#nu

Je fais mon lit et mon ménage; I seek my dinner in a restaurant; my supper takes care, of itself; I pass days laborious and loveless; nights long and lonely; I am ferocious, and bearded and monkish; and nothing now living in this world loves me, except some old hearts worn like my own, and some few beings, impoverished, suffering, poor in purse and in spirit, whom the kingdoms of this world own not, but to whom a will and testament not to be disputed has bequeathed the kingdom of heaven. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#loneliness #villette #love

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#ethics #evil #morality #renunciation #stoic

بعد أن تعلم أهل المريخ كيف ينصتون حققوا أعظم اكتشاف مدهش، لقد بدأوا يدركون أن الانصات لزهرية تتحدث عن مشكلات يمكن حقا أن يساعدهم على الخروج من كهوفهم، مثلما هو الحال عند مشاهدة مبارة في التلفزيون أو قراءة الصحف. ↗

— John Gray

#women-are-from-venus #men

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #magnus-banned-from-peru #city

Linnaeus's last lesson, of which he himself was unaware, was that professorships kill philosophers. Oh, I'm vain enough to want my burgeoning Flora Japonica to be published one day--as a votive offering to human knowledge--but a seat at Uppsala, or Leiden, or Cambridge, holds no allure. My heart is the East's in this lifetime. This is my third year in Nagasaki, and I have work enough for another three, or six. During the court embassy I can see landscapes no European botanist ever saw. My seminarians are keen young men--with one young woman--and visiting scholars bring me specimens from all over the empire. ↗

— David Mitchell

#men

Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer. ↗

— Mario Stinger

#innovation #invention #tenacity #men

Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#genuine #unaffected #men

Was ist das höchste, dass du je beim Münze-werfen verloren hast? ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#schießerei #spannung #texas #tod #men

Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce." She waved her hand. "Absolutely no problem. Your money is our money. My money is my money." She wrote away. "I should make you negotiate with Phoebe. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#money #pre-nup #romance #humor

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#nurture #music