Quotes about other
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“I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.”
Source: Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
“Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability”
“You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you”
“I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.”
Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver
Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing
Source: Magic Bites
Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
Variant: when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
Source: House Rules
“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”
Source: The Price of Salt
“My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.”
Source: The Invention of Wings
Source: Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited
“I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”
Source: The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction
“As Rumi says, “We’re all just walking each other home.”
Source: Rising Strong
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.”
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them. Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
“You can, t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery
-Tyler Perry
The Family That Preys”
Variant: Are You Living or Just Existing?"
-Tyler Perry
The Family That Preys
p. 12.
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), Chapter 1: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory, p. 13-14.
Context: Recent focus on the issue of racism has generated discourse but has had little impact on the behavior of white feminists towards black women. Often the white women who are busy publishing papers and books on "unlearning racism" remain patronizing and condescending when they relate to black women. This is not surprising given that frequently their discourse is aimed solely in the direction of a white audience and the focus solely on changing attitudes rather than addressing racism in a historical and political context. They make us the "objects" of their privileged discourse on race. As "objects," we remain unequals, inferiors. Even though they may be sincerely concerned about racism, their methodology suggests they are not yet free of the type of remain intact if they are to maintain their authoritative positions.
Context: Racist stereotypes of the strong, superhuman black woman are operative myths in the minds of many white women, allowing them to ignore the extent to which black women are likely to be victimized in this society and the role white women may play in the maintenance and perpetuation of that victimization.... By projecting onto black women a mythical power and strength, white women both promote a false image of themselves as powerless, passive victims and deflect attention away from their aggressiveness, their power, (however limited in a white supremacist, male-dominated state) their willingness to dominate and control others. These unacknowledged aspects of the social status of many white women prevent them from transcending racism and limit the scope of their understanding of women's overall social status in the United States. Privileged feminists have largely been unable to speak to, with, and for diverse groups of women because they either do not understand fully the inter-relatedness of sex, race, and focus on class and gender, they tend to dismiss race or they make a point of acknowledging that race is important and then proceed to offer an analysis in which race is not considered.
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”
Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
Source: To the Blight
“We mask our needs as the needs of others.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.”
Source: Diamonds Are Forever
Source: Message in a Bottle
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.”
Source: Valley of Silence
Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Source: A Conspiracy of Kings
A Long Way from The Stuffed Cabbage (short story)
Source: 终於悲哀的外國語
Context: Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely. In my case, the stronger is the intention to "write about a particular subject in a particular way," the harder it becomes to start writing and to express myself. This stress somewhat resembles the irritation one feels when he cannot describe to another person what he experienced so vividly and realistically in his dreams. All words I use to narrate my feeling of the moment fail incessantly to describe what I wish to, and then they begin to betray me.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), as quoted in Milan Kundera (2003) by Harold Bloom, [//books.google.it/books?id=SXDojRJFMPIC&pg=PA91 p. 91]
Context: True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
“When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.”
Source: Written on the Body
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 13.
“Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.”
Source: And the Shofar Blew
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 58)
Context: I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.
But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant “to know.”
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.
“Other people’s tragedies should not be the subject of idle conversation.”
Source: Because of Winn-Dixie
Source: Dark Reunion
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
