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| e787075 | And, Legolas, when the torches are kindled and men walk on the sandy floors under the echoing domes, ah! Then, Legolas, gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows through folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hands of Queen Galadriel. There are columns of white and saffron and dawn-rose, Legolas, fluted and twisted into dreamlike forms; they spring up from many-coloured floor.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0233801 | He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9946e54 | But the Queen Arwen said: 'A gift I will give you. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him now when he departs to the Havens; for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so I have chosen, both the sweet and the bitter. But in my stead you shall go, Ring-bearer, when the time comes, and if you then desire it. If your hurts grieve you still and the memory or your burden is heavy, then you may pass into the West, until all y.. | queen-arwen frodo ring-bearer the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king j-r-r-tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| fefedaf | Drei Ringe den Elbenkonigen hoch im Licht, Sieben den Zwergenherrschern in ihren Hallen aus Stein, Den Sterblichen, ewig dem Tode verfallen, neun, Einer dem Dunklen Herrn auf dunklem Thron Im Lande Mordor, wo die Schatten drohn. Ein Ring, sie zu knechten, sie alle zu finden, Ins Dunkel zu treiben und ewig zu binden Im Lande Mordor, wo die Schatten drohn | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2983235 | Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 97de884 | For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it. | Herman Melville | ||
| 6e74501 | I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. | Herman Melville | ||
| 88115b0 | Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 65cc46b | My waiter friend, Laurent, working at the Brasserie Champs du Mars near the Eiffel Tower, one night while serving me Une Grande Beer, explained his life. "I work from ten to twelve hours, sometimes fourteen," he says, "and then at midnight I go dancing, dancing, dancing until four or five in the morning and go to bed and sleep until ten and then up, up and to work by eleven and another ten or twelve or sometimes fifteen hours of work." "How.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| d7ee4f4 | If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy, or both. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 71f695f | Nobody moved. Everybody sat in the dark cellar, suspended in the suddenly frozen task of this October game; the wind blew outside, banging the house, the smell of pumpkins and apples filled the room with smell of the objects in their fingers while one boy cried, "I'll go upstairs and look!" and he ran upstairs hopefully and out around the house, four times around the house, calling, "Marion, Marion, Marion!" over and over and at last coming.. | october halloween | Ray Bradbury | |
| 96a7ef8 | The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day." "Good." "They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and . But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you e.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 804647f | This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e3a3e05 | The grass whispered under his body. He put his arm down, feeling the sheath of fuzz on it, and, far away, below, his toes creaking in his shoes. The wind sighed over his shelled ears. The world slipped bright over the glassy round of his eyeballs like images sparked in a crystal sphere. Flowers were sun and fiery spots of sky strewn through the woodland. Birds flickered like skipped stones across the vast inverted pond of heaven. His breath.. | summertime | Ray Bradbury | |
| b45c890 | Hope was all that stood between them and death. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 5690a09 | The inward man is faced with a new and often dramatic task: He must come to terms with the inner tremendum. Since the God 'out there' or 'up there' is more or less dissolved in the many secular structures, the God within asks attention as never before. And just as the God outside could be experienced not only as a loving father but also as a horrible demon, the God within can be not only the source of a new creative life but also the cause .. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 912da8d | To care means first of all to empty our own cup and to allow the other to come close to us. It means to take away the many barriers which prevent us from entering into communion with the other. When we dare to care, then we discover that nothing human is foreign to us, but that all the hatred and love, cruelty and compassion, fear and joy can be found in our own hearts. When we dare to care, we have to confess that when others kill, I could.. | mankind jesus empathy community church experience | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| a1620e5 | There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 1d4d9da | You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all. | poetry love tolerance | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 80d133f | Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. | seasons grief sorrow joy life acceptance serenity | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 5c7d124 | Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. | David Allen | ||
| 018f839 | You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented. | resource-allocation planning strategy | Clayton M. Christensen | |
| 9db9d52 | The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time-- | feudalism government power democracy | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| da4edeb | Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven't let her take away my will to somehow survive. | hope survival | Dave Pelzer | |
| a768a5a | The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 457df29 | The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| 34ec339 | There's the opposite of love at first sight. There are people walking the earth that the moment you meet them, you want to punch them and keep punching them. | Richard Kadrey | ||
| a8ec1a1 | There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| b8a544e | It would all be done with keys on alphanumeric keyboards that stood for weightless, invisible chains of electronic presence or absence. If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths? It would have to be up one le.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 51ecb35 | This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 3e65d6b | George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his." | suffering george-macdonald | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 7baabe3 | But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home? | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| a743c37 | when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 05272dd | Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! | pain | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 40d61b7 | You're the proverbial diamond in the rough. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 0a69860 | I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 2ecb95d | lq`d@ lthny@ tqwl b'n l`Tr y`ysh m` lzmn , flh mrHl shbbh wnDjh wshykhwkhth wfqT `ndm ytkhT~ mrHl l`mr lmkhtlf@ mHfZ `l~ ryjh blwtyr@ dhth y`tbr `Tr njH . | Patrick Süskind | ||
| e4a3501 | He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world! | solitude | Patrick Süskind | |
| 3fd09bb | bws` lbshr 'n yGmDw '`ynhm 'mm mhw `Zym 'w jmyl, w'n yGlqw adhnhm 'mm l'lHn wlklm lm`swl wlkn lys bws`hm lhrwb mn l`bq l'nh shqyq lshhyq, m`h ydkhl l~ dhwthm, wlystTy`wn SdWh n rGbw blbq `l~ qyd lHy@, nh ydkhl l~ '`mqhm, l~ lqlb mbshr@, Hyth ytm lfSl lHsm byn lmyl lyh 'w Htqrh, byn lqrf mnh 'w lrGb@ fyh, byn Hbh 'w krhh. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 9fbc852 | And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 5d2577e | Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 --and all that followed-- was already laid in those first words. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4b18b7a | You say their stories, it is gift they give you. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 3a950b6 | It was madness.Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 05fe6de | God has granted you a special talent. It's now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey. | Khaled Hosseini |