow in hardness and complexityโ€ฆ.Perhaps the first thing he can learn form the artists is that the only way of 'mastering' one's material is to abandon the whole conception of mastery and to co-operate with it in love: whosoever will be a lord of life, let him be its servant.
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Dorothy L. Sayers (The Mind of the Maker)
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One of the most common corruptions of childrearing remains the controlling caregiverโ€™s propensity to shape the child into an object aligned with the caregiverโ€™s own unprocessed trauma. Controlling caregivers have a variety of methods at their disposal to accomplish this, including such โ€œcivilizedโ€ approaches as manipulating, conditionally loving, withdrawing attention, threatening, isolating, shaming, guilt-tripping, humiliating, and withdrawing resources.
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Darius Cikanavicius (Human Development and Trauma: How Childhood Shapes Us into Who We Are as Adults)
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No matter. There is such a thing as looking through a personโ€™s eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of anotherโ€™s soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.
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Anne Brontรซ (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
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She shrugged, looking as baffled by it as he felt. "I don't know. I wonder sometimes if people even know what love is anymore. Some days, when I'm watching my friends change lovers as unperturbedly as they change shoes, I think the world just got filled with too many people, and all our technological advances made things so easy that it cheapened our most basic, essential value somehow," she told him. "It's like spouses are commodities nowadays: disposable, constantly getting tossed back out for trade on the market and everyone's trying to trade up, up--like there is a 'trading up' in love." She rolled her eyes. "No way. That's not for me. I'm having one husband. I'm getting married once. When you know going in that you're staying for life, it makes you think harder about it, go slower, choose really well.
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Karen Marie Moning (Spell of the Highlander (Highlander, #7))
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I fell in love with a sniper - a man whose basic training instills psychopathic tendencies. I loved a professional dehumanizer. I loved a man who lived in a world where empathy was suicide. I loved a man who had to be ready to put a bullet through a toddlerโ€™s skull if necessary. I loved a man highly skilled in burying his emotions, resurrecting them if and when he chose. I loved a man who saw me as his enemy. I loved a man I was disposable to.
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Maggie Georgiana Young (Just Another Number)
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My God." He pushed away from the bedpost. "Friends! And do you fall into bed with any man who's 'dear' to you? How am I to take that?" "Of course I don't." She stood up, letting the knotted scarf slip away. "I can't seem to help myself. With you. About that. It's extremely vexing." "You're quite right on that count," he said sullenly. "I'm damned vexed. I'd like to vex you right here on the floor, in fact. And the idea of Sturgeon vexing you is enough to dispose me to murder. Is that clear? Do you comprehend me?" He took a reckless stride toward her and caught her chin between his fingers. "I'm not your friend, my lady. I'm your lover.
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Laura Kinsale (Lessons in French)
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I have been deceived, before, in the objects whom I have endeavoured to benefit; but I feel strongly disposed to trust you, nevertheless; and I am more interested in your behalf than I can well account for, even to myself. The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, forever,on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them...
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Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)
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Surely, cousin, you cannot mean to jilt her?' said Anthea, in accents of reprobation. 'Nay, it wouldn't be seemly,' he agreed. 'I'll just have to dispose of her, as you might say.' 'Good God! Murder her?' 'There's no need to be in a quake,' he said reassuringly. 'No one will ever know!' 'If only - oh, if only I could do to you what I *long* to do!' exclaimed Anthea. 'If you were but a few inches shorter -- !' He said hopefully: 'Nay, don't let that fatch you, love! It'll be no trouble at all to lift you up: in fact, there's nothing I'd like better!' Furiously blushing, she retorted: 'I didn't mean that I wished to *kiss* you!
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Georgette Heyer (The Unknown Ajax)
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The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.
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Jodi Picoult
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But, if you've decided to go out on a limb and kill one, for goodness' sake, be prepared. We all read, with dismay, the sad story of a good woman wronged in south Mississippi who took that option and made a complete mess of the entire thing. See, first she shot him. Well, she saw right off the bat that that was a mistake because then she had this enormous dead body to deal with. He was every bit as much trouble to her dead as he ever had been alive, and was getting more so all the time. So then, she made another snap decision to cut him up in pieces and dispose of him a hunk at a time. More poor planning. First, she didn't have the proper carving utensils on hand and hacking him up proved to be just a major chore, plus it made just this colossal mess on her off-white shag living room carpet. It's getting to be like the Cat in the Hat now, only Thing Two ain't showing up to help with the clean-up. She finally gets him into portable-size portions, and wouldn't you know it? Cheap trash bags. Can anything else possible go wrong for this poor woman? So, the lesson here is obvious--for want of a small chain saw, a roll of Visqueen and some genuine Hefty bags, she is in Parchman Penitentiary today instead of New Orleans, where she'd planned to go with her new boyfriend. Preparation is everything.
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Jill Conner Browne (The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love: A Fallen Southern Belle's Look at Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and Being Prepared)
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The narcissist has to defend himself against his own premonitions, his internal sempiternal trial, his guilt, shame, and anxiety. One of the more efficacious defense mechanisms at his disposal is false modesty. The narcissist publicly chastises himself for being unworthy, unfit, lacking, not trained and not (formally) schooled, not objective, cognizant of his own shortcomings, and vain. This way, if (or, rather, when) exposed for what he is, he can always say: "But I told you so in the first place, haven't I?" False modesty is, thus, an insurance policy. The narcissist "hedges his bets" by placing a side bet on his own fallibilityโ€ฆ Yet another function is to extract Narcissistic Supply from the listener. By contrasting his own self-deprecation with a brilliant, dazzling display of ingenuity, wit, intellect, knowledge, or beauty, the narcissist aims to secure .. protestation from the listener.
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Sam Vaknin (Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited)
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With all the conceptual truths in the universe at his disposal,โ€ writes Barbara Brown Taylor, โ€œ[Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when he was gone. Instead, he gave them concrete things to doโ€”specific ways of being together in their bodiesโ€”that would go on teaching them what they needed to know when he was no longer around to teach them himself . . . โ€˜Do this,โ€™ he saidโ€”not believe this but do thisโ€”โ€˜in remembrance of me.โ€™ โ€40
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Rachel Held Evans (Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church)
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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๋ฌผ๋ฝ•ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํด๋ŸฝํŒŒํ‹ฐ์ „์šฉ ์ •ํ’ˆghbํŒ๋งค โ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…โ–ณ ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ์ž… ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•์•ฝํšจ ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•!
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ์ •ํ’ˆ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ›„๊ธฐ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œ ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋งค โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… โ€œThere must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ›„๊ธฐ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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There must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body
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์ •ํ’ˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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The weapons a writer has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example.I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.
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Jodi Picoult (The Storyteller)
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Sebastian ran a finger over the spines of the books on the shelf. It did not matter to him what the titles were. They were books. They were filled with thoughts. Their relevance was debatable; he was sure some were exceptional while others were the works of lesser minds. He was not above calling a book unreadable. But their literary merit wasnโ€™t important at this moment. They were words strung together to represent the firing of neurons and the transferring of information through synapses. They were human minds set into paper, and Sebastian loved every single one of them, even the ones he found disposable.
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Scott Thomas (Kill Creek)
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๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œ ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋งค โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… โ€œThere must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ์ •ํ’ˆ๊ตฌ์ž…๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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All of us, all human beings, are basically inclined or disposes toward what we perceive to be good. Whatever we do, we do because we think it will be of some benefit. At the same time, we all appreciate the kindness of others. We are all, by nature, oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others' generosity to their meanness. And who among us does not prefer tolerance, respect, and forgiveness of out failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?
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Dalai Lama XIV (Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World)
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When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no brick and no temples. Any visible expression of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers. Then, if there be no tangible thing to hoot he feels, perhaps, the desire to confront a personification and indulge in pleas, bowed to one knee, and with hands supplicant, saying: "Yes, but I love myself.
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Stephen Crane (Open Boat (Creative Short Stories))
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There must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body
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๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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19. Before the divine fire is introduced into the substance of the soul and united with it through perfect and complete purgation and purity, its flame, which is the Holy Spirit, wounds the soul by destroying and consuming the imperfections of its bad habits. And this is the work of the Holy Spirit, in which he disposes it for divine union and transformation in God through love. The very fire of love that afterward is united with the soul, glorifying it, is what previously assailed it by purging it, just as the fire that penetrates a log of wood is the same that first makes an assault on the wood, wounding it with the flame, drying it out, and stripping it of its unsightly qualities until it is so disposed that it can be penetrated and transformed into the fire. Spiritual writers call this activity the purgative way.
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Juan de la Cruz (The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross (includes The Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Dark Night, The Spiritual Canticle, The Living Flame of Love, Letters, and The Minor Works) [Revised Edition])
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It was really rather wretched that you couldnโ€™t will yourself to fall in love, for the very effort can keep falling at bay. Nor could you will yourself to stay that way. Least of all could you will yourself NOT to fall in love, for thus far whatever meager resistance she had put up had only made the compulsion more intense. So you were perpetually tyrannized by a feeling that came and went as it pleased, like a cat with its own pet door. How much more agreeable, if love were something that you stirred up from a reliable recipe, or elected, however perversely, to pour down the drain. Still, there was nothing for it. The popular expression notwithstanding, love was not something you made. Nor could you dispose of the stuff once manifested because it was inconvenient, or even because it was wicked, and ruining your life, and, by the by, someone elseโ€™s.
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Lionel Shriver (The Post-Birthday World)
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He told me that from now on, everything I did and everything he did was of the utmost importance: any word spoken, the slightest gesture, would take on a meaning, and everything that happened between us would change us continually. 'For that reason,'he said,'I wish I were able to suspend time at this moment and keep things exactly at this point, because I feel this instant is a true beginning. We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone. That's why I wish I could hold it back at the start. We should make a minimum of gestures, pronounce a minimum of words, even see each other as seldom as possible, if that would prolong things. We don't know how much of everything we have ahead of us so we have to take the greatest precautions not to destroy the beauty of what we have. Everything exists in limited quantity-especially happiness. If a love is to come into being, it is all written down somewhere, and also its duration and content. If you could arrive at the complete intensity the first day, it would be ended the first day. And so if it's something you want so much that you'd like to have it prolonged in time, you must be extremely careful not to make the slightest excessive demand that might prevent it from developing to the greatest extent over the longest period...If the wings of the butterfly are to keep their sheen, you mustn't touch them. We mustn't abuse something which is to bring light into both our lives. Everything else in my life only weighs me down and shuts out the light. This thing wih you seems like a window that is opening up. I want it to remain open...
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Franรงoise Gilot (Life With Picasso)
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The communists think they have found the way to redeem mankind from evil. Man is equivocally good and well disposed to his neighbour, but his nature has been corrupted by the institution of private property ... I can recognize the psychological presumption behind it as a baseless illusion. With the abolition of private property the human love of aggression is robbed of one of its tools, a strong one no doubt, but certainly not the strongest ... Aggression was not created by property.
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Sigmund Freud
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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์ •ํ’ˆ์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ๊ตฌ๋งคํ›„๊ธฐ "์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„ํƒ‘" ์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,โ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…โ–ณ์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ์ •ํ’ˆํŒ๋งค,์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œํŒ๋งค,์ •ํ’ˆ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,
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When you see that a person's defects and bad qualities are so obvious, try to feel immediately that his defects and bad qualities do not represent him totally. His real self is infinitely better than what you see now. On the other hand, if you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it stands now and not expect it to come to a specific standard. If humanity has to become perfect before it can be accepted by you, then it would not need your love affection and concern. Right now, in its imperfect state of consciousness, humanity needs your help. Give humanity unreservedly even the most insignificant and limited help that you have at your disposal. This is the golden opportunity.
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Sri Chinmoy (The Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy)
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He loved physical books with the same avidity other people loved horses or wine or prog rock. He'd never really warmed to ebooks because they seemed to reduce a book to a computer file, and computer files were disposable things, things you never really owned. He had no emails from ten years ago but still owned every book he bought that year. Besides, what was more perfect an object than a book? The different rags of paper, smooth or rough under your fingers. The edge of the page pressed into your thumbprint as you turned a new chapter. The way your bookmark - fancy, modest, scrap paper, candy wrapper - moved through the width of it, marking your progress, a little further each time you folded it shut.
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Patrick Ness
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A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort -- sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine. This state of affairs, which arose out of a struggle against poverty, overshoots its ultimate goal -- the liberation of humanity from material cares -- and becomes an obsessive image hanging over the present. Between love and a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have made their choice and prefer the garbage disposal. A complete and sudden change of spirit has become essential, by bringing to light forgotten desires and creating entirely new ones. And by an intensive propaganda in favor of these desires. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
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Tom McDonough (The Situationists and the City: A Reader)
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So one of my core themes in The Myth of Male Powerโ€”that historyโ€™s controlling force was not patriarchy, but survivalโ€”is still ignored. Instead, the leading universitiesโ€™ womenโ€™s studies and โ€œgender studiesโ€ courses still emanate from the Marxist and Civil Rights model of oppressor vs. oppressed. Weโ€™ll see in this book exactly why the dichotomy of oppressor/oppressed is both inaccurate and, more important, undermines love and womenโ€™s empowerment. In virtually every leading university this leads to a demonizing of men and masculinity that distorts the very essence of traditional masculinityโ€”being socialized to be a hero by being willing to sacrifice oneself in war or in work. The possibility that being socialized to be disposable is not genuine power is, to this day, either considered radical, heretical, or, most frequently, not considered.
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Warren Farrell (The Myth of Male Power)
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Hank Green's Secrets of Productivity: 1.) I have convinced myself that if I am not using all of the tools I have in my disposal to do the maximum amount of good [...] then I am less of a good person than I could otherwise could be. [...] 2.) I intentionally put myself in situations where people who I care about and who I respect rely on me to do things, which is very motivating. [...] 3.) I don't get caught up in doing everything perfectly. [...] I just want to try stuff and if it explodes... it exploded! And I learned! 4.) I love giving other people responsibility. I love putting them in difficult situations and saying: "Figure this out. Help me do this." And if they do it wrong or if they do it differently than how I would have done it, I don't get mad as long as they're learning, because there's no way to get good at stuff except to do it and fail and learn. [...] 5.) I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!
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Hank Green
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The picture had no flourishes, but she liked its lowness of tone and the atmosphere of summer twilight that pervaded it. It spoke of the kind of personal issue that touched her most nearly; of the choice between objects, subjects, contactsโ€”what might she call them?โ€”of a thin and those of a rich association; of a lonely, studious life in a lovely land; of an old sorrow that sometimes ached to-day; of a feeling of pride that was perhaps exaggerated, but that had an element of nobleness; of a care for beauty and perfection so natural and so cultivated together that the career appeared to stretch beneath it in the disposed vistas and with the ranges of steps and terraces and fountains of a formal Italian gardenโ€”allowing only for arid places freshened by the natural dews of a quaint half-anxious, half-helpless fatherhood.
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Henry James
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He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting โ€œit was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.โ€ His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made with the answers I had given; then taking me into his hands, and stroking me gently, delivered himself in these words, which I shall never forget, nor the manner he spoke them in: โ€œMy little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them. I observe among you some lines of an institution, which, in its original, might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions. It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are ennobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom. As for yourself,โ€ continued the king, โ€œwho have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
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Jonathan Swift (Gulliverโ€™s Travels)
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The fact is that men encounter more complicity in their woman companions than the oppressor usually finds in the oppressed; and in bad faith they use it as a pretext to declare that woman wanted the destiny they imposed on her. We have seen that in reality her whole education conspires to bar her from paths of revolt and adventure; all of society - beginning with her respected parents - lies to her in extolling the high value of love, devotion, and the gift of self and in concealing the fact that neither lover, husband nor children will be disposed to bear the burdensome responsibility of it. She cheerfully accepts these lies because they invite her to take the easy slope: and that is the worst of the crimes committed against her; from her childhood and throughout her life, she is spoiled, she is corrupted by the fact that this resignation, tempting to any existent anxious about her freedom, is mean to be her vocation; if one encourages a child to be lazy by entertaining him all day, without giving him the occasion to study, without showing him its value, no one will say when he reaches the age of man that he chose to be incapable and ignorant; this is how the woman is raised, without ever being taught the necessity of assuming her own existence; she readily lets herself count on the protection, love, help and guidance of others; she lets herself be fascinated by the hope of being able to realise her being without doing anything. She is wrong to yield to this temptation; but the man is ill advised to reproach her for it since it is he himself who tempted her.
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Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex)
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Every week seems to bring another luxuriantly creamy envelope, the thickness of a letter-bomb, containing a complex invitation โ€“ a triumph of paper engineering โ€“ and a comprehensive dossier of phone numbers, email addresses, websites, how to get there, what to wear, where to buy the gifts. Country house hotels are being block-booked, great schools of salmon are being poached, vast marquees are appearing overnight like Bedouin tent cities. Silky grey morning suits and top hats are being hired and worn with an absolutely straight face, and the times are heady and golden for florists and caterers, string quartets and Ceilidh callers, ice sculptors and the makers of disposable cameras. Decent Motown cover-bands are limp with exhaustion. Churches are back in fashion, and these days the happy couple are travelling the short distance from the place of worship to the reception on open-topped London buses, in hot-air balloons, on the backs of matching white stallions, in micro-lite planes. A wedding requires immense reserves of love and commitment and time off work, not least from the guests. Confetti costs eight pounds a box. A bag of rice from the corner shop just wonโ€™t cut it anymore.
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David Nicholls (One Day)
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It's beyond everything what's being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He's a very intelligent fellow. And as I've told you before, I tell you again; it's not right for you not to go to the meetings, and altogether to keep out of the district business. If decent people won't go into it, of course it's bound to go all wrong. We pay the money, and it all goes in salaries, and there are no schools, not district nurses, nor midwives, nor drug-stores ---nothing [...] How can you think it a matter of no importance whether the peasant, whom you love as you assert...dies without help? The ignorant peasant-women starve the children, and the people stagnate in darkness, and are helpless in the hands of every village clerk, while you have at your disposal a means of helping them, and don't help them because to your mind it's of no importance." And Sergey Ivanovitch put before him the alternative: either you are so undeveloped that you can't see all that you can do , or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever IT is, to do it.
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Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)
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Anyway, there are two tentative solutions for getting rid of selfishness - both involving a stoic casting - off of the thin tenuous little identity which I love and cherish so dearly - and being confident that, once on the other side, I shall never miss my own little ambitions for my conceited self, but shall be content in serving the ambitions of my mate, or of a society, or cause. (Yet I will not, I cannot accept any of those solutions. Why? Stubborn selfish pride. I will not make what is inevitable easier for my-self by the blinding ignorance-is-bliss "losing-and-finding" theory. Oh, no! I will go, eyes open, into my torture, and remain fully cognizant, unwinking, while they cut and stitch and lop off my cherished malignant organs.) So much for selflove: I carry it with me like a dear cancerous relative - to be disposed of only when desperation sets in.
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Sylvia Plath
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People spoke to foreigners with an averted gaze, and everybody seemed to know somebody who had just vanished. The rumors of what had happened to them were fantastic and bizarre though, as it turned out, they were only an understatement of the real thing. Before going to see General Videla [โ€ฆ], I went to [โ€ฆ] check in with Los Madres: the black-draped mothers who paraded, every week, with pictures of their missing loved ones in the Plaza Mayo. (โ€˜Todo mi familia!โ€™ as one elderly lady kept telling me imploringly, as she flourished their photographs. โ€˜Todo mi familia!โ€™) From these and from other relatives and friends I got a line of questioning to put to the general. I would be told by him, they forewarned me, that people โ€˜disappearedโ€™ all the time, either because of traffic accidents and family quarrels or, in the dire civil-war circumstances of Argentina, because of the wish to drop out of a gang and the need to avoid oneโ€™s former associates. But this was a cover story. Most of those who disappeared were openly taken away in the unmarked Ford Falcon cars of the Buenos Aires military police. I should inquire of the general what precisely had happened to Claudia Inez Grumberg, a paraplegic who was unable to move on her own but who had last been seen in the hands of his ever-vigilant armed forces [โ€ฆ.] I possess a picture of the encounter that still makes me want to spew: there stands the killer and torturer and rape-profiteer, as if to illustrate some seminar on the banality of evil. Bony-thin and mediocre in appearance, with a scrubby moustache, he looks for all the world like a cretin impersonating a toothbrush. I am gripping his hand in a much too unctuous manner and smiling as if genuinely delighted at the introduction. Aching to expunge this humiliation, I waited while he went almost pedantically through the predicted script, waving away the rumored but doubtless regrettable dematerializations that were said to be afflicting his fellow Argentines. And then I asked him about Senorita Grumberg. He replied that if what I had said was true, then I should remember that โ€˜terrorism is not just killing with a bomb, but activating ideas. Maybe thatโ€™s why sheโ€™s detained.โ€™ I expressed astonishment at this reply and, evidently thinking that I hadnโ€™t understood him the first time, Videla enlarged on the theme. โ€˜We consider it a great crime to work against the Western and Christian style of life: it is not just the bomber but the ideologist who is the danger.โ€™ Behind him, I could see one or two of his brighter staff officers looking at me with stark hostility as they realized that the generalโ€”El Presidenteโ€”had made a mistake by speaking so candidly. [โ€ฆ] In response to a follow-up question, Videla crassly deniedโ€”โ€˜rotondamenteโ€™: โ€˜roundlyโ€™ deniedโ€”holding Jacobo Timerman โ€˜as either a journalist or a Jew.โ€™ While we were having this surreal exchange, here is what Timerman was being told by his taunting tormentors: Argentina has three main enemies: Karl Marx, because he tried to destroy the Christian concept of society; Sigmund Freud, because he tried to destroy the Christian concept of the family; and Albert Einstein, because he tried to destroy the Christian concept of time and space. [โ€ฆ] We later discovered what happened to the majority of those who had been held and tortured in the secret prisons of the regime. According to a Navy captain named Adolfo Scilingo, who published a book of confessions, these broken victims were often destroyed as โ€˜evidenceโ€™ by being flown out way over the wastes of the South Atlantic and flung from airplanes into the freezing water below. Imagine the fun element when thereโ€™s the surprise bonus of a Jewish female prisoner in a wheelchair to be disposed ofโ€ฆ we slide open the door and get ready to roll her and then itโ€™s one, two, threeโ€ฆ go!
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Christopher Hitchens (Hitch 22: A Memoir)
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It is foolish to wish for beauty.ย  Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others.ย  If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.ย  So said the teachers of our childhood; and so say we to the children of the present day.ย  All very judicious and proper, no doubt; but are such assertions supported by actual experience? We are naturally disposed to love what gives us pleasure, and what more pleasing than a beautiful faceโ€”when we know no harm of the possessor at least?ย  A little girl loves her birdโ€”Why?ย  Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless?ย  A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.ย  If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind: if, on the other hand, she is disagreeable in person and character, her plainness is commonly inveighed against as her greatest crime, because, to common observers, it gives the greatest offence; while, if she is plain and good, provided she is a person of retired manners and secluded life, no one ever knows of her goodness, except her immediate connections.ย  Others, on the contrary, are disposed to form unfavourable opinions of her mind, and disposition, if it be but to excuse themselves for their instinctive dislike of one so unfavoured by nature; and visa versรข with her whose angel form conceals a vicious heart, or sheds a false, deceitful charm over defects and foibles that would not be tolerated in another.ย 
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Anne Brontรซ (Agnes Grey)
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As for my division of people into ordinary and extraordinary, I acknowledge that itโ€™s somewhat arbitrary, but I donโ€™t insist upon exact numbers. I only believe in my leading idea that men are in general divided by a law of nature into two categories, inferior (ordinary), that is, so to say, material that serves only to reproduce its kind, and men who have the gift or the talent to utter a new word. There are, of course, innumerable sub- divisions, but the distinguishing features of both categories are fairly well marked. The first category, generally speaking, are men conservative in temperament and law-abiding; they live under control and love to be controlled. To my thinking it is their duty to be controlled, because thatโ€™s their vocation, and there is nothing humiliating in it for them. The second category all transgress the law; they are destroyers or disposed to destruction according to their capacities. The crimes of these men are of course relative and varied; for the most part they seek in very varied ways the destruction of the present for the sake of the better. But if such a one is forced for the sake of his idea to step over a corpse or wade through blood, he can, I maintain, find within himself, in his conscience, a sanction for wading through bloodโ€”that depends on the idea and its dimensions, note that. Itโ€™s only in that sense I speak of their right to crime in my article (you remember it began with the legal question). Thereโ€™s no need for such anxiety, however; the masses will scarcely ever admit this right, they punish them or hang them (more or less), and in doing so fulfil quite justly their conservative vocation. But the same masses set these criminals on a pedestal in the next generation and worship them (more or less). The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal. Each class has an equal right to exist. In fact, all have equal rights with meโ€”and vive la guerre รฉternelleโ€”till the New Jerusalem, of course!
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The repeated attempts that have been made to improve humanity - in particular to make it more peacable - have failed, because nobody has understood the full depth and vigour of the instincts of aggression innate in each individual. Such efforts do not seek to do more than encourage the positive, well-wishing impulses of the person while denying or suppressing his aggressive ones. And so they have been doomed to failure from the beginning. But psychoanalysis has different means at its disposal for a task of this kind. It cannot, it is true, altogether do away with man's aggressive instinct as such; but it can, by diminishing the anxiety which accentuates those instincts, break up the mutual reinforcement that is going on all the time between his hatred and his fear. When, in our analytic work, we are always seeing how the resolution of early infantile anxiety not only lessens and modifies the child's aggressive impulses, but leads to a more valuable employment and gratification of them from a social point of view; how the child shows an ever-grwing, deeply rooted desire to be loved and to love, and to be at peace with the world about it; and how much pleasure and benefit, and what a lessening of anxiety it derives from the fulfilment of this desire - when we see all this, we are ready to believe that what now would seem a Utopian state of things may well come true in those distant days when, as I hope, child-analysis will become as much a part of every person's upbringing as school-education is now. Then, perhaps, that hostile attitude, springing from fear and suspicion, which is latent more or less strongly in each human being, and which intensifies a hundredfold in him every impulse of destruction, will give way to kindlier and more trustful feelings towards his fellowmen, and people may inhabit the world together in greater peace and goodwill than they do now.
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Melanie Klein (Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Other Works 1921-1945 (The Writings of Melanie Klein, Volume 1))
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The Heiligenstadt Testament" Oh! ye who think or declare me to be hostile, morose, and misanthropical, how unjust you are, and how little you know the secret cause of what appears thus to you! My heart and mind were ever from childhood prone to the most tender feelings of affection, and I was always disposed to accomplish something great. But you must remember that six years ago I was attacked by an incurable malady, aggravated by unskillful physicians, deluded from year to year, too, by the hope of relief, and at length forced to the conviction of a lasting affliction (the cure of which may go on for years, and perhaps after all prove impracticable). Born with a passionate and excitable temperament, keenly susceptible to the pleasures of society, I was yet obliged early in life to isolate myself, and to pass my existence in solitude. If I at any time resolved to surmount all this, oh! how cruelly was I again repelled by the experience, sadder than ever, of my defective hearing! โ€” and yet I found it impossible to say to others: Speak louder; shout! for I am deaf! Alas! how could I proclaim the deficiency of a sense which ought to have been more perfect with me than with other men, โ€” a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, to an extent, indeed, that few of my profession ever enjoyed! Alas, I cannot do this! Forgive me therefore when you see me withdraw from you with whom I would so gladly mingle. My misfortune is doubly severe from causing me to be misunderstood. No longer can I enjoy recreation in social intercourse, refined conversation, or mutual outpourings of thought. Completely isolated, I only enter society when compelled to do so. I must live like art exile. In company I am assailed by the most painful apprehensions, from the dread of being exposed to the risk of my condition being observed. It was the same during the last six months I spent in the country. My intelligent physician recommended me to spare my hearing as much as possible, which was quite in accordance with my present disposition, though sometimes, tempted by my natural inclination for society, I allowed myself to be beguiled into it. But what humiliation when any one beside me heard a flute in the far distance, while I heard nothing, or when others heard a shepherd singing, and I still heard nothing! Such things brought me to the verge of desperation, and well-nigh caused me to put an end to my life. Art! art alone deterred me. Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce? And thus I spared this miserable life โ€” so utterly miserable that any sudden change may reduce me at any moment from my best condition into the worst. It is decreed that I must now choose Patience for my guide! This I have done. I hope the resolve will not fail me, steadfastly to persevere till it may please the inexorable Fates to cut the thread of my life. Perhaps I may get better, perhaps not. I am prepared for either. Constrained to become a philosopher in my twenty-eighth year! This is no slight trial, and more severe on an artist than on any one else. God looks into my heart, He searches it, and knows that love for man and feelings of benevolence have their abode there! Oh! ye who may one day read this, think that you have done me injustice, and let any one similarly afflicted be consoled, by finding one like himself, who, in defiance of all the obstacles of Nature, has done all in his power to be included in the ranks of estimable artists and men. My brothers Carl and [Johann], as soon as I am no more, if Professor Schmidt be still alive, beg him in my name to describe my malady, and to add these pages to the analysis of my disease, that at least, so far as possible, the world may be reconciled to me after my death. I also hereby declare you both heirs of my small fortune (if so it may be called). Share it fairly, agree together and assist each other. You know that any
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Every action is a losing, a letting go, a passing away from oneself of some bit of oneโ€™s own reality into the existence of others and of the world. In Jesus Christ, this character of action is not resisted, by trying to use our action to assert ourselves, extend ourselves, to impose our will and being upon situations. In Jesus Christ, this self-expending character of action is joyfully affirmed. I receive myself constantly from Godโ€™s Parenting love. But so far as some aspects of myself are at my disposal, these I receive to give away. Those who would live as Jesus didโ€”who would act and purpose themselves as Jesus didโ€”mean to love, i.e., they mean to expend themselves for others unto death. Their being is meant to pass away from them to others, and they make that meaning the conscious direction of their existence. Too often the love which is proclaimed in the churches suppresses this element of loss and need and death in activity. As a Christian, I often speak of love as helping others, but I ignore what this does to the person who loves. I ignore the fact that love is self-expenditure, a real expending and losing and deterioration of the self. I speak of love as if the person loving had no problems, no needs, no limits. In other words, I speak of love as if the affluent dream were true. This kind of proclamation is heard everywhere. We hear it said: 'Since you have no unanswered needs, why donโ€™t you go out and help those other people who are in need?' But we never hear people go on and add: 'If you do this, you too will be driven into need.' And by not stating this conclusion, people give the childish impression that Christian love is some kind of cornucopia, where we can reach to everybodyโ€™s needs and problems and still have everything we need for ourselves. Believe me, there are grown-up persons who speak this kind of nonsense. And when people try to live out this illusory love, they become terrified when the self-expending begins to take its toll. Terror of relationship is [that] we eat each other. But note this very carefully: like Jesus, we too can only live to give our received selves away freely because we know our being is not thereby ended, but still and always lies in the Parenting of our God.... Those who love in the name of Jesus Christ... serve the needs of others willingly, even to the point of being exposed in their own neediness.... They do not cope with their own needs. They do not anguish over how their own needs may be met by the twists and turns of their circumstances, by the whims of their society, or by the strategies of their own egos. At the center of their lifeโ€”the very innermost centerโ€”they are grateful to God, because... they do not fear neediness. That is what frees them to serve the needy, to companion the needy, to become and be one of the needy.
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Arthur C. McGill (Dying Unto Life (Theological Fascinations))
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But now I speculate re the ants' invisible organ of aggregate thought... if, in a city park of broad reaches, winding paths, roadways, and lakes, you can imagine seeing on a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon the random and unpredictable movement of great numbers of human beings in the same way... if you watch one person, one couple, one family, a child, you can assure yourself of the integrity of the individual will and not be able to divine what the next moment will bring. But when the masses are celebrating a beautiful day in the park in a prescribed circulation of activities, the wider lens of thought reveals nothing errant, nothing inconstant or unnatural to the occasion. And if someone acts in a mutant un-park manner, alarms go off, the unpredictable element, a purse snatcher, a gun wielder, is isolated, surrounded, ejected, carried off as waste. So that while we are individually and privately dyssynchronous, moving in different ways, for different purposes, in different directions, we may at the same time comprise, however blindly, the pulsing communicating cells of an urban over-brain. The intent of this organ is to enjoy an afternoon in the park, as each of us street-grimy urbanites loves to do. In the backs of our minds when we gather for such days, do we know this? How much of our desire to use the park depends on the desires of others to do the same? How much of the idea of a park is in the genetic invitation on nice days to reflect our massive neuromorphology? There is no central control mechanism telling us when and how to use the park. That is up to us. But when we do, our behavior there is reflective, we can see more of who we are because of the open space accorded to us, and it is possible that it takes such open space to realize in simple form the ordinary identity we have as one multicellular culture of thought that is always there, even when, in the comparative blindness of our personal selfhood, we are flowing through the streets at night or riding under them, simultaneously, as synaptic impulses in the metropolitan brain. Is this a stretch? But think of the contingent human mind, how fast it snaps onto the given subject, how easily it is introduced to an idea, an image that it had not dreamt of thinking of a millisecond before... Think of how the first line of a story yokes the mind into a place, a time, in the time it takes to read it. How you can turn on the radio and suddenly be in the news, and hear it and know it as your own mind's possession in the moment's firing of a neuron. How when you hear a familiar song your mind adopts its attitudinal response to life before the end of the first bar. How the opening credits of a movie provide the parameters of your emotional life for its ensuing two hours... How all experience is instantaneous and instantaneously felt, in the nature of ordinary mind-filling revelation. The permeable mind, contingently disposed for invasion, can be totally overrun and occupied by all the characteristics of the world, by everything that is the case, and by the thoughts and propositions of all other minds considering everything that is the case... as instantly and involuntarily as the eye fills with the objects that pass into its line of vision.
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E.L. Doctorow (City of God)
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That is why the second coming of the Lord is not only salvation, not only the omega that sets everything right, but also judgment. Indeed at this stage we can actually define the meaning of the talk of judgment. It means precisely this, that the final stage of the world is not the result of a natural current but the result of responsibility that is grounded in freedom. This must be regarded as the key to understanding why the New Testament clings fast, in spite of its message of grace, to the assertion that at the end men are judged "by their works" and that no one can escape giving an account of the way he has lived his life. There is a freedom that is not cancelled out even by grace and, indeed, is brought by it face to face with itself: man's final fate is not forced upon him regardless of the decisions he has made in his life. This assertion is in any case also necessary in order to draw the line between faith and false dogmatism or a false Christian self-confidence. This line alone confirms the equality of men by confirming the identity of their responsibility. ... Perhaps in the last analysis it is impossible to escape a paradox whose logic is completely disclosed only to the experience of a life based on faith. Anyone who entrusts himself to a life of faith becomes aware that both exist: the radical character of grace that frees helpless man and,no less, the abiding seriousness of the responsibility that summons man day after day. Both together mean that the Christian enjoys, on the one hand, the liberating, detached tranquility of him who lives on that excess of divine justice known as Jesus Christ. ... This is the source of a profound freedom, a knowledge of God's unrepentant love; he sees through all our errors and remains well disposed to us. ... At the same time, the Christian knows, however, that he is not free to do whatever he pleases, that his activity is not a game that God allows him and does not take seriously. He knows that he must answer for his actions, that he owes an account as a steward of what has been entrusted to him. There can only be responsibility where there is someone to be responsible to, someone to put the questions. Faith in the Last Judgment holds this questioning of our life over our heads so that we cannot forget it for a moment. Nothing and no one empowers us to trivialize the tremendous seriousness involved in such knowledge; it shows our life to be a serious business and precisely by doing so gives it its dignity.
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Pope Benedict XVI (Introduction to Christianity)
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Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature of which no further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to inquire. It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither this nor any other species of contracts. Two greyhounds, in running down the same hare, have sometimes the appearance of acting in some sort of concert. Each turns her towards his companion, or endeavours to intercept her when his companion turns her towards himself. This, however, is not the effect of any contract, but of the accidental concurrence of their passions in the same object at that particular time. Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Nobody ever saw one animal by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours; I am willing to give this for that. When an animal wants to obtain something either of a man or of another animal, it has no other means of persuasion but to gain the favour of those whose service it requires. A puppy fawns upon its dam, and a spaniel endeavours by a thousand attractions to engage the attention of its master who is at dinner, when it wants to be fed by him. Man sometimes uses the same arts with his brethren, and when he has no other means of engaging them to act according to his inclinations, endeavours by every servile and fawning attention to obtain their good will. He has not time, however, to do this upon every occasion. In civilised society he stands at all times in need of the cooperation and assistance of great multitudes, while his whole life is scarce sufficient to gain the friendship of a few persons. In almost every other race of animals each individual, when it is grown up to maturity, is entirely independent, and in its natural state has occasion for the assistance of no other living creature. But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely. The charity of well-disposed people, indeed, supplies him with the whole fund of his subsistence. But though this principle ultimately provides him with all the necessaries of life which he has occasion for, it neither does nor can provide him with them as he has occasion for them. The greater part of his occasional wants are supplied in the same manner as those of other people, by treaty, by barter, and by purchase. With the money which one man gives him he purchases food. The old clothes which another bestows upon him he exchanges for other old clothes which suit him better, or for lodging, or for food, or for money, with which he can buy either food, clothes, or lodging, as he has occasion.
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Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations)