How Quotes (page 261)

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• nature
• than
• realization

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. Saul Bellow

• feeling
• heartfelt
• wellness

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable. Jane Austen

• wishes
• good
• dark

Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid it is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this dark world AND to illuminate... David Foster Wallace

• world
• worldly
• causing

It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment. Ludwig Wittgenstein

• thinking
• thinks
• happenings

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus Epictetus

• looking good
• girl
• girls

It seems to make a difference to some girls. If you say something that isn't sexist to the right sort ofgirl, she likes you more. Say one of your mates is going on about how all girls are stupid, and you say 'not all girls are stupid,' then it can make you look good. There have to be girls listening, though, obviously. Otherwise it's a waste of time. Nick Hornby

• little
• thinking
• awesome

It's a little dense, don't you think, to antagonize the strongest vampire in the house?' Emmett threw his head back and snorted. 'PLEASE!' [...] I took a deep breath. 'Emmett, how do you feel about a little bet?' He was on his feet at once. 'Awesome. Bring it. Stephenie Meyer

• die
• space
• consistency

The human being is only a reed, the most feeble in nature; but this is a thinking reed. It isn't necessary for the entire universe to arm itself in order to crush him; a whiff of vapor, a taste of water, suffices to kill him. But when the universe crushes him, the human being becomes still more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and the advantage that the universe has over him. The universe, it does not have a clue."All our dignity consists, then, in thought.... Blaise Pascal

• amazing
• annoying
• laughs

Amazing," Edward muttered. "How can someone so tiny be so annoying?"Alice laughed. "It's a talent. Stephenie Meyer

• giving
• look
• more

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry Lynn Abbey

• perfect
• end
• endings

Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end. Stephenie Meyer

• becoming
• explains
• consciousness

Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious? Ian Mcewan

• images
• dream
• inspirational

Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire! Gaston Bachelard

• energy
• love
• top

It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert. Sue Monk Kidd

• slice
• thinness
• will

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides. Baruch Spinoza