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214. “It meant that the silently waged conflict between himself and his cleaning lady had escalated to a new and more frightening level. It was now, Dirk reckoned, fully three months since this fridge door had been opened, and each of them was grimly determined not to be the one to open it first.”
Douglas Adams
Conflict, Stubbornness, Humor, Domestic Life, Tension
219. “It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature.” Robert Louis Stevenson Aspirations Conflict, Moral Struggle, Dual Nature, Identity, Growth, Conflict
239. “Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.” Rainer Maria Rilke Love, Relationships, Selflessness, Conflict, Emotion, Difficulty
Conflict Quotes by Famous Authors
214. “It meant that the silently waged conflict between himself and his cleaning lady had escalated to a new and more frightening level. It was now, Dirk reckoned, fully three months since this fridge door had been opened, and each of them was grimly determined not to be the one to open it first.”
Douglas Adams Conflict, Stubbornness, Humor, Domestic Life, Tension
219. “It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature.”
Robert Louis Stevenson Aspirations Conflict, Moral Struggle, Dual Nature, Identity, Growth, Conflict
239. “Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.”
Rainer Maria Rilke Love, Relationships, Selflessness, Conflict, Emotion, Difficulty
