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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1bf7731 | Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently. | buddhism desire psychology spirituality | Mark Epstein | |
| 9fc2b44 | It was good and nothing good is ever lost. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 2229dfd | Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule's threatening to quit. Why don't you two try to show the younger guys it can be fun instead of taking a note out of everyone else's books and letting it drive you insane? -Jonas | jonas lora-leigh mercury-s-war | Lora Leigh | |
| b84c875 | Ethan sighed, then put a hand on my cheek. "I don't tell you this enough, but I am incredibly proud of the vampire you've become. I want you to know that." | Chloe Neill | ||
| be56147 | Mallory!" Catcher's voice boomed down the stairs. Mallory fixed her mouth into a tight line and walked me into the kitchen. "Ignore it," she advised. "Much like the bubonic plague, it'll go away if you give it enough time." "Mallory! You weren't finished! Get back in here!" | Chloe Neill | ||
| 250da99 | the only legitimate reason that kingship is not attractive to us is because in this age and this world the only kings available are finite and sinful. Listen to C. S. Lewis describe why he believes in democracy: A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that everyone deserved a share in the government. The danger of defending.. | god kingship | John Piper | |
| ab58750 | Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if she couldn't fuss over you and make you clean your room? And what would you do without her fussing and making you do it? Everyone needs a mom. And a mom knowns this. And it gives her a sense of purpose. You get it? | guys mom purpose | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 71c60e3 | The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination | art artist criticism critics genius genius-stupidity imagination nerd nerdery nerds | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 4e764aa | The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 80b3395 | Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 2199574 | He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 1e796db | To bankrupt a fool, give him information. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 84830a3 | What are you doing here " "Hiding with you" -- | decker | Lynsay Sands | |
| 047ab92 | No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time. | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 73e1189 | We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything. | Courtney E. Martin | ||
| 36f186e | Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing | wisdom | Brian Tracy | |
| 25a632e | Better to be screwed physically than financially. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e418db6 | a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 244b604 | The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent. | eating-disorders feminism self-esteem society | Naomi Wolf | |
| f318747 | Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read ove.. | Richard Peck | ||
| ca01697 | Helen, You ask if I regret our engagement. No. I regret every minute that you're out of my sight. I regret every step that doesn't bring me closer to you. My last thought each night is that you should be in my arms. There is no peace or pleasure in my empty bed, where I sleep with you only in dreams and wake to curse the dawn. If I had the right, I would forbid you to go anywhere without me. Not out of selfishness, but because being apart f.. | love-letter rhys-winterborne | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 5c66a0a | It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect. | love romance romance-novels | Lisa Kleypas | |
| c37d6ae | When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| f253f16 | You're not suited for this Merripen. You can't hold your liquor worth a damn. And unlike people such as me, who become quite amicable when they drink, you turn into a vile-tempered troll." Leo paused considering how best to provoke him. "Liquor brings out one's true inner nature, they say." | merripen | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 1798d11 | THAT'S WHAT POWERFUL MEN DO TO THIS COUNTRY - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, BREATHLESS COUNTRY, AND POWERFUL MEN USE IT TO TREAT THEMSELVES TO A THRILL! THEY SAY THEY LOVE IT BUT THEY DON'T MEAN IT. THEY SAY THINGS TO MAKE THEMSELVES APPEAR GOOD - THEY MAKE THEMSELVES APPEAR MORAL...THE COUNTRY WANTS A SAVIOUR. THE COUNTRY IS A SUCKER FOR POWERFUL MEN WHO LOOK GOOD. WE THINK THEY'RE MORALISTS AND THEN THEY JUST USE US. | John Irving | ||
| 9a4f933 | If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. | life old-age | John Irving | |
| 25a3ec6 | When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark. | sons | John Irving | |
| 815cab8 | Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question." | lying | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| ecff290 | She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 576387d | The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare." -- | irene | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 114aaaf | It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 713b6b0 | I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of idleness.' But are you under the impression that you have so great a mind that you can understand the most profound writer at a first reading?' I don't want to understand him, I'm not a critic. I'm not interested in him for his sake but for mine.' Why do you read then?' Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as .. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 9a321ed | The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here - it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin... | quellcrist-falconer takeshi-kovacs | Richard K. Morgan | |
| 42e8c8e | Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh] | Irving Stone | ||
| eb1fe79 | That, I realized, is the great beauty of dreams: the devil may inevitably find a way to jerk you off, but you can always wake up before he makes you cum. | Jim Carroll | ||
| d9c9c6f | There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden. | magic | Gene Wolfe | |
| 9afaff6 | It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir. | paraphrased | Julia Quinn | |
| 3b83588 | To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world. | humor penmanship | Julia Quinn | |
| 3eca7ba | Say whatever is in your heart," Violet said. Her lips twisted wryly. "And if that doesn't work, I suggest that you take a book and knock him over the head with it." Hyacinth blinked, then blinked again. "I beg your pardon." "I didn't say that," Violet said quickly. Hyacinth felt herself smile. "I'm rather certain you did." "Do you think?" Violet murmured, concealing her own smile with her teacup. "A large book," Hyacinth queried, "or small?.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| bc4dcf6 | I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar." | Julia Quinn | ||
| b123f62 | I shall have one, too," he told her. "So that you don't feel alone." She tried not to smile. "That is most generous of you." "I am quite certain it is my gentlemanly duty." "To eat cake?" "It is one of the more appealing of my gentlemanly duties," he allowed." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 9a1dad6 | I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite. | Alan Moore | ||
| 4a6b10c | Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain...The black sheep of the family. | Alan Moore | ||
| ebdd1f9 | There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is unrest. There is great unrest. | Julian Barnes |