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| 26c3b5c | Everyone who loves pro basketball assumes it's a little fixed. We all think the annual draft lottery is probably rigged, we all accept that the league aggressively wants big market teams to advance deep into the playoffs, and we all concede that certain marquee players are going to get preferential treatment for no valid reason. The outcomes of games aren't predeteremined or scripted but there are definitely dark forces who play with our re.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 2c82744 | We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up. | change grace life moving-forward plans vitality | Joseph Campbell | |
| f0c01c0 | The hero of yesterday becomes the tyrant of tomorrow, unless he crucifies himself today. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| c93615e | When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111) | mythology spiritual-experience spirituality translation | Joseph Campbell | |
| ec8c440 | Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't even a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now that all thinking in temporal terms cuts off.... the experience of eternity right here and now, in all things, whether thought of as good or as evil, is the function of life. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| f1071b2 | The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through. | myth self | Joseph Campbell | |
| e9b29d2 | The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants... They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| d835b00 | You love it right?" Lassiter asked, holding his Bible high. "I mean, you told me to go on the internet. I did. I even printed out my diploma or whatever the hell it's called." Opening the cover of the King James version, he took out a piece of paper and waved it around. "See? Nice and legal-like" Beth leaned in "Wow". "I know right? Just like Harvard" "Impressive" "I'm totally framing that shit, wha-what." | humor lassiter the-king | J.R. Ward | |
| 17aad4a | Wrath was in a bad mood, and he knew this because the sound of the doggen waxing the wooden balustrade at the top of the main staircase was making him want to light the whole fucking mansion on fire. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 2ec12ef | People claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 4a736f0 | The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 95858af | The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| a6f26d8 | Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there. | Phillip C. McGraw | ||
| 412c956 | People are in one of two states in a relationship," Gottman went on. "The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It's like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they'll say, 'Oh, he's just in a crummy mood.' Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative." | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 2147ab8 | Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. | social tipping | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 93183c9 | Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push--in just the right place--it can be tipped. | world | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 58f2fa1 | My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. | life | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
| c262061 | What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ||
| a02b7cd | She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps. | rediscover the-great-perhaps | John Green | |
| 176078a | I always had this secret suspicion that I was special. | John Green | ||
| 62841d4 | I looked after that Dudley family for too long, over six years. His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose-pipe trying to beat the girl out a that boy until I couldn't stand it no more.... I wish to God I'd told John Green Dudley he ain't going to hell. That he ain't no sideshow freak cause he like boys. I wish to God I'd filled his ears with good things like I'm trying to do with Mae Mobley. Instead, I just sat .. | homosexuality-masculinity regrets | Kathryn Stockett | |
| 7e81ef6 | There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of it goes: 'Blown from the dark hill hither to my door/ Three flakes, then four/ Arrive, then many more.' You can count the first three flakes, and the fourth. Then language fails, and you have to settle in and try to survive the blizzard | edna-st-vincent-millay john-green poem snow snow-flake turtles-all-the-way-down | John Green | |
| f850162 | My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living, too. | loss loss-of-parent | John Green | |
| 7a3e075 | Straight and fast. | John Green | ||
| 4bf52fa | According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art and whatever else, which is, utter horseshit: The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness. Maslow's pyramid seemed to imply I was less human than other people, and most people seemed to agree wi.. | maslow needs sickness | John Green | |
| 344ba78 | When Ben unfurls the T-shirts, there are two small problems. First, it turns out that a large T-shirt in a Georgia gas station is not the same size as a large T-shirt at, say, Old Navy. The gas station shirt is gigantic-more garbage bag than shirt. It is smaller than the graduation robes, but not by much. But this problem pales in comparison to the other problem, which is that both T-shirts are embossed with huge Confederate flags. Printed .. | John Green | ||
| 3f90521 | It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's not how it works." "Because it's turtles all the way down," I said again, feeling something akin to a spiritual revelation." | John Green | ||
| af6f536 | But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel -- independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic. | David Nicholls | ||
| f21875c | These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that. | Muriel Spark | ||
| a6a7c0d | The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet... From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| b64b40d | Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| e483c9c | And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate. | janie men mothers | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 0f7a31b | When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 48cbd1b | She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly. | Judy Blume | ||
| 21ee629 | Ethan extended his hand. "Mr. Merit. Thank you for your help." My grandfather shook his hand, but he also shook his head. "Thank your Sentinel. She's a fine representative of your House." Ethan looked at me, pride-and love?-in his eyes. "We're in agreement there." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 28dced7 | Ethan opened his mouth, closed it, then opened it again. "That's an interesting analysis." reruns have been rolling nonstop on cable," Luc said. Huh. That was an interesting bit of information about our guard captain." | friday-night-bites | Chloe Neill | |
| 3b6f560 | I tried to tune out the sensation and, embarassed at the silvering of my eyes-I have to admit, I had a sudden, new sympathy for men faced with hiding their arousal-I squeezed them shut. | Chloe Neill | ||
| fb4458a | Have I ever waxed poetic about the glory that is the fuzzy-chested vampire wearing nothing but cowboy boots? | Chloe Neill | ||
| 5567019 | I just wouldn't want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my experience all boys can be classified as either assholes or bores, unless they're both. Maybe it's a blessing, because the last thing I need is relationship drama to sidetrack me from my grades. | boyfriend love relationships teenage-love | Daria Snadowsky | |
| d8fddb5 | the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people... | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| d994c32 | I must have been in the car for a long time because eventually my sister found me there. I was chain-smoking cigarettes and crying still. My sister knocked on the window. I rolled it down. She looked at me with this curious expression. Then, her curiosity turned to anger. "Charlie, are you smoking?!" She was so mad. I can't tell you how mad she was. "I can't believe you're smoking!" That's when I stopped crying. And started laughing. Becaus.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 83cc484 | And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't worth the price of dinner. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| c8f7093 | There's something about that tunnel that leads to downtown. It's glorious at night. Just glorious. You start on one side of the mountain, and it's dark, and the radio is loud. As you enter the tunnel, the wind gets sucked away, and you squint from the lights overhead. When you adjust to the lights, you can see the other side in the distance just as the sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach. Then, you're in t.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 56088a6 | I am most often irritated by those who attack the bishop but somehow fall for the securities analyst--those who exercise their skepticism against religion but not against economists, social scientists, and phony statisticians. Using the confirmation bias, these people will tell you that religion was horrible for mankind by counting deaths from the Inquisition and various religious wars. But they will not show you how many people were killed.. | nationalism religion skepticism stalinism | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |