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Litost X Quotes By Milan Kundera

You must understand that by this time the only choice was among several varieties of defeat, but the town in question rejected compromise and would settle for nothing but victory. That was not reason talking; that was the voice of litost! — Milan Kundera

Litost X Quotes By Mark Simpson

There's a perverse and bitter joy in feeling unique, but you pay dearly. Morrissey — Mark Simpson

Litost X Quotes By Rabih Alameddine

In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery. — Rabih Alameddine

Litost X Quotes By Ursula Andress

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living. — Ursula Andress

Litost X Quotes By Kerry Greenwood

Phryne opened her book and sipped her lemonade. Agatha Christie. What a plotter. Phryne wished briefly that the real world was so amenable to being solved. *** — Kerry Greenwood

Litost X Quotes By Ruth Wilson

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about. — Ruth Wilson

Litost X Quotes By Miguel Ruiz

Consider how many times you have gossiped about the person you love the most to gain the support of others for your point of view. How many times have you hooked other people's attention, and spread poison about your loved one in order to make your opinion right? Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true. Your opinion comes from your beliefs, your own ego, and your own dream. We create all this poison and spread it to others just so we can feel right about our own point of view. — Miguel Ruiz

Litost X Quotes By Milan Kundera

( ... ) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look back on happily. But when the illusion of absolute identity vanishes (the girl looks back happily on her past or swims faster), love becomes a permanent source of the great torment we call litost. — Milan Kundera

Litost X Quotes By Idries Shah

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. — Idries Shah

Litost X Quotes By Sunday Adelaja

The Word will help you get free from bad thoughts, if you meditate on it and let it fill your heart. The Word of God will help you to make clear division between your soul and spirit. — Sunday Adelaja

Litost X Quotes By Suresh Jindal

Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will want to free all sentient beings from suffering. This is karuna, compassion, which in turn gives rise to the responsibility to create happiness and its causes for all. — Suresh Jindal

Litost X Quotes By Grace Riley

You should always use the same product line on your skin that is used in the spa where you work (If appropriate for your skin type) so your skin demonstrates how the product line can help your clients. You can't educate and sell products that you don't even use. You are representing how those products work. You MUST use the products, not just one piece of the product line, but you need to use many of the products so you can educate the customer on how the product line helped your skin. They need to see that you practice what you preach. — Grace Riley

Litost X Quotes By Arlie Russell Hochschild

The Greek word "nostalgia" derives from the root nostros, meaning "return home," and algia, meaning "longing." Doctors in seventeenth-century Europe considered nostalgia an illness, like the flu, mainly suffered by displaced migrant servants, soldiers, and job seekers, and curable through opium, leeches, or, for the affluent, a journey to the Swiss Alps. Throughout time, such feeling has been widely acknowledged. The Portuguese have the term saudade. The Russians have toska. The Czechs have litost. Others too name the feeling: for Romanians, it's dor, for Germans, it's heimweh. The Welsh have hiraeth, the Spanish mal de corazon. Many — Arlie Russell Hochschild