In the last two months, Mike had seen her at her worst. They’d ‘Zoomed’ through her snot-dripping crying jags of hopeless angst, and post-paper-writing-all-nighters when she hadn't taken a shower in two days and was sure she smelled all the way to Florida. When We Lost Touch
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Quote:- In the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning (for suicide): that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision. ... Alex showed me a clipping from the Cambridge Evening News. 'Tragic Death of "Promising" Young Man.' ... The verdict of the coroner's inquest had been that Adrian Flinn (22) had killed himself 'while the balance of his mind was disturbed.' ... The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself. Perhaps those authorities feared that the suicide's reasoning might impugn the nature and value of life as organised by the state which paid the coroner?
The Sense of an Ending
Author:- Julian Barnes
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In the light of the bathroom, I see lines on my face. They almost look like scars except I've never been cut by anything but time.
Find Me
Author:- Laura van den Berg
Category:- time
Quote:- In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
The Book of Tea
Author:- Kakuzo Okakura
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.
Lima Nights
Author:- Marie Arana
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- In the mainstream, with its illusion of unlimited relational possibilities, we can counter dissatisfaction in relationships by simply moving on in search of the "right people." But community...demands we cultivate friendships with people we might not choose ordinarily. Founding friendship on commitment rather than "chemistry" often requires adjustment...At the end of the day, however, we have found that any loss of chemistry in relationships is more than made up for with gains in meaning.
Author:- Jose Panate-Aceves and John Hayes
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- In the meantime, I’llwish it upon a star.'- Michael Cooper
In the Middle of Nowhere
Author:- Julie Ann Knudsen
Category:- hope
Quote:- In the middle of life, death comesto take your measurements. The visitis forgotten and life goes on. But the suitis being sewn on the sly.
The Deleted World
Author:- Tomas Tranströmer
Category:- poetry
Quote:- In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!
Author:- Mehmet Murat ildan
Category:- hope
Quote:- In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.
Jack and Jill
Author:- Louisa May Alcott
Category:- hope
Quote:- In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Author:- Leo Tolstoy
Category:- hope
Quote:- In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.
The Panopticon Writings
Author:- Jeremy Bentham
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In the mind of an ordinary, 1+1 = 2; but, in the mind of an extraordinary, 1+ 1 = 10.
Author:- Joey Lawsin
Category:- science
Quote:- In the modern world, there is a tendency to be required to surrender one's life more and more, giving autonomy over personal destiny to others and society.
Life Is A Circus
Author:- Steven Redhead
Category:- Life
Quote:- In the moment between sleep and wakeI kiss my blanketKissing you goodbye
Finding Identity
Author:- Silenus
Category:- best
Quote:- In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.
Walden
Author:- Henry David Thoreau
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
Author:- Susan Neiman
Category:- philosophy