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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9517db2 | Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them. | Paul Auster | ||
| aac4362 | Every man is the author of his own life. | life | Paul Auster | |
| 1d22d1f | Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none." | Lois Lowry | ||
| a762082 | The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell. | William Golding | ||
| 0b843cc | We're not savages. We're English. | William Golding | ||
| b69a5d5 | My little brother's greatest fear was that the one person who meant so much to him would go away. He loved Lindsey and Grandma Lynn and Samuel and Hal, but my father kept him stepping lightly, son gingerly monitoring father every morning and every evening as if, without such vigilance, he would lose him. We stood- the dead child and the living- on either side of my father, both wanting the same thing. To have him to ourselves forver. To ple.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| bc5a4d9 | The more you look, the more you see. | Pirsig Robert M. | ||
| bffff0f | It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says. | great-minds life madmen purpose-of-life rationality | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| ca50c2c | Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the sense of an activity going step by step to some chosen end across a span of time. The work of cooking a meal was like a closed circle, completed and gone, leading nowhere. But the work of building a path was a living sum, so that no day was left to die behind her, but each day contained all those that preceded it, each day acquired.. | nature purpose | Ayn Rand | |
| 295a5ea | Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... | atheism capitalism causality commerce constitution crisis drugs economics economy force freedom government individual-rights jobs law liberty life love objective-law philosophy political-philosophy pursuit-of-happiness reason regulation rock-and-roll sex slavery society trade tyranny usa volition wealth | Ayn Rand | |
| c181c86 | The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 2460c6f | The trouble with dying," she'd told Jeannie once, "is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending." -- | Anne Tyler | ||
| a6bc060 | When you have children, you're obligated to live. | Anne Tyler | ||
| aae6299 | things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice. | science universe | Brian Greene | |
| ad86520 | Stephen had been put to sleep in his usual room, far from children and noise, away in that corner of the house which looked down to the orchard and the bowling-green, and in spite of his long absence it was so familiar to him that when he woke at about three he made his way to the window almost as quickly as if dawn had already broken, opened it and walked out onto the balcony. The moon had set: there was barely a star to be seen. The still.. | music | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 451c675 | This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins." -- | king-arthur knights love magic merlin wisdom | John Steinbeck | |
| 71f794c | In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry. So often men trip by being in a rush. If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely and concentrate solely on the means. By this method he would not be moved to false action by anxiety or hurry or fear. Very .. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5ffdd4a | Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.' 'We take a beatin' all the time.' 'I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'. | poor rich the-grapes-of-wrath | John Steinbeck | |
| 5670c0c | When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 65535f8 | Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry. | life lifestyle | Nora Roberts | |
| 28087c8 | a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 8452fb4 | I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now I'm taking what's left." "You didn't give me up," she tossed back. "You never wanted me." "I never wanted anything the way I wanted you. I loved you." He dragged her painfully to her toes. "I've always loved you. I cut my own heart out when I sen.. | romance the-reef | Nora Robertsrts | |
| 472b461 | Don't give up on your own happy-evers. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4e1cf18 | A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe. | fremen-saying | Frank Herbert | |
| 0ff6cd6 | The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge. | luxury paradise softness survivalism weakness | Frank Herbert | |
| 09d8ee6 | People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. | failure-relationship marriage marriage-life marriage-preparation relationships-advice | Gary Chapman | |
| 5e9c26b | Hardly. Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. | Dan Brown | ||
| ec19b82 | Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?" Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second." | Dan Brown | ||
| cf890f4 | Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way. | changed doll fair fragile fragility gone made obstacles porcelain she someone steel turned-into used-to-be wants | V.C. Andrews | |
| 76239f2 | The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind. | life limitation mind success | Napoleon Hill | |
| 646556e | Maturity is produced through relationships and community. | Rick Warren | ||
| eaa028c | Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make. | Rick Warren | ||
| e481755 | I'm in a castle standing in a tower, looking down through a window at the beautiful garden, the sun setting in the distance. The beauty in the moment brings tears to my eyes. Sky blue pink, the backdrop for roses in ever color blooming in the garden. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 8f57157 | I'm leaving!" she said, with, in her opinion, great drama and resolve. But he just answered her with a sly half smile, and said, "I'm following." And the bloody man remained two strides behind her the entire way home." -- | Julia Quinn | ||
| a96fda8 | sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can't quite explain. Sometimes it's just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 043939d | Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet" | Julia Quinn | ||
| b8c416b | Everyone has secrets. Especially me. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 5f1505a | No. really, what was the point? She could hardly top Version Fifteen, which had featured both vivisection and wild boar. | Julia Quinn | ||
| d66a576 | Resistance by definition is self-sabotage. | self-sabotage | Steven Pressfield | |
| 9c0b766 | I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose. | crayons | James Frey | |
| 13fa7e6 | I think men who can cry are strong men | James Frey | ||
| c689da4 | They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true. | James Frey | ||
| 8e5b5af | I stand, walk over to him, sit down on his bed, put my arms around him, hug him. He hugs me back strong and I can feel the shame coming through his arms. I am a Criminal and he is a Judge and I am white and he is black, but at this moment none of that matters. He is a man who needs a friends and I can be his friend. | james-frey | James Frey | |
| d73c1d2 | Today, for the mass of humanity, science and technology embody 'miracle, mystery, and authority'. Science promises that the most ancient human fantasies will at last be realized. Sickness and ageing will be abolished; scarcity and poverty will be no more; the species will become immortal. Like Christianity in the past, the modern cult of science lives on the hope of miracles. But to think that science can transform the human lot is to belie.. | John Gray |