“That easy, confident grin returned. “Don’t worry, it’s easily forgotten.”
“Well,” I said huffily, “it shouldn’t be that easily forgotten.”
“Would you like it better if I say I’ll eventually forget it but not without a great deal of struggle and torment?”
“Yes.”
“Done.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“We’re all in charge of our own lives—and we have to live with the consequences of the choices we make.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Do you think my being someone else's wife will change anything? Don't you know that I'd lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I'd defy the laws of gods and men for you?”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Bad things are always going to happen,” my father had told me in his last year. “There’s no way to avoid that. Our control comes in how we face them. Do we let them crush us, making us despondent? Do we face them unflinchingly and endure the pain? Do we outsmart them?”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Mister Thorn, something tells me you could sell salvation to a priest.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Bad things are always going to happen. There’s no way to avoid that. Our control comes in how we face them. Do we let them crush us, making us despondent? Do we face the unflinchingly and endure the pain? Do we outsmart them?”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“We’re all in charge of our own lives—and we have to live with the consequences of the choices we make.” Those”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“I agree. I certainly like your mouth”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“For a moment, all I could think of was my cousin Peter. He was twice my age—and married. By the rules of decent, he would be the one to inherit the Rothford title if I died without children. Whenever he was in town, he'd stop by and ask how I was feeling”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“I realized then that I was taking the first approach to this "bad thing" with Lionel: I was letting it crush me. And so, I decided then and there that I would choose the nobler, unflinching approach. I would endure the pain.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“I'd never really planned on stealing someone else's life.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Don't you know that I'd lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I'd defy the laws of gods and men for you?”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“You're too strong, too opinionated, to just let yourself go with the first offer. You deserve more. You deserve to have them lined up in front of you.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“La guerra fa emergere il mostro che è nell’uomo.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“I certainly like your mouth." --Cedric”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Siamo tutti responsabili delle nostre esistenze... e dobbiamo vivere con le conseguenze delle scelte che facciamo.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Se le credenze di qualcuno non fanno del male al prossimo, non credo che quel qualcuno debba essere punito.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Non sei morto”, mormorai.
Quasi si strozzò con una risata. “Anch’io sono contento di vederti, cara”.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Tutte le storie hanno un seme di verità.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Chi minaccia di tradirti ora non rinuncerà mai a farlo.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“There is nearly universal consensus that we should prohibit selling and serving alcohol to minors because wine, beer, and spirits can be addictive and, when used to excess, ruinous for their health. Is excess sugar any different?”
― quote from The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“A belligerent samurai, an old Japanese tale goes, once challenged a Zen master to explain the concept of heaven and hell. The monk replied with scorn, "You're nothing but a lout - I can't waste my time with the likes of you!"
His very honor attacked, the samurai flew into a rage and, pulling his sword from its scabbard, yelled "I could kill you for your impertinence."
"That," the monk calmly replied, "is hell."
Startled at seeing the truth in what the master pointed out about the fury that had him in its grip, the samurai calmed down, sheathed his sword, and bowed, thanking the monk for the insight.
"And that,"said the monk "is heaven."
The sudden awakening of the samurai to his own agitated state illustrates the crucial difference between being caught up in a feeling and becoming aware that you are being swept away by it. Socrates's injunction "Know thyself" speaks to the keystone of emotional intelligence: awareness of one's own feelings as they occur.”
― Daniel Goleman, quote from Inteligência Emocional
“I do not know about magic, but words are powerful things indeed.”
― MarcyKate Connolly, quote from Monstrous
“Para mí, un éxito es cuando termino un reportaje y estoy triste porque estoy alejándome de alguien de quien había logrado estar cerca" dice Karen Kasmauski”
― quote from National Geographic: The Photographs
“But for someone like me, who moved into an entirely different world when still quite young, it’s as if a deep gap divides my past and my present.”
― quote from A True Novel
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