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“The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

War, Fight

“Some guy hit my car fender the other day, and I said unto him, "Be fruitful and multiply."”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

But not in those words.
The Woody Allen Companion (1993) edited by StephenJ. Spignesi, Ch. 7.

Cars, Guy

“Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Love, Personality

“The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

Children, Time, Heart, Hurt

“Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923) American writer

Life, World, Beauty, Star

“The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear…”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

Nature

“Shall I call the others back in?"
He nodded. "Why ask me? It's all of you who are making the decisions.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

Decision

“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Wisdom, Thinking

“To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.”

Gail Carson Levine Fairest

Source: Fairest

“We suffer each other to have each other a while.”

Li-Young Lee (1957) American writer

Suffering

“Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Peace, Time, Peaceful

“But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there and your old droog Alex all on his oddy knocky seeking like a mate. And all that cal. A terrible grahzny vonny world, really, O my brothers. And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

World, Music, Star, Flowers

“Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Love, Kiss, Time

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”

Susan Sontag book On Photography

"Melancholy Objects", p. 57
On Photography (1977)

People, Reality

“What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Hell

“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.”

Alison Goodman (1966) Australian science-fiction writer

Source: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

Life, Truth, Lie, Way

“You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“… she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader

Life, Reading

“When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Love, World, Effort, Personality

“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.”

Nathaniel Branden (1930–2014) Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer

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I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Feeling, Strong

“Travel opens your mind as few other things do.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

Travel

“We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: On Love

“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Love, Time

“There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

World, Beauty, Feeling

“Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

World

“A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.”

E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“When life is hard, remember - we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

Life, Way

“Sometimes you meet a girl and it's like matter and antimatter. You just hate each other for no damn reason.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Jealousy

Hate, Girl

“I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers…”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

People, Imagination, Question

“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

People, Way

“If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.”

Toni Bentley (1958) Australian writer

Lovers, Idea, Clothes

“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

As quoted in the United States of America Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 105th Congress Second Session, Government Printing Office, Vol. 144, Part 4, p. 5738 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nEI6WcjH8ykC&pg=PA5738 <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955)

People, Horse

“What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.”

Vikram Seth book An Equal Music

Source: An Equal Music

Love, Life

“A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

Life, Time

“If there is love enough, then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

Love, Death, Nature

“I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Hate, People, Imagination, Girl

“Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

Art

“Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?”

Stephen Fry book Making History

Source: Making History

“We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are… you have to choose.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Secret

“Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

Light, Sun

“Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Time

“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Learning, Teachers

“Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Love, Wisdom, Happiness, Justice

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)

Chance, Personality

“And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.”

Meg Cabot book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

Help

“There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.”

Stephen King book Rage

Source: Rage

Happiness

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

Soul, Teachers, Faith

“Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have -- forget sex -- because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each other's eyes, it's brain-to-brain.”

Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Source: Hey Nostradamus!

People, Sex, Forgetting

“Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.”

Dick Francis (1920–2010) English jockey and crime writer

Source: To the Hilt (1996)

“He was standing leaning against the door frame; now he stood up straight. "How should I have kissed you? Is there an other way you like it?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Way, Kiss

“Keep your lips and other body parts to yourself or you’ll be headless. (Apollymi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Parting

“Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed.
But one can be converted into the other.”

Spider Robinson book Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

Source: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1977) "Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy"

Pain, Law, Joy

“There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.”

George MacDonald book The Princess and Curdie

Source: The Princess and Curdie

“A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

Variant: One woman I was dating called and said, 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

Home, Girl

“She had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each one of them from the other.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

World, Effort

“Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Books, Way, Light

“Just between you and me and the lamppost, Dylan could easily begirl's perfect other half. If I didn't alreadya perfect other half, I might have been thrilled with the gift of my very own gorgeous mutant.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Perfection

“A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.”

Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

Dreams, Disappointment

“People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

People

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Love, People

“I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Thinking

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”

Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) Italian poet, philosopher and writer

Way, Knowledge

“If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.”

Sarah McLachlan (1968) Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter

Source: Plenty: A Collection of Sarah McLachlan's Favorite Recipes

Life, People

“Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)”

Edith Hamilton book Mythology

Source: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Love, Soul

“We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

Source: Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims

“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist

“Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.”

George Balanchine (1904–1983) Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983)

Time

“Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 254

Pain, People, Madness

“I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened".”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny

People, Study, Reading

“You'll use it [Perrin's axe], boy, and as long as you hate using it, you would use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Elyas Machera
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World

Men, Hate, Way, Boy

“Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.”

Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author

Source: The Whole Woman

Beauty, Failure

“I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic

People, Feeling, Sense, Help

“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

People, Personality

“It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not
to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is
against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.”

George Sheehan Irish footballer

Idea, Understanding, Learning

“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Forgiveness, Learning, Past

“Learn from the mistakes of others you won't have time to make them all your self”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Simply Irresistible

Learning, Time

“Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Star

“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Life, Books, Soul

“It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Fools

“Um, thanks,” she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn’t to say Rose wasn’t a sucker for accents. She just preferred hers from the other side of Europe.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

“I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)
Source: What Then Must We Do?

“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Life, Death, People, Time

“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Men, Flying

“The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

"The Cow".
Source: Free Wheeling (1931)

“All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

Men, Freedom, Animals

“It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Evil

“You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love, Life, People

“Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Feeling

“I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!”

Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XII : A Tête-à-tête and a Discovery; Gilbert to Helen
Context: You couldn't have given me less encouragement, or treated me with greater severity than you did! And if you think you have wronged me by giving me your friendship, and occasionally admitting to me to the enjoyment of your company and conversation, when all hopes of close intimacy were vain — as indeed you always gave me to understand — if you think you have wronged me by this, you are mistaken; for such favours, in themselves alone, are not only delightful to my heart, but purifying, exalting, ennobling to my soul; and I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!

Love, Friendship, World

“She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”

Dean Koontz book Lightning

Source: Lightning

Beauty

“I dreamed of a green place once,” he whispered. “A manor house and a little girl with red hair, and preparations for a wedding. If there are other worlds, then maybe there is one where I was a good brother and a good son.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

World, Dreams, Girl, Wedding

“I don’t even know what to say to you. (Acheron)
Me, either. I guess we’ll just stand here and cry at each other, huh? (Kat)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Cry

“Culture is shared meaning. Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.”

David Bohm (1917–1992) American theoretical physicist

Changing Consciousness (1991)
Context: Culture is shared meaning. Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. <!-- p. 185

“The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Source: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems

Water

“I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?"
Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Women

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