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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 47f4974 | The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them. | David Gemmell | ||
| 2f0e0d7 | its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 8577fc6 | A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| da38fe6 | A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bb1769b | David was catnip and kryptonite to me. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f70aa5f | So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on the palms of my bare feet. This kind of thing -- a spontaneous handstand--isn't something a disembodied cool blue soul can do, but a human being can do it. We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy o.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 857fd97 | Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other. We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect--the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| eed63d9 | Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically and sure-handedly through predictable stages of therapy to a foreknown goal, such is rarely the case: instead, as these stories bear witness, therapists frequently wobble, improvise, and grope for direction. The powerful temptation to achieve certainty through embracing an ideological.. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 257dcb4 | It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. | feminism | Simone de Beauvoir | |
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| 2e59344 | I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don't like. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 40c6c2d | If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 74a44ec | As-tu deja ete amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnerable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et le coeur en grand et du coup, n'importe qui peut venir te bousiller de l'interieur. On se forge des defenses, on se fabrique une belle armure pour que rien ne puisse jamais nous atteindre, et voila qu'un imbecile, pas bien different des autres s'immisce dans notre imbecile de vie... On lui offre un morceau de soi alors que l'autre n'a rien demande... | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6a8d7c8 | He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again. | love | Neil Gaiman | |
| 08f6747 | Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things. | myth personal memory | Neil Gaiman | |
| 23482ac | There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and lights on buildings and on bridges which looked like earthbound stars and they glimmered repeated as they were reflected with the city in the night water of the Thames. It's fairyland thought Richard. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| dd7fcbe | Change. Change. Change. Change ... change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do. | delirium gaiman postmodernism | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1f63d44 | Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We could call him Marcus." Josiah Worthington said, "He looks more like my head gardener, Stebbins. Not that I'm suggesting Stebbins as a name. The man drank like a fish." "He looks like my nephew Harry," said Mother Slaughter... "He looks like nobody but himself," said Mrs.Owens, firmly. "He looks like nobod.. | names | Neil Gaiman | |
| 02bff9b | We don't do spells," she said. She sounded a little disappointed to admit it. "We'll do recipes sometimes. But no spells or cantrips. Gran doesn't hold with none of that. She says it's ." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b8c81ca | Somehow, this was one oddity too many. He could accept "Mind the Gap" and the Earl's Court, and even the strange library. But damn it, like all Londoners, he knew his Tube map, and this was going too far. "There isn't a British Museum Station," said Richard, firmly." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3354a4d | I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921 | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5704d85 | Too soon, the sun will rise. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fd2e068 | That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d652716 | It was sort of like , thought Fat Charlie, an hour later; in fact, if the witches in had been four little old ladies and if, instead of stirring cauldrons and intoning dread incantations, they had just welcomed Macbeth in and fed him turkey and rice and peas spread out on white china plates on a red-and-white patterned plastic tablecloth -- not to mention sweet potato pudding and spice cabbage -- and encouraged him to take second helping.. | macbeth | Neil Gaiman | |
| 964b47e | The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 585923c | Fox was here first, and his brother was the wolf. Fox said, people will live forever. If they die they will not die for long. Wolf said, no, people will die, people must die, all things that live must die, or they will spread and cover the world, and eat all the salmon and the caribou and the buffalo, eat all the squash and all the corn. Now one day Wolf died, and he said to the fox, quick, bring me back to life. And Fox said, No, the dead .. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c93cf8f | Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 25c69c8 | But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat. | humour funny terry-prachett good-omens neil-gaiman | Terry Prachett talking about Neil Gaiman | |
| 58ccd09 | Are you scared?' asked Mr. Ibis. 'Not really.' 'Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2691329 | The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people. | Peter Straub | ||
| 8cfecfe | There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, " " Or worse, feeling interrupted and tired, "Wha--?" | Lorrie Moore | ||
| c95dac4 | the truly humble cannot be humbled. They are immune to humiliation. They have nothing to defend. There is no vulnerability and, therefore, the truly humble do not experience critical attacks by others. Instead, a truly humble person sees the critical verbalization by another person as merely a statement of the other person's inner problems. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| a1ae309 | How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?" "I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language," Dan said. "Like ow. Or- you're stepping on my foot." "That's universal?" "No, you're stepping on my foot. Ow." Amy moved." | dan-cahill | Jude Watson | |
| 27536a2 | Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing. | happiness complaining control | Wayne W. Dyer | |
| 2ba95d4 | Most people don't have the patience to absorb their minds in the fine points and minutiae that are intrinsically part of their work. They are in a hurry to create effects and make a splash; they think in large brush strokes. Their work inevitably reveals their lack of attention to detail - it doesn't connect deeply with the public, and it feels flimsy. | rushed-work results | Robert Greene | |
| e74cbdd | The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path--any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation. | Robert Greene | ||
| cb121be | if no resistances or obstacles face you, you must create them. No seduction can proceed without them. | Robert Greene | ||
| fa9f3b0 | My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me. | dreams god-s-will | Stormie Omartian | |
| fa55ec0 | When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c948346 | Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart." | William Goldman | ||
| 03cf16a | But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something. | William Goldman | ||
| eb619c4 | I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me. | the-godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| 47846e3 | Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes. | the-godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| 907dfba | If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, "This sucks. I'm going to do my own thing." | Yvon Chouinard |