When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. But you’ve loads of shoes, he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head sadly. Men just don’t get it, do they? They’re definitely missing the shoe chromosome. Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities
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Quote:- When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.
Socratic Logic
Author:- Peter Kreeft
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- When I say life, I don’t mean just breathing and staying alive. I mean being alive at the innermost being level, as a live Consciousness. If you can express love, if you can experience love, that is the only way of being alive as a Consciousness.
Author:- Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.
Author:- Susan Blackmore
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonderful that it seems as if a child could reach it in a summer's day. And so a child could. But with me and such as me it is different. One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. It is so difficult to keep 'heights that the soul is competent to gain.' We think in eternity, but we move slowly through time; and how slowly time goes with us who lie in prison I need not tell again, nor of the weariness and despair that creep back into one's cell, and into the cell of one's heart, with such strange insistence that one has, as it were, to garnish and sweep one's house for their coming, as for an unwelcome guest, or a bitter master, or a slave whose slave it is one's chance or choice to be.
de Profundis, the Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Other Poetry
Author:- Oscar Wilde
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- When I say that I love animals, I mean to say that I am IN love with them. Because they don't know evil and have never been tempted by it. Because they are the purest image of any higher being I have ever known. Because their souls are made of a much larger magic than my own, and if you let them, they will show it to you. Because this world is theirs, they were here first. And we should all love them a little more for graciously allowing us to have so much of it.
Author:- Mia Hollow
Category:- poetry
Quote:- When I see broken pieces of heart & soul words are wildly distributed in the society. I want to run, run faster. I want to hug my husband tightly. I want close my eyes. I want disappear in his body. I don’t want to leave him for a second. I’m scared to the outer world where there is lack of kindness. When he takes my face in his hands & look at my watery eyes, I realize the need of our life. Need to go outside for ourselves. Need to go outside to justify our investment in terms of education, time & mainly as human. His eyes say, we are the part of society, if we will get scared by the society, we’ll never meet the good factors in the society. We have to contribute our positive sides to society. If you know you are not that what you have faced, you better know who you are. Just start. Try to start. Give me your hand & step forward with smile & see who did it? Only you did it!
Author:- Sonal Takalkar
Category:- motivational
Quote:- When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.
Author:- Blaise Pascal
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- When I sit up I am greeted by the world. Level with the treetops I look down on sparrows swooping in and out of the branches. The tide, the new rising moon, the clouds, the wind - these greet me. These are my allies. The whole planet is laid out before me and available for whatever adventure the day will take me on. By comparison, living in society seems to require an alarm clock. Primarily assembled from angst and fish anuses, these contraptions, regardless of your soul's whereabouts, will slap and assault you into a pitiful state of what passes for consciousness. Your first sight is the Time, an arragement of molecules on the clock's face to whom you will be enslaved for the rest of the day. You may as well call him "master." Next, a pile of dirty clothes on the floor, a knocked-over glass of water, and so forth, until you are so overwhelmed with despair that to prevent hurling yourself through the window, you must ignore your personal bill of rights, put on an acceptable frown, and go about your business, disregarding the pleas from you increasingly timid soul.
On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave
Author:- Daniel Hays
Category:- time
Quote:- When I started investing in domains, there were a bunch of 3 letters and 4 letters domain available and many other categories of domains were also available, but I believed only in brandable domains and that's why my portfolio had only brandable domains
Author:- Anuj Jasani
Category:- motivational
Quote:- When I started training myself in Neurobiology, Psychology and Theology, mostly on the streets of Calcutta, at the book kiosks on the sidewalk, for I had no money to buy the books, I had no academic background - no college degree - no potential for earning a decent living - I was a direction-less canoe in the open sea. I did not come from a rich or learned family, nor did I have rich friends, so, as far as everybody else was concerned, my life was doomed. I come from the humblest of origins - like did Ramanujan, like did Tesla, like did many more legendary thinkers of human history. I didn't know the rules of academia - I didn't know the laws and the norms of the scientific community - all I knew was that I had to understand the humans if I were to unite them. Other than that, I had no clue to my future. I learnt by failing - I learnt by making errors - I learnt by moving slowly but surely, and by never losing my sense of awe. And that's really what science is about - it's about naivety, curiosity and awe.
Mission Reality
Author:- Abhijit Naskar
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- When I stop eating certain things, I feel so much better. I notice the same when I stop dealing with certain people.
Author:- Steve Maraboli
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- When I stripped off all the labels, I was a person who had the right to pursue a life of purpose that was in alignment with my core values.
Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
Author:- Ranjani Rao
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- When I think how sometimes people can be brave enough to overcome any fear, any hardship, it gives me a feeling I can hardly describe. To charge right at the things that are painful and difficult, break through to the other side, and take pleasure in that - don't you think that's truly fantastic? The greater the suffering, the greater the joy in overcoming it.
How Do You Live?
Author:- Genzaburo Yoshino
Category:- motivational
Quote:- When I think of establishing a network, it’s like I’m looking down at a map of a nation- a nation that I’ve created.
Ouch!: A memoir with a twist…
Author:- Chaker Khazaal
Category:- motivational
Quote:- When I think of you I feel fragrance When I think of our conversations,I feel aliveMy days smile And my nights sparkleLast night When I crashed into My stupid, empty bed,I took off all your inhibitionsFrom the realm of surrealismAnd I surrendered my soul To your soul!
Author:- Avijeet Das
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- When I throw back my head and howlPeople (women mostly) sayBut you've always done what you want, You always get your way- A perfectly vile and foulInversion of all that's been.What the old ratbags meanIs I've never done what I don't.So the shit in the shuttered chateauWho does his five hundred wordsThen parts out the rest of the dayBetween bathing and booze and birdsIs far off as ever, but soIs that spectacled schoolteaching sod(Six kids, and the wife in pod, And her parents coming to stay)...Life is an immobile, locked, Three-handed struggle betweenYour wants, the world's for you, and (worse)The unbeatable slow machineThat brings what you'll get. Blocked, They strain round a hollow stasisOf havings-to, fear, faces.Days sift down it constantly. Years.--The Life with the Hole in It
Philip Larkin Poetry
Author:- Philip Larkin
Category:- poetry
Quote:- When I touch you softly and feel you react, I am pretty afraid to continue. We can create such perfect moments, and I am entirely yours. Perfection is rare in this fast food, work-a-day world, and I am afraid to lose something so beautiful and perfect. However, when you start kissing back, accepting, I know how God must have felt after he had created Eve for Adam. You are my life, my soul, and my Garden.
Author:- Allison Church
Category:- Love