Was it only age which made someone respect somebody? Were it only relationships? Surely not. It was something more than that. Stella - An extraordinary tale of an ordinary girl
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Quote:- Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one's perceptions, half way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh?
To the Lighthouse
Author:- Virginia Woolf
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one’s perceptions, half-way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh? Or did she lock up within her some secret which certainly Lily Briscoe believed people must have for the world to go on at all? Every one could not be as helter skelter, hand to mouth as she was. But if they knew, could they tell one what they knew? Sitting on the floor with her arms round Mrs. Ramsay’s knees, close as she could get, smiling to think that Mrs. Ramsay would never know the reason of that pressure, she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like the treasures in the tombs of kings, tablets bearing sacred inscriptions, which if one could spell them out, would teach one everything, but they would never be offered openly, never made public. What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers? What device for becoming, like waters poured into one jar, inextricably the same, one with the object one adored? Could the body achieve, or the mind, subtly mingling in the intricate passages of the brain? or the heart? Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs. Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge, she had thought, leaning her head on Mrs. Ramsay’s knee.
To the Lighthouse
Author:- Virginia Woolf
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
Orlando
Author:- Virginia Woolf
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?
Author:- Hermann Hesse
Category:- time
Quote:- WAS THIS WHAT LOVE WAS? Being happy when you thought about someone; wanting to never stop thinking abou tthem, even when you were fighting; having every damn thing in the grocery store remind you of them, from diapers to sour cream; wanting to be a better writer and friend and person because of how they were and how they made you feel; wanting to be with them, all the time, even though you kept fighting it.
The Proposal
Author:- Jasmine Guillory
Category:- Love
Quote:- Was war ein guter Mensch? Was war richtig und falsch? Das war nicht so einfach. Nichts auf der Welt hatte bloß eine Farbe. Bloß eine Antwort. Eine Perspektive.
Seelenfall
Author:- Michaela Weiß
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.
1Q84
Author:- Haruki Murakami
Category:- hope
Quote:- Waste not a second of the day, who knows if this moment will return, count each blessing of time when you dance the dance of life.
The Book of Dance
Author:- Shah Asad Rizvi
Category:- best,Life
Quote:- Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
Author:- Michael LeBoeuf
Category:- time
Quote:- Waste yourself: give yourself to others!
Author:- Venerable Fulton Sheen
Category:- Life,best
Quote:- Watch carefully the magic that occurswhen you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.
Love Her Wild
Author:- Atticus Poetry
Category:- best,poetry
Quote:- Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.
The Complete Poems
Author:- Anne Sexton
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Watch what you ask for you just might get it.
Author:- Marylin Schirmer
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Watch what you say.Stop telling lies about other people with the intention of spreading hate or character assassination.You are cursing yourself.Tomorrow you will be wondering why your things are not working out. Why you're not making it, with the qualification, connection and experience your having. Forgetting that , it is because of the karma of lies you told about other people.Proverb 18:21 | Ephesians 4:29 | Psalms 1:1
Author:- De philosopher DJ Kyos
Category:- best
Quote:- Watch your thoughts.What you are now is result of your past thinking, how you will be depends on your present thinking
Author:- Srinivart
Category:- best
Quote:- Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
The Sparrow
Author:- Mary Doria Russell
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary
Amazonia And Other Forests Of Brazil
Author:- Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes
Category:- science
Quote:- Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus paused next to one of the shining braziers, peered beneath the bronze visage that loomed orange and scowling over his father, watched him lean back into absolute shadow.You came to the world, unseen lips said, and you saw that Men were like children.Lines of radiance danced across the intervening waters.It is their nature to believe as their fathers believed, the darkness continued. To desire as they desired … Men are like wax poured into moulds: their souls are cast by their circumstances. Why are no Fanim children born to Inrithi parents? Why are no Inrithi children born to Fanim parents? Because these truths are made, cast by the particularities of circumstance. Rear an infant among Fanim and he will become Fanim. Rear him among Inrithi and he will become Inrithi …Split him in two, and he would murder himself.Without warning, the face re-emerged, water-garbled, white save the black sockets beneath his brow. The action seemed random, as though his father merely changed posture to relieve some vagrant ache, but it was not. Everything, Kellhus knew, had been premeditated. For all the changes wrought by thirty years in the Wilderness, his father remained Dûnyain …Which meant that Kellhus stood on conditioned ground.But as obvious as this is, the blurred face continued, it escapes them. Because they cannot see what comes before them, they assume nothing comes before them. Nothing. They are numb to the hammers of circumstance, blind to their conditioning. What is branded into them, they think freely chosen.So they thoughtlessly cleave to their intuitions, and curse those who dare question. They make ignorance their foundation. They confuse their narrow conditioning for absolute truth.He raised a cloth, pressed it into the pits of his eyes. When he withdrew it, two rose-coloured stains marked the pale fabric. The face slipped back into the impenetrable black.And yet part of them fears. For even unbelievers share the depth of their conviction. Everywhere, all about them, they see examples of their own self-deception … ‘Me!’ everyone cries. ‘I am chosen!’ How could they not fear when they so resemble children stamping their feet in the dust? So they encircle themselves with yea-sayers, and look to the horizon for confirmation, for some higher sign that they are as central to the world as they are to themselves.He waved his hand out, brought his palm to his bare breast. And they pay with the coin of their devotion.
The Thousandfold Thought
Author:- R. Scott Bakker
Category:- philosophy