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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6045a4f | I WONDER IF WHEN YOU DREAM ABOUT SOMEBODY THEY DREAM ABOUT YOU. | Louise Fitzhugh | ||
| a03d8bb | I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn't care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn't care, because none of them would ever own him--own any larger piece of him than I now did. | love romance starcrossed | Ian Fleming | |
| a7a2cae | They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 5c00224 | I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost. | regret | P.D. James | |
| 2446f17 | It wasn't always like this. There was a time when I imagined my life could happen in another way. It's true that early on I became used to the long hours I spent alone. I discovered that I did not need people as others did. After writing all day it took an effort to make conversation, like wading through cement, and often I simply chose not to make it, eating at a restaurant with a book or going for long walks alone instead, unwinding the s.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 622afd6 | The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 001417b | Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. | Bill Bryson | ||
| e164d97 | Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all. | Bill Bryson | ||
| f9e14e1 | Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 3ae7944 | Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 81ad1a5 | There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 1465a69 | It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters. | obeying puppeteers | Dan Simmons | |
| dd9b73c | This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us... | Dan Simmons | ||
| 774a6fc | I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| ebec8b9 | His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 5307e6f | There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 70b7541 | It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 0039459 | Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His. | Max Lucado | ||
| c4195d8 | The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3af91aa | I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy them, I'll be destroying myself, as well. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b4c6170 | The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being. | the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| f06ee84 | when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too. | paulo-coelho the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| c080ab5 | i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0aba1d9 | lyst lHry@ Gyb lltzmt, nm lqdr@ `l~ khtyr mhw 'fDl ly, wlzm nfsy bh | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a92f962 | Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn't live. Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: 'I wasted my life. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c6a6c67 | Quando se ama nao e preciso entender o que se passa la fora, pois tudo passa a acontecer dentro de nos | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e0d4467 | When she decided to get a job, she rejected a tempting offer from a company that had just been set up in her recently created country in favor of a job at the public library, where you didn't earn much money but where you were secure. She went to work every day, always keeping to the same timetable, always making sure she wasn't perceived as a threat by her superiors; she was content; she didn't struggle, and so she didn't grow: All she wan.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 606e7a1 | When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been, it's best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 5839a3e | I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does. | the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| bbf3300 | She wasn't afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was having to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant missing out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9025dfe | It hurt when I lost each the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a61e267 | You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 325f66c | Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e06dd03 | Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even mo.. | conquest death fear life | Paulo Coelho | |
| e373d3b | The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| dcda602 | And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 938699f | What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 7c9f782 | sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years w/out feeling anything new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 007bb0c | Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him. | goals inspiritional life-lessons | Paulo Coelho | |
| 4c836e0 | If I stay another day, I'll be here for another year. And if I stayed another year, I'll never leave. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 814ea3d | Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 23c2baa | tHt t'thyr lshGf , ntwqf `n lT`m wlnwm wl`ml wtkf Hmy'm lslm `n ltHlyq fwqn . thm@ ns kthyrwn ykhfwn mn lshGf , lnh ydmr f~ Tryqh kl m yt`lq blmD~ wl yrGb 'Hda mn f~ rw'y@ `lmh mnhr . ldh yHwl lkthyrwn lsyTr@ `l~ lkhTr ldh~ ythdd `lmhm wytwSlwn l~ lbq Smdyn 'mm l`Sf@ wh~ f~ 'ssh shbh blGbr . hw'l hm mhndsw l'shy lt~ tkhTh lzmn . | شغف | Paulo Coelho | |
| 76875ee | It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns." "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns." She was right, though. It is "If a body meet a body coming through the rye." I didn't know it then, though. "I thought it was 'If a body catch a body,'" I said. "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's aro.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 327d6f3 | Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. | J.D. Salinger |