She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.
L.M. MontgomeryStichwörter: things do grandchildren
There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that elegance signaled happiness.
Anna QuindlenStichwörter: things possessions stuff
The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory — of this there is no doubt.
Orhan PamukStichwörter: imagination memory things memories
Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.
Anthony LiccioneStichwörter: life things desire need vain
You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.
Haruki MurakamiStichwörter: reason world things
things you bone, end up boning you
Josh SternStichwörter: things humor-inspirational-life boning
Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.
Edmund de WaalStichwörter: stories things objects patina
Your Reality is an accumulation of all the things that you have wished for.
Steven RedheadStichwörter: reality things accumulation wished
Life was never meant to be difficult, we just make it that way so that it fits into societies and our indoctrinated concept of what things should be like.
Steven RedheadStichwörter: life difficult things indoctrination concept societies
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
Galileo GalileiStichwörter: science things essence names attributes
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