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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 65db9ea | You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right. | David Gemmell | ||
| c7e0ac2 | There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket. | inspirational | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 2d3fdf5 | To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7c6856b | A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 767e750 | A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire .. | grace love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 820bdeb | A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5885755 | You can resist the seductions of grandiosity, blame, and shame. You can support other people in their creative efforts, acknowledging the truth that there's plenty of room for everyone. You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures. You can battle your demons (through therapy, recovery, prayer, or humility) instead of battling your gifts--in part by realizing that your demons were never the on.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5301c0e | But the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c7ba689 | You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 509d7d6 | But. My hammer," said Thor. "Shut up, Thor," said Loki" | thor | Neil Gaiman | |
| 224bc32 | When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6455090 | We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c01535d | 'Door,' called Richard. 'Don't do it. Don't set it free. We don't matter.' 'Actually,' said the marquis, 'I matter very much. But I have to agree. Don't do it.' | london-below wise-guys | Neil Gaiman | |
| d0a13e1 | Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me. | memory | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6123fc7 | You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2e0ee6e | And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1487f82 | Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. | religion | Neil Gaiman | |
| 895fdff | And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take t.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 90143c6 | It's an artist's job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 29e0a5d | Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson. | Ann Beattie | ||
| 16ac7d2 | Her life] had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| ffef34f | The other person merely mirrors back what we are projecting onto them. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 34a855a | Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?" | Jude Watson | ||
| 2185414 | I am not worried if scientists go and explain everything. This is for a very simple reason: an impala sprinting across the Savannah can be reduced to biomechanics, and Bach can be reduced to counterpoint, yet that does not decrease one iota our ability to shiver as we experience impalas leaping or Bach thundering. We can only gain and grow with each discovery that there is structure underlying the most accessible levels of things that fill .. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 66fbde5 | You like to imagine yourself in control of your fate, consciously planning the course of your life as best you can. But you are largely unaware of how deeply your emotions dominate you. They make you veer toward ideas that soothe your ego. They make you look for evidence that confirms what you already want to believe. They make you see what you want to see, depending on your mood, and this disconnect from reality is the source of the bad de.. | Robert Greene | ||
| c28daa2 | Time passes, but sometimes it beats the shit out of you as it goes. | John Sandford | ||
| e059d25 | Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 102c1fd | You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue. | beautiful competitive-issue good life true | Mitch Albom | |
| 27d079f | Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 13d5aa8 | To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 958673e | You don't know how to live until you learn how to die. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7593e68 | For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b29d747 | YOU TAKA MY SPACE I BREAKA YOUR FACE | Mitch Albom | ||
| bd90589 | In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly." | John Scalzi | ||
| 7539901 | The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority. | majority minority | Philip K. Dick | |
| de4dfe1 | It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 5353207 | Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I got a better offer someplace else," and there they go, out of your life forever, and after that until you're dead you're carrying around this huge hunk of love with no one to give it to. And if you do find someone to give it to, the same thing happens all over." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b3dbf2e | I feel the hot winds of karma driving me. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0a67cf7 | Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 18fbc61 | When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f5977f7 | Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well. A portion of him turns against him and acts like another person, defeating him from inside. A man inside a man. Which is no man at all. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| ccc8261 | Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man. | hell human-nature instinct | Philip K. Dick | |
| 6206131 | Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don't commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn't be alone. It's killing you; it's undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| cc202cd | Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer. | Philip K. Dick |