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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b7898ad | We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 7ecda2a | Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| dd54e83 | A man can laugh while he suffers. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 794de3c | We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not. | humanity | Elie Wiesel | |
| 3d4b6d6 | We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark. | sacred-spark trust | Elie Wiesel | |
| 01eaa7e | And then some guy wandering as lost as you would all of a sudden be right before your eyes, his face bigger and clearer than you ever saw a man's face before in your life. Your eyes were working so hard to see in that fog that when something did come in sight every detail was ten times as clear as usual, so clear both of you had to look away. When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, becau.. | one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest | Ken Kesey | |
| d076948 | I been away a long time. | Ken Kesey | ||
| b2cdf35 | Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps...As prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters. As a shiny new ax, taking a swing at somebody's next year's split.. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 58fadd3 | His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It hurt to breathe. | Kevin Henkes | ||
| 7c165c2 | They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning. | smiles | Tom Robbins | |
| 6d625f6 | The most important thing in life is style. That is the style of one s existence the characteristic mode of one s actions is basically ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing then style is doubly definitive because style describes the doing. The point is this happiness is a learned condition. And since it is learned and self generating it does not depend upon external circumstances for its perpetuation. This throws a ver.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 32967a2 | If a person leads an 'active' life, as Wiggs had, if a person has goals, ideals, a cause to fight for, then that person is distracted, temporarily, from paying a whole lot of attention to the heavy scimitar that hangs by a mouse hair just about his or her head. We, each of us, have a ticket to ride, and if the trip be interesting (if it's dull, we have only ourselves to blame), then we relish the landscape (how quickly it whizzes by!), inte.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5fe1519 | The day of the full moon, when the moon is neither increasing nor decreasing, the Babylonians called Sa-bat, meaning "heart-rest." It was believed that on this day, the woman in the moon, Ishtar, as the moon goddess was known in Babylon, was menstruating, for in Babylon, as in virtually every ancient and primitive society, there had been since the earliest times a taboo against a woman working, preparing food, or traveling when she was pass.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| e8e0067 | You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I've learned that it isn't necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It's a game, right? It's like being paid for dreaming. | dreaming knowledge | Tom Robbins | |
| 1ac29f7 | And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks | existence fairness life universe | Tom Robbins | |
| a88a008 | The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions (anger, jealousy, etc) to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, ou.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4c02114 | All dreams continue in the beyond. | thought-provoking | Tom Robbins | |
| d75802d | Fear limits love | Tom Robbins | ||
| 8f0bbf2 | Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It's going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging. | Brené Brown | ||
| d13bee9 | As I look back on what I've learned about shame, gender, and worthiness, the greatest lesson is this: If we're going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of what we're supposed to be is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly. | Brené Brown | ||
| e1e4de0 | Now I understand that in order to feel a true sense of belonging, I need to bring the real me to the table and that I can only do that if I'm practicing self-love. For years I thought it was the other way around: I'll do whatever it takes to fit in, I'll feel accepted, and that will make me like myself better. Just typing those words and thinking about how many years I spent living that way makes me weary. No wonder I was tired for so long! | Brené Brown | ||
| 6be7b40 | There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage. | Brené Brown | ||
| caefa7a | Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving for excellence. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth. Perfectionism is a defensive move. It's the belief that if we do things perfectly and look perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgment, and shame. | Brené Brown | ||
| 7af5272 | Research shows that playing cards once a week or meeting friends every Wednesday night at Starbucks adds as many years to our lives as taking beta blockers or quitting a pack-a-day smoking habit. | Brené Brown | ||
| 4cf92c4 | We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever. | Brené Brown | ||
| 24eeadc | If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth. | Brené Brown | ||
| 0dd9896 | Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart. | David Guterson | ||
| 452d877 | I love my husband like a pig loves shit. | Julie Powell | ||
| 508a647 | It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart--never the sensation of the moment. | memory | Roger Zelazny | |
| a20f611 | Pride is something only folk with money can afford. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 55b8719 | Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats. | faithful horses humour moonlight | Tamora Pierce (Author) | |
| e8923ca | Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for. | war | Tamora Pierce | |
| 9a795e5 | Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. | nature trees | Michael Pollan | |
| 2ef7ded | I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace. | libraries library | Marilyn Johnson | |
| b2281d9 | Bibliomancy: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up." | Marilyn Johnson | ||
| 78d2b45 | Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve? | meaning reality | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 1363489 | No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there is none, and hope is entirely fled, anguish often turns a man into a monster. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e0a8e8d | how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken. | love missing-someone pain people relationships sadness unbearable | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e6cf1ae | Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0569f7c | I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1b83f20 | to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them. | depression earth escape fear horror misery mother sleep sorrow suicide terror | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 93971a3 | lys ykf~ lmr 'n ykwn dhk~Wa l`ql Ht~ l yukhd`, bl lbd lh 'yDan mn qlb Hss. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0b28340 | I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. | heart psychology punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 664fe68 | I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's.. | health over-specialization science | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |