Quotes of: Significant-other Keyword

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

On the other hand, the 'heart' is just as important in that it is the 'other' way of knowing and experiencing". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

You think those cats care? You think other animals watch each other go at it and it does something for them?” “Like cat-porn.

The Kills

It should all feel splendid. You tell me if it doesn't, and I shall rectify the situation.

A Rogue by Any Other Name

Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

The Republic and Other Works

Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?' Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.' Merchant: 'Well spoken...

Siddhartha

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men--that is genius.

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

It does not matter where one comes from, one can achieve even the greatest of things in life.

The Sad Artist and Other Fairytales

In life we must be willing to take risks, for that is the only way progress is attained.

The Sad Artist and Other Fairytales

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

Siegfried

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

Single Dad Laughing

Any amount of theology can be smuggled into people's minds under cover of romance without them knowing it.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Myself with Others: Selected Essays

..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

I bet if you cut open my stomach, the black slug of depression would slide out.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Mal denen şeye kendi varlığımız ya da halkın varlığı gibi tuhaf bir ad koymuşuz. Üstelik varlığını kaybetmek insanlar arasında ayıp ve budalalık sayılmış.

Matryona's House And Other Stories