LaHermes Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 "“His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.” ― James Joyce, The Dead" The story is set in the festive season and makes a great read at this time of year. Link to comment
LaHermes Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 "Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." Aldous Huxley 1 Link to comment
mylolita Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita Link to comment
mylolita Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 “Brains! Are you kidding? She hasn’t got any goddam brains! She’s an animal!” The gray-haired man, his nostrils dilating, appeared to take a fairy deep breath. “We’re all animals,” he said. “Basically, we’re all animals.” “Like hell we are. I’m no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a b***h, but I’m no animal. Don’t gimme that. I’m no animal.” J.D.Salinger - Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes Link to comment
LaHermes Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.” ― Brené Brown 2 Link to comment
LaHermes Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 "I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. Michael J. Fox It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you. Margaret Cho 1 Link to comment
LaHermes Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 For the day that's in it: "“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.” ― Stefan Molyneux "In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them." Ayn Rand Link to comment
LaHermes Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 "“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ― Mark Twain "“The best fighter is never angry.” ― Lao Tzu Link to comment
itsallgrand Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 "It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled". Often credited to Mark Twain, but he didn't exactly write that. Love it, nonetheless. Link to comment
LaHermes Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 "Don't argue with crazy people You will lose because while you are using facts, rules and logic, they can rewrite their entire universe in a split second." (QuickMeme) Link to comment
mylolita Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” - Oscar Wilde Link to comment
mylolita Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 ‘“I always like to learn, but I don’t always like to be taught.” ——- “Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.” ——- “There but for the grace of God, goes God.” ——— “If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.” ——- “I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.” ——— “It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.” ——- “Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.” ——- “My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic – with myself the chief conversationalist.” ——— “I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.” ——- “Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?” ——- - Sir Winston Churchill Link to comment
mylolita Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 “While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.” -Mark Twain ———- “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.” - Christopher Hitchings ———- “She was a woman with red hair and green eyes— the traits which Satan supposedly relished most in mortal females.” -Robert Shea, The Eye in the Pyramid ———- “You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you’ll never get any sleep with a redhead!” -Jamie Luner ——— “You’d find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair. People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is!” -Anne of Green Gables ——— Link to comment
mylolita Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 “Has it ever struck you that all of life is all memory, aside from the present moment which that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?” - Tennessee Williams x Link to comment
ShySoul Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie, An Autobiography Do not open your heart to evil. Because—if you do—evil will come…Yes, very surely evil will come…It will enter in and make its home within you, and after a little while it will no longer be possible to drive it out. ― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile 1 Link to comment
Batya33 Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 8 hours ago, ShySoul said: “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie, An Autobiography Do not open your heart to evil. Because—if you do—evil will come…Yes, very surely evil will come…It will enter in and make its home within you, and after a little while it will no longer be possible to drive it out. ― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile I recently read The Christie Affair which was very interesting -it's a novel. Link to comment
ShySoul Posted Tuesday at 02:14 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:14 AM 13 hours ago, Batya33 said: I recently read The Christie Affair which was very interesting -it's a novel. I heard about it. Based on her actual disappearance where she was found with amensia checked into a hotel under the name of her husbands mistress. Up to her death she never said much about what happened to her. Will always be the one mystery of hers that never gets solved. There was also film based on the events back in 1979 with Dustin Hoffman and Vanessa Redgrave. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078736/ 1 Link to comment
ShySoul Posted Tuesday at 04:43 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:43 AM “Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.” “We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.” “It’s not that I’m so smart,” said Einstein, who was a consummate introvert. “It’s that I stay with problems longer.” “Or you’re told that you’re “in your head too much,” a phrase that’s often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Of course, there’s another word for such people: thinkers.” ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 1 Link to comment
Batya33 Posted Tuesday at 10:11 AM Share Posted Tuesday at 10:11 AM 7 hours ago, ShySoul said: I heard about it. Based on her actual disappearance where she was found with amensia checked into a hotel under the name of her husbands mistress. Up to her death she never said much about what happened to her. Will always be the one mystery of hers that never gets solved. There was also film based on the events back in 1979 with Dustin Hoffman and Vanessa Redgrave. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078736/ Wow I had no idea about the film! Link to comment
mylolita Posted Tuesday at 09:46 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 09:46 PM I love this book and quote talk! I’m reading a fantastic novel at the moment and I want to add some passages I dog eared at the pages along the way! ENA Bookclub, anyone? 🥳🫣🤣 x 2 Link to comment
Batya33 Posted Tuesday at 11:13 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 11:13 PM 1 hour ago, mylolita said: I love this book and quote talk! I’m reading a fantastic novel at the moment and I want to add some passages I dog eared at the pages along the way! ENA Bookclub, anyone? 🥳🫣🤣 x Love talking about books! Just finished Midnight Library -you might like it! 1 Link to comment
mylolita Posted Thursday at 09:12 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:12 PM On 5/29/2024 at 12:13 AM, Batya33 said: Love talking about books! Just finished Midnight Library -you might like it! I’ll have to go find that one Batya! I’ve just finished ‘Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant’ by Anne Tyler and I was pretty blown away! I need to fire out some quotes from it. I don’t want to hand it back to the library! I think I’ll buy it and read again 🌝🤣 x 1 Link to comment
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