“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.” PeopleTryingFacesAbilityForeverExpressionBrokenAwkwardCrackedTrust Others Book:No Longer Human Source: No Longer Human
“Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.” ShouldHumansGreaterCenturyExpressionBrokenActivitySlaveryBarriersArtificialWomens RightsSubmissionCraveAssertionTruestEmancipation Book:Emma Goldman Source: Emma Goldman
“Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.” ArtSelfEnoughMomentsLostCasesSpecialExpressionMaterialsBrokenConcernedConnectionsFunctionExperimentsPermanentSelf ExpressionSpecial Moments Author:Jane Heap
“Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.” WorldWantHumansSoulStatesJobsExpressionBrokenGloryOrdinaryMiseryExtraordinaryHuman LifeJust Do ItBroken World Author:Dallas Willard
“He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.” ChildrenMomentsMightFacesWhiteAnimalCitiesExpressionBrokenStonesSilentClimbingScreamTowersSummitReposeCrackedChainedClimbing Up Author:Peter Ackroyd
“The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare’s face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something. I’ve discovered that Clare likes to be alone. But when I return from time traveling she is always relieved to see me.” MindKindSometimesHomeSeemsFacesRoomsSilenceGoneDoorsExpressionBrokenReturnLessonsSolitudeSittingTrainLikesHardestComing HomeTime TravelInterruptedRelievedIrritatedDrearyKnittingClosed DoorsTrain Of Thought Author:Audrey Niffenegger