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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a1eb249 | But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| c1f1f4e | It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d74e548 | Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better.' -Mr. Slinger | Kevin Henkes | ||
| fbd5f3e | It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse. | Tom Robbins | ||
| f5c15d0 | Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion the woods. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 7ae046b | I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let's think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow- that's vulnerability. Love is uncertain. It's incredibly risky. And loving someone leaves us .. | daring-greatly inspirational | Brené Brown | |
| 8fb09e7 | What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly." | Nora Roberts | ||
| c519bb0 | Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store's checkout girl grow horns. Imagine growing younger instead of older. Imagine feeling more powerful and more capable of falling in love with life every new day instead of being scared and sick and not knowing whether to stay under a sheet or venture forth into the cold. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3efcd88 | My mood has changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally... this mood where there's a very good friend nearby who I should be phoning. If only I could reach that friend and talk, then everything would be just fine. The dilemma is, of course, I just don't know who that friend is. But in my heart I know my mood is merely me feeling disconnected from my true inner self. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| c025bc8 | It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly." | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 5446b4a | I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even .. | consumer-culture end-of-the-word feudalism technology | Douglas Coupland | |
| 58661a9 | I wondered what it was to pray, because it was something I have never learned to do, and all I remember is falling. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 5969723 | You like all animals at that moment, although no doubt you will one day choose your favorites. Your own nature will triumph. We are all born with our natures. You popped out of your mother's belly, I saw your eyes, and I knew that you were already you. And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature--the core me--essentially hasn't changed over all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments be.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 520062d | What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 87b3fc8 | I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian. | journalism objectivity politics | Howard Zinn | |
| 6fc8dd6 | If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 1fe408b | You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 53bf6f8 | Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings. | friends homosexuality | Tamora Pierce | |
| 59226c3 | My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d75bdcb | Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9550ec1 | m 'kthr lshrwr lt~ ymkn 'n ntfdh blSrH@. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6692e36 | Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 205b3df | My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy. | suffering | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 3adb723 | lqd t`lmw lkdhb w 'Hbwh w `rfw mwTn ljml fyh ,rbm bd' l'mr bryy'an `l~ sbyl lmzH 'w lGnj w ld`b@ w ll`b . w Hqyq@ l'mr 'n lbdy@ knt dhr@ , w 'n dhr@ lkdhb tlk tsrbt l~ qlwbhm w '`jbthm ! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fb89fb1 | nWa lmr ltbr'u nfshu wtshf~ Hyna y`yshu m` l'Tfl! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 775d145 | Woe to the man who offends a small child! | children injury mistreatment small-children | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 3ba61c5 | Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt we'll ever come to terms on tastes great or less filling and hybrids versus Hummers, and there will always be Yankees fans and Red Sox fans, and never the 'twain shall meet. Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 1fc9b3e | God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 396dae8 | The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 2c214b8 | There are wolves within, and there are sheep without. | church | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| 1712970 | What do I love when I love my God? | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 7b1cfd8 | No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. | nazism nietzsche | Walter Kaufmann | |
| 944a0ed | Fire burns blue and hot. Its fair light blinds me not. Smell of smoke is satisfying, tastes nourishing to my tongue. I think fire ageless, never old, and yet no longer young. Morning coals are cool: daylight leaves me blind. I love the fire most because of what it leaves behind. | fire poem | Penny Reid | |
| 125c69e | The best stories, I feel, are those that are self-deprecating and involve some thread of irony. | Penny Reid | ||
| 282fdd6 | When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow. | poetry swoon | Penny Reid | |
| 2e6def4 | Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he'll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like. | inspirational janie love sweet | Penny Reid | |
| 85e8c04 | Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business. | leadership | John C. Maxwell | |
| 25fe2ce | The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others - not yourself - first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better? | leadership self-discipline | John C. Maxwell | |
| 31d92a1 | The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness. | contemplation thinking | John C. Maxwell | |
| 345669d | Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had really been made? Only the survivors--the living--could attest to it. In order to know that a person had truly laid down his life for his friends, or comrades, one would have to hear it from his own lips, or at least have heard it promised in ad.. | causes childhood christian-martyrs christianity comrades conscription death fanaticism friends kamikaze martyrdom martyrs masochism memorials november orwell patriotism poppies principles religion sacrifice self-abnegation self-importance soldiers suicide suicide-attack theocracy torture ugliness war | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 789fe6f | I'm going away anyway. I am. Do you hear me? I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I am not, I'm not retarded. I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I am not, I'm not retarded. There's nothing wrong with my brain. Do you know what the Teacher Ghosts say about me? They tell me I'm smart, and I can win scholarships. I can get into colleges. I've already applied. I'm smart. I can do all sorts of things. I know how to get A's, and they say .. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 6524567 | News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 704f60d | I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowled.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 1e0cd17 | For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified. | catholicism death incarnation resurrection | Flannery O'Connor |