When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
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Quote:- When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
The Alchemist
Author:- Paulo Coelho
Category:- hope,inspiration
Quote:- When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?
Author:- jay woodman
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- When we mentally give a person, place, or point in time more credit than ourselves, we create a fictitious ceiling. A restriction over the expectations that we have over our own performance in that moment. We get tense. We focus on the outcome instead of the activity and we miss the doing of the deed. We either think the world depends on the result or it's too good to be true. But it doesn't and it isn't. And it's not our right to believe it does or is. Don't create imaginary constraints. A leading role, a blue ribbon, a winning score, a great idea, the love of our life, euphoric bliss... Who are we to think we don't deserve these fortunes when they're in our grasp? Who are we to think we haven't earned them? If we stay and process within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line. Why? Because we're not thinking of the finish line. We're not looking at the clock. We’re not watching ourselves on the Jumbotron performing. We are performing in real time where the approach is the destination.
Greenlights
Author:- Matthew McConaughey
Category:- motivational
Quote:- When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasure we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives. We believe that the untried soul, trapped in its young prison, might have flown free and known the joy that we still seek.
Damage
Author:- Josephine Hart
Category:- time
Quote:- When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same time not here because we're already in the process of going elsewhere, if you see what I mean. To stop de-structuring yourself, you have to stop moving altogether. Either you move and you're no longer whole, or you're whole and you can't move.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Author:- Muriel Barbery
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Author:- bell hooks
Category:- hope
Quote:- When we pray we admit defeat.
The Wanting Seed
Author:- Anthony Burgess
Category:- motivational
Quote:- When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid.
Essays and Aphorisms
Author:- arthur schopenhauer
Category:- science
Quote:- When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Author:- Steve Maraboli
Category:- motivational,Relationships
Quote:- When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch!
Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy
Author:- Felix Alba-Juez
Category:- science,philosophy
Quote:- When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When we see a good-looking man with a not-so-good-looking woman, we assume that she must be good in bed.
Author:- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- When we see beauty, we’re seeing a part of ourselves, a reflection in time. Ask me the time, Zara.What time is it?It’s perhaps a time.Perhaps a time, what kind of a time is perhaps a time? Zara asks, somewhat curiously amused.The ‘that’ part, that’s the part of the kind of ‘perhaps a time’ we’re talking about.What’s the ‘that’ part?It’s the part found in anytime.Anytime? A confused look knits on Zara’s brow.Yes, ‘perhaps a time’ is ‘anytime’, but you need a place, ‘anyplace’ to find anytime.Anyplace to find anytime? Do you have any idea how mad you sound?Oh, it’s such a colorful thing this void of mine. It’s all sparkly, fluffy and light, twinned with the inevitability of life. Besides, I only sound mad when I’m ‘anywhere’, dear.Where the hell is anywhere? Zara asks, this time very confused.Sometimes it’s up, sometimes it’s down. Anywhere oh anywhere a place we sow confusion all around.
Author:- J.L. Haynes
Category:- time
Quote:- When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye.
Sophie's World
Author:- Jostein Gaarder
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- When we share our naked body, our money and our financial future, the range of our good and bad emotions, our dearest dreams and most painful memories, our trembling fears, our fragile hopes, and our sweetest and most touching joys, the relationship cannot be anything other than a uniquely powerful human opportunity. It will hold the capacity to hurt and heal in an unparalleled way. It is a unique gift to ourselves, and it is a unique gift to the other.
Love's Longing
Author:- Donna Goddard
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- When we think of our old lovers, and the people they are with now, we wonder what we did not have. We wonder collectively, as people, what other people have. A collective unconscious is formed, a cloud, and we laze around it and lie to each other. We tell each other we are better than one another, better than whoever he is with now. We tell it to each other, because we are well-meaning people. We tell it to each other in friendship.
So Sad Today: Personal Essays
Author:- Melissa Broder
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- When we trust our own gut and intuition things work out in greater flow.
Author:- Felicia Miracle Hankins
Category:- Life
Quote:- When We Two PartedWhen we two partedIn silence and tears,Half broken-heartedTo sever for years,Pale grew thy cheek and cold,Colder thy kiss;Truly that hour foretoldSorrow to this.The dew of the morningSunk chill on my brow—It felt like the warningOf what I feel now.Thy vows are all broken,And light is thy fame:I hear thy name spoken,And share in its shame.They name thee before me,A knell to mine ear;A shudder comes o'er me—Why wert thou so dear?They know not I knew thee,Who knew thee too well:Long, long shall I rue thee,Too deeply to tell.In secret we met—In silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years,How should I greet thee?With silence and tears.
Poetical Works
Author:- George Gordon Byron
Category:- poetry