An officer put me in my place from the first moment. I was standing by the billiard-table and in my ignorance blocking up the way, and he wanted to pass; he took me by the shoulders and without a word--without a warning or explanation--moved me from where I was standing to another spot and passed by as though he had not noticed me. I could have forgiven blows, but I could not forgive his having moved me without noticing me. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
None of us can choose where we shall love...
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Susan Kay
There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.
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Patrick Rothfuss
It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way
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Jeremy Aldana
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces....
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Frederick Buechner
To perceive is to suffer.
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Aristotle
More Quotes By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having...
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
The soul is healed by being with children.
I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
