It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally. He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self...
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Kate Chopin
I existed in a world that never is , a prison of the mind.
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Gene Tierney
All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
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Stefan Molyneux
Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.
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David Adam
Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
More Quotes By Elizabeth Gaskell
One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to beloved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannotcleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have neverloved any woman before: my life has...
I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.
Take care. If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Send me away at once, if I must go; — Margaret! —
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.