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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9039abf | Hell is when we look back during the fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at the moment "I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I Lived my life and did what I had to do" | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 5fd2a3f | Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| cdb1586 | Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation. | the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| 956e0db | Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9cc192e | I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e56925a | Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?' 'Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame? | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 7b940e3 | If what one finds is made of pure matter; it will never spoil. and one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing in return. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a277121 | kn llm`lm my't ltlmydh ySlwn jmy`m fy s`@ mHdd@ bstthn wHd ykwn thml Twl lwqt. fy 'Hd l'ym sh`r lm`lm 'n s`th qtrbt, fd` lskyr wnql lyh 'thmn m`rfh mm 'thr skhT lbqyyn, fHjtw qy'lyn : y ll`r! lqd DHyn b'nfsn mn 'jl m`lm m`twh y`jr `n lqrr bmzyn f'jbhm lm`lm: "kn `ly 'n 'kshf srry ljl '`rfh Hq lm`rf@. wly'k ldhyn tbdw `lyhm ltqw~ Glb m ysttr fyhm lkbr wl'nny@ wltzmt wlhdh lsbb khtrt lrjl lwHyd ly yZhr `ybh `lnan: `yb lthml@." | دين فكر حكم حكمة مكتوب نفاق | Paulo Coelho | |
| 1beb3da | When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| bf1732e | Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4947c56 | Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.) | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 9418c0e | Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 282aa6b | You'd better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I'm talking about. You're lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 5d5dbcb | I see you are looking at my feet," he said to her when car was in motion. "I beg your pardon?" said the woman. "I said I see you're looking at my feet". "I beg your pardon. I happened to be looking at the floor," said the woman, and faced the doors of the car. "If you want to look at my feet, say so," said the young man. "But don't be a God-damned sneak about it." "Let me out here, please," the woman said quickly to the girl operating the c.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 3c589be | If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 53f44ae | If you're going to go to war against the System, just do your shooting like a nice, intelligent girl eu because the enemy's there, and not because you don't like his hairdo or his goddamn necktie. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| eb26581 | Did you ever get fed up?" I said. "I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something? I mean do you like school and all that stuff?" "It's a terrific " "I mean do you hate it? I know it's a terrific bore, but do you it, is what I mean." "Well, I don't exactly it. You always have to--" "Well, hate it. Boy, do I hate it," I said. "But it isn't just that. It's everything. I hate living in New .. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 29a37c3 | You can all supply your own favorite, most nauseating examples of the commodification of love. Mine include the wedding industry, TV ads that feature cute young children or the giving of automobiles as Christmas presents, and the particularly grotesque equation of diamond jewelry with everlasting devotion. The message, in each case, is that if you love somebody you should buy stuff. A related phenomenon is the ongoing transformation, courte.. | like liking love | Jonathan Franzen | |
| fa15a0c | The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 9cc01dd | Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 99a47c0 | T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 84a2667 | Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer. | perfection | Thomas Moore | |
| fe71015 | Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 414bb03 | Some people don't respond to civility. | James Ellroy | ||
| 09aa5fe | The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied resp.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 0929069 | Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| bc9e922 | Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| ed1066b | Om is the bow, the arrow is soul, | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6124a47 | The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 79e640a | There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suf.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 9031950 | So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. The dragons are dangerous, yes. They can do harm, yes. But they're not evil. They're beneath our morality, if you will, like any animal. Or beyond it. They have nothing to do with it. We must choose and choose again. Th.. | choice good-and-evil morality | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 8232090 | Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it's right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the social organism does. But no society can change the nature of its existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering - unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality. | suffering | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 1b6f45f | One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a1a4485 | One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness... Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4ded038 | For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 887a3c4 | To oppose something is to maintain it. They say here "all roads lead to Mishnory." To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk in a different road." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7ffc099 | They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas. | happiness omelas unknown walk-away | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| be3454e | Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on. | walls | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 6ee3e75 | The best I can say, it's like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell ... It's hard and strong, that shell, and it's all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that's all. That's all there is. A woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into th.. | fantasy-fiction manhood men womanhood women | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| ab43927 | The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. | goodness | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| da0ba28 | There are those who seek me a lifetime but never we meet, And those i kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet. At times i seem to favor the clever and the fair, But i bless all those who are brave enough to dare. By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet, But scorned, i become a difficult beast to defeat. For though my strikes lands a powerful blow, When i kill, I do it slow.... | amarantha-s-riddle feyre tamlin | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b0380fb | She didn't care what this group wanted with her. She didn't care what sort of information they expected to twist from her. When they had taken Chaol, they'd made the biggest mistake of their lives. The last mistake, too. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e0d9300 | Maybe I'm just unable to resist how handsome he is," she said. Sam went rigid. "He's twelve years older than you." "So?" He didn't think he was serious, did he?" | sam | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6e88e5f | Oh it drives him insane," Rhys said from behind me, and I jumped. But the High Lord was circling me. I crossed my arms as he paused and smirked. "You look like a woman again." "You really know how to compliment females, cousin," Mor said, and patted him on the shoulder as she spotted an acquaintance and went to say hello." | Sarah J. Maas |