In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. Earthly Powers
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Quote:- In a sudden and soundless eruption, as if he has fallen into a waking dream, a stream of images pours down, images of women he has known on two continents, some from so far away in time that he barely recognizes them. Like leaves blown on the wind, pell-mell, they pass before him. A fair field full of folk: hundreds of lives all tangled with his. He holds his breath, willing the vision to continue.What has happened to them, all those women, all those lives? Are there moments when they too, or some of them, are plunged without warning into the ocean of memory? The German girl: is it possible that at this very instant she is remembering the man who picked her up on the roadside in Africa and spent the night with her? Enriched: that was the word the newspapers picked on to jeer at. A stupid word to let slip, under the circumstances, yet now, at this moment, he would stand by it. By Melanie, by the girl in Touws River; by Rosalind, Bev Shaw, Soraya: by each of them he was enriched, and by the others too, even the least of them, even the failures. Like a flower blooming in his breast, his heart floods with thankfulness.
Disgrace
Author:- J.M. Coetzee
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- In a time when I need a little hope I look at a photo of where I call home and think of the moment I'll have when I go back with my trials and struggles carried in a box able to be let free and turn into achievements and happiness.
Author:- Cassandra Shea
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible, but not to be inspected. [...] It is clear that none of these versions can be accounted for in purely utilitarian terms: each involves a certain ideological perception of how the subject should relate to excrement. Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German conservatism, French revolutionary radicalism and English liberalism. [...] The point about toilets is that they enable us not only to discern this triad in the most intimate domain, but also to identify its underlying mechanism in the three different attitudes towards excremental excess: an ambiguous contemplative fascination; a wish to get rid of it as fast as possible; a pragmatic decision to treat it as ordinary and dispose of it in an appropriate way. It is easy for an academic at a round table to claim that we live in a post-ideological universe, but the moment he visits the lavatory after the heated discussion, he is again knee-deep in ideology.
The Plague of Fantasies
Author:- Slavoj Žižek
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Author:- Daniel Goleman
Category:- science
Quote:- In a village people were happy eating rice and vegetables. Then somebody started coming every morning to distribute sweets. Now villagers are happy only in the morning when they get sweets. Rest of the time they remain depressed. The sweets of hope and positivity and motivation being distributed everywhere are actually causing anxiety and depression.
Author:- Shunya
Category:- motivational,hope
Quote:- In a war between customers and the company, customers might lose the fight due to the difference of powers, but the company is the ultimate loser.
Quantraz
Author:- Sukant Ratnakar
Category:- motivational
Quote:- In a way it's not bad to realize that things can never be the same again.
Author:- Garima Soni - words world
Category:- Life,best
Quote:- In a way, yes,’ said Jack and handed the peeled clementine over to the squire, then took another one for himself. ‘But some of us are wealthier than others – just look at your house and your valley, and your horses. And your wisdom.’‘My wisdom?’‘You know things.’‘And you? Don't you know things?’‘Yes,’ said Jack, sharply drawing in the air, ‘I know things. Everyone knows some things. But I wish you'd share some of your wisdom with me as graciously as your food.’‘Wisdom is not the same as knowing things, my boy, and I am not wise.
The First Tale of the Tinners' Rabbits
Author:- Chiara Kilian
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.
Burned
Author:- Ellen Hopkins
Category:- hope
Quote:- In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.
Great Expectations
Author:- Charles Dickens
Category:- Love
Quote:- In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Author:- Michael Jackson
Category:- hope
Quote:- In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
The River of Winged Dreams
Author:- Aberjhani
Category:- poetry
Quote:- In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them?
Foe
Author:- J.M. Coetzee
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In a world of shallowness and narcissism motivation is yet another commodity that can be gift-wrapped and sold to all those suckers who are just begging to be ripped off.
High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
Author:- Abhijit Naskar
Category:- motivational
Quote:- In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.
Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
Author:- Richelle Goodrich
Category:- hope
Quote:- In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?
Author:- Bruce Sterling
Category:- inspiration