You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
Philip RothTags: truth significant
We only pass this way once..unless our significant other is reading the map..
k.j. forceTags: reading significant map
The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.
Steven RedheadTags: power choice nature heart significant immense resource untapped
The anniversary date of a loved one's death is particularly significant. You will have done something you thought was impossible a few months earlier. You will have survived an entire year without someone who was as important to you as life itself.
Bob DietsTags: life impossible significant year death-of-a-loved-one anniversary
You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.
Mandy HaleTags: life love alone independence significant significance singles positive-thinking single singleness single-life being-single the-single-woman single-woman not-settling significant-life significant-other walking-alone
We’d all lost ourselves and found something far more significant together. We reached with gaping wounds for a healing we desired so badly, like a blind man picturing the world around him—the lively children skipping rope, green grass, blue sky. It’s like that man standing in his vision, rising from the park bench, arms outstretched, taking the first steps into a world he only hopes exists.
Christopher HawkeTags: hope desire healing significant blindness blind
God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.
Shannon L. AlderTags: friends future love family stories signs growth illness providence skill talents significant meetings trials process journeys fates storms situations insignificant no-coincidences god-s-plan trajedy years-of-struggle aquaintances people-in-your-life people-you-met
I have no name," she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be.
Sarah J. MaasTags: truth significant name celaena-sardothien dorian-havilliard ball-scene
What's your name?" he asked above the roar of the music.
She leaned close. "My name is Wind," she whispered. "And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song."
He chuckled a low, delightful sound. She was drunk and silly, and so full of the glory of being young and alive and in the capital of the world that she could hardly contain herself.
"I have no name," she purred. "I am whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be."
He grasped her by her wrist, running a thumb along the sensitive sknin underneath. "Then let me call you Mine for a dance or two.
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