Quilos Para Quotes & Sayings

The spurned diagnosis
Shame
"By shame, I have in mind the terrible, at times unfathomable, feeling of being outcast from human society, of being shunned and spurned, of being wanted by no one, and having no one who empathizes with you (Lynd 1958). Part of this experience of shame is the focus on the inadequacies of oneself in the eyes of others and oneself, and of feeling mortified, wanting to disappear, to hide inside a crack in the wall (Lewis 1971). — Elizabeth Howell

She enjoyed the notion that New York was home, and that she missed it, but in fact the only thing she really missed was pizza. And not just any old pizza, but the sort of pizza they brought to your door if you phoned them up and asked them. That was the only real pizza. Pizza that you had to go out and sit at a table staring at red paper napkins for wasn't real pizza however much extra pepperoni and anchovy they put on it. London was the place she liked living in most, apart, of course, from the pizza problem, which drove her crazy. Why would no one deliver pizza? Why did no one understand that it was fundamental to the whole nature of pizza that it arrived at your front door in a hot cardboard box? That you slithered it out of greaseproof paper and ate it in folded slices in front of the TV? — Douglas Adams

If there's nobody left, even if the real world is saved, I will be destroyed ... So please don't die. Please don't go away anymore ... -Lenalee Lee — Katsura Hoshino

Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly. — Zeenat Aman

When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered. — Elvis Presley

actions are no more than dreams — Osho

For Beatrice- I would much prefer it if you were alive and well. — Lemony Snicket

Let's not talk punishment. — George Steinbrenner

I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two. — Pankaj Mishra

... with a quiet suggestion of infinity... — Marcel Proust

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. — Paul Cezanne

This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself. — Oprah Winfrey

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don't challenge ourselves to actually practice. — Bell Hooks