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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 456eccc | The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 67dc250 | Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. | faith spirituality religion science dan-brown | Dan Brown | |
| 0a8416d | Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science.. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the devine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God! | Dan Brown | ||
| 85332ad | We are , and yet we naively play the role of "the ." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential." | thoughts religion philosophy katherine-solomon the-human-mind | Dan Brown | |
| 3d4cc02 | Codes and patterns are very different from each other," Langdon said. "And a lot of people confuse the two. In my field, it's crucial to understand their fundamental difference." "That being?" Langdon stopped walking and turned to her. "A pattern is any distinctly organized sequence. Patterns occur everywhere in nature--the spiraling seeds of a sunflower, the hexagonal cells of a honeycomb, the circular ripples on a pond when a fish jumps, .. | Dan Brown | ||
| 2d72c51 | There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. | Dan Brown | ||
| 6d4c48b | What's the matter?'' She immediately started laughin. ''What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter! | Dan Brown | ||
| 49f605a | We are now perched on a strange cusp of history, a time when the world feels like it's been turned upside down, and nothing is quite as we imagined. But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness. | origin | Dan Brown | |
| bc239d3 | Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer. | pyramid | Dan Brown | |
| 7cbaba1 | I don't think she's ever coming back. | V. C. Andrews | ||
| d8d2d2c | Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. | motivational law-of-attraction | Napoleon Hill | |
| b03cd8d | Sometimes life is a feast with eggs Benedict & hollandaise sauce, waffles & strawberries, sausage links & hashed brown potatoes. And sometimes life is scrambled eggs. In the end, your stomach gets full all the same. And years from now, you may not remember exactly what you ate. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| ee04d78 | Those were the days when dreams were sweet and life was sweeter still. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 5ad1d76 | And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people! | John Grisham | ||
| daa000e | I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 937e83e | If you cannot recognize the problem, there is no way that I could explain it to you." He laughed, damn the man. "My goodness," he said, "that was an expert sidestep." | Julia Quinn | ||
| d45d431 | Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty. He could picture himself a very happy man at that table. "Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?" Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies." | romance humor julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| 461bff3 | Miss. My. Wife. | wife | Julia Quinn | |
| 855c89d | There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she'd looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 34ebed4 | Don't tell me your name. It's likely to awaken my conscience, and that's the last thing we want. | Julia Quinn | ||
| fd6e6c5 | Oh, very well, do you want to know why I really think you should keep a journal?" She nodded. "Because someday you're going to grow into yourself, and you will be as beautiful as you already are smart." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 7d9954b | Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me. | James Frey | ||
| 5000d12 | Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you.... | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| ffc7d6c | I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think people have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if y.. | life | James Frey | |
| 8f5b60f | humankind's presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer | John Gray | ||
| 33b2cb4 | The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her. | motherhood writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| 9c0a984 | At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself. (If I were part of a team, I'd call a team meeting.) I ask myself, again, of the project: "What is this damn thing about?" Keep refining your understanding of the theme; keep narrowing it down." | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 90b37e5 | When I desire you a part of me is gone. | Anne Carson | ||
| 67b16b4 | She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided th.. | sailing seafaring sail ship sea water pirates | Philip Pullman | |
| 1d32a26 | Pienso ahora hasta que punto el amor enceguece y que magico poder de transformacion tiene. !La hermosura del mundo! | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 46756c0 | Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity? | psychopath society | Jon Ronson | |
| eb05aa4 | He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. [...] If I had been him, I would have been reading your books every time you laid them down to see how I could improve my skills and please you. Second warning of the night. I bought a couple." You bought a couple of what?" Historical romances. I'm three-quarters through the first one." He flashed her a slow grin. "All I can say is, I l.. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| fc20f69 | It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1) | Jack London | ||
| 9f9fe8c | I was jealous; therefore I loved. | Jack London | ||
| baff6f8 | She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 9095427 | I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 20e0ea0 | We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped." | family differ estranged sisters | Charles Dickens | |
| d8d9778 | It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse. | pragmatism values | Charles Dickens | |
| fced219 | Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 1663ec8 | This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life. | Charles Dickens | ||
| a2a9169 | I marvel at these young people: drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If they are asked what they did yesterday, they aren't embarrassed: they bring you up to date in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd fall all over myself. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 9dc309f | J'ai commence ma vie comme je la finirai sans doute : au milieu des livres. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| d9541cc | I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my throat, it caresses me- and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| da8fcac | Something has happened to me, I can't doubt it any more. It came as an illness does, not like an ordinary certainty, not like anything evident. It came cunningly, little by little; I felt a little strange, a little put out, that's all. Once established it never moved, it stayed quiet, and I was able to persuade myself that nothing was the matter with me, that it was a false alarm. And now, it's blossoming. | nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre |