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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8f7f150 | Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. | Brené Brown | ||
| 3cdc3d1 | Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 038e0e7 | Face it: You're always just a breath away from a job in telemarketing. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6e717cf | You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It is the realisation that the smiles that they wear in their daily lives are the same as the smiles worn by people who have been good-natu.. | nihilism ruined-youth | Douglas Coupland | |
| a00ced6 | You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling; stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0df1560 | How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before. | dry-humor humor | Douglas Coupland | |
| c3ffd8c | I don't understand beauty. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6083911 | Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They're an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| bb02f5f | I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 446bed3 | I think computers ought to have a key called I'M DRUNK, and when you push it, it prevents you from sending email for twelve hours. I've got another one: a key called FUCK OFF. You press it every time your computer does something annoying -- in turn this would somehow force your computer to experience pain. And if you pushed SHIFT/FUCK OFF, you'd end up with FUCK OFF AND DIE, the computer equivalent of a razor being raked across your nipples.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 133d987 | we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes. | crisis life philosophy | Douglas Coupland | |
| 263c4ef | Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3ce22ab | I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this exposure to every conceivable aspect of life - wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 46fad52 | But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can. | bumble-bee flying | Douglas Coupland | |
| 3a273c0 | Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 404c7b4 | A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 42dc143 | There's faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there's faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they're not entirely certain they're in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God's mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence. | god ignorance intolerance religion | R. Scott Bakker | |
| e889b8a | Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| aa046c5 | Then the one called Raltariki is really a demon?" asked Tak. "Yes--and no," said Yama, "If by 'demon' you mean a malefic, supernatural creature, possessed of great powers, life span and the ability to temporarily assume virtually any shape--then the answer is no. This is the generally accepted definition, but it is untrue in one respect." "Oh? And what may that be?" "It is not a supernatural creature." "But it is all those other things?" "Y.. | supernatural unknown wisdon | Roger Zelazny | |
| 8234f60 | Love is a negative form of hatred. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| e292378 | Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. | eternity free-will maturity melancholy pain reconciliation the-keys-to-december time | Roger Zelazny | |
| bf96a30 | Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver." "Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion." | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 59758c7 | Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 696d7b5 | If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr." | farmer-cape mastiff tamora-pierce | Tamora Pierce | |
| 446c70d | For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours. | Michael Pollan | ||
| f25bf37 | Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 0ba5009 | We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries. | libraries library | Marilyn Johnson | |
| 27143fe | Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in Thy name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 89b43bf | It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth! | positivism wisdom | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| dbe3747 | In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3896c2d | All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5406b80 | the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7b5a3d0 | lw 'mkn 'n ytwSl kl mn (whdh mstHyl bHkm lTby`@ lnsny@) l~ lkshf `n jmy` 'fkrh, l~ lkshf `n jmy` hdhh l'fkr dwn 'n ykhsh~ 'n yTl` lns l `l~ m yjrw' 'n yqwlh l'Hd, wl `l~ m yjrw' 'n yqwlh l'`z 'Sdqy'h fHsb, bl 'yD `l~ m ykhsh~ 'n y`trf bh 'Hyn lnfsh, lkhrjt mn l'rD `fwn@ tblG mn lntn@ 'nh tkhnqn jmy`. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ef101e2 | I want to suffer and be purified by suffering! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a17e10f | The body is literally manufactured and sustained by mind. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| c837010 | Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| ef60845 | The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 0f94304 | Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice. | writing-advice | Christopher Hitchens | |
| fd2b16b | Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 198e1d0 | said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human. | naturalisation united-states | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 84f5b26 | Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said as much to Edward. To reprint Nazi propaganda and to make a theocratic claim to Spanish soil was to be a protofascist and a supporter of 'Caliphate' imperialism: it had nothing at all to do with the mistreatment of the Palestinians. Once again, he did not exactly disagree. But he was anxious to emphasize that the.. | andalusia antisemitism ariel-sharon azmi-bishara baath-party balkans bill-clinton bosnia-and-herzegovina bosnian-war caliphate catholics chemical-weapons christians cia edward-said fanaticism fascism fatah gaza halabja halabja-poison-gas-attack hamas henry-kissinger imperialism iran islam islamism israel israelis knesset kosovo kosovo-war leftists muslims national-security nazism noam-chomsky oil palestinians plo politics-of-israel propaganda religious-extremism saddam-hussein spain takbir theocracy united-states war-crimes | Christopher Hitchens | |
| babbb62 | I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. | deification kim-jong-il north-korea personal-life privacy sadism worship | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 9885a9b | Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's. | forgiveness grudges memory savant-syndrome | Christopher Hitchens | |
| da6db94 | A qui ecris-tu? -A toi. En fait, je ne t'ecris pas vraiment, j'ecris ce que j'ai envie de faire avec toi... Il y avait des feuilles partout. Autour d'elle, a ses pieds, sur le lit. J'en ai pris une au hasard: "...Pique-niquer, faire la sieste au bord d'une riviere, manger des peches, des crevettes, des croissants, du riz gluant, nager, danser, m'acheter des chaussures, de la lingerie, du parfum, lire le journal, lecher les vitrines, prendre.. | couple love | Anna Gavalda |