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1 " Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up. "
― Sarah Ockler , Twenty Boy Summer
2 " Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. "
― E. Lockhart , We Were Liars
3 " Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you. "
― Suzanne Collins
4 " It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama. "
― Deb Caletti , The Secret Life of Prince Charming
5 " Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job. "
6 " You act young," he said, " because you are young. But you know things, Roza. Things people older than you don't even know. That day...." I knew instantly which day he referred to. The one up against the wall. " You were right, about how I fight to stay in control. No one else has ever figured that out- and it scared me. You scare me." " Why? Don't you want anyone to know?" He shrugged. " Whether they know that fact or not doesn't matter. What matters is that someone- that you- know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend." " Like Tasha." " Tasha Ozera is an amazing woman. She's beautiful and she's brave. But she doesn't-" " She doesn't get you," I finished.He nodded. " I knew that. But I still wanted the relationship. I knew it would be easy and that she could take me away from you. I thought she could make me forget you." I'd thought the same thing about Mason. " But she couldn't." " Yes. And, so.....that's a problem. "
7 " Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times. "
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8 " It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet. "
― P.G. Wodehouse , Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)
9 " Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare." Exactly so," said Alice." Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on." I do," Alice hastily replied; " at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." " You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, " that 'I breathewhen I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe! "
10 " But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking to form itself, first of all to decide the nature of its surface, to what bodies it should turn its light, to which its dark side, without first letting the harmony of centrifugal and centripetal forces realize [*realisere*] its existence [*Existents*] and letting the rest come of itself. One must learn first to know himself before knowing anything else (γνῶθι σε αυτόν). Not until a man has inwardly understood himself and then sees the course he is to take does his life gain peace and meaning; only then is he free of the irksome, sinister traveling companion―that irony of life which manifests itself in the sphere of knowledge and invites true knowing to begin with a not-knowing (Socrates), just as God created the world from nothing. But in the waters of morality it is especially at home to those who still have not entered the tradewinds of virtue. Here it tumbles a person about in a horrible way, for a time lets him feel happy and content in his resolve to go ahead along the right path, then hurls him into the abyss of despair. Often it lulls a man to sleep with the thought, " After all, things cannot be otherwise," only to awaken him suddenly to a rigorous interrogation. Frequently it seems to let a veil of forgetfulness fall over the past, only to make every single trifle appear in a strong light again. When he struggles along the right path, rejoicing in having overcome temptation's power, there may come at almost the same time, right on the heels of perfect victory, an apparently insignificant external circumstance which pushes him down, like Sisyphus, from the height of the crag. Often when a person has concentrated on something, a minor external circumstance arises which destroys everything. (As in the case of a man who, weary of life, is about to throw himself into the Thames and at the crucial moment is halted by the sting of a mosquito). Frequently a person feels his very best when the illness is the worst, as in tuberculosis. In vain he tries to resist it but he has not sufficient strength, and it is no help to him that he has gone through the same thing many times; the kind of practice acquired in this way does not apply here. Just as no one who has been taught a great deal about swimming is able to keep afloat in a storm, but only the man who is intensely convinced and has experiences that he is actually lighter than water, so a person who lacks this inward point of poise is unable to keep afloat in life's storms.―Only when a man has understood himself in this way is he able to maintain an independent existence and thus avoid surrendering his own I. How often we see (in a period when we extol that Greek historian because he knows how to appropriate an unfamiliar style so delusively like the original author's, instead of censuring him, since the first prize always goes to an author for having his own style―that is, a mode of expression and presentation qualified by his own individuality)―how often we see people who either out of mental-spiritual laziness live on the crumbs that fall from another's table or for more egotistical reasons seek to identify themselves with others, until eventually they believe it all, just like the liar through frequent repetition of his stories." ―from_Journals_, Search for Personal Meaning "
11 " It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular. A systematic ribbon and button maker can become unpopular but essentially is not at all, inasmuch as he does not mean much by the very odd things he says (alas, and this is a popular art!). Socrates, on the other hand, was the most unpopular in Greece because he said the same thing as the simplest person but meant infinitely much by it. To be able to stick to one thing, to stick to it with ethical passion and undauntedness of spirit, to see the intrinsic duplexity of this one thought with the same impartiality, and at one and the same time to see the most profound earnestness and the greatest jest, the deepest tragedy and highest comedy―this is unpopular in any age for anyone who has not realized that immediacy is over. But neither can what is essentially unpopular be learned by rote. More on that later. "
― Søren Kierkegaard , Stages on Life's Way
12 " In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time. "
― Abraham Lincoln
13 " Whatever happens when the seed meets the soil, the same thing happens when you meet the wisdom! "
― Mehmet Murat ildan
14 " Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied. "
― Kristen Crockett , The Gift of Past Relationships
15 " He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes - and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission. "
― Kerstin Gier , Rubinrot (Edelstein-Trilogie, #1)
16 " The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.That doesn't mean that the goals we have don't count. They do, mostly because they cause us to go through the process and it's the process that makes us wise, happy, or whatever. If we do things in the wrong sort of way, it makes us miserable, angry, confused, and things like that. The goal has to be right for us, and it has to be beneficial, in order to ensure a beneficial process. But aside from that, it's really the process that's important. "
― Benjamin Hoff , The Tao of Pooh
17 " You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed. "
― Vann Chow , Shanghai Fools (Master Shanghai #2)
18 " She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry. "
― , Slightly Wicked (Bedwyn Saga, #2)
19 " A laugh jumps out of my mouth, surprising me. I can’t even remember the last time I laughed and it puts me on edge. I suddenly want to do the same thing to her. Let her see how it feels to teeter on that cliff. "
― Nyrae Dawn , Charade (Games, #1)
20 " I’ve never heard a girl say a diamond was too big.”“I just think when they get too big they look fake.” He leans down. “I say the same thing about breasts. "
― Allie Everhart , Loving You (Jade, #3)