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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2b0fbe0 | Forgive yourself. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 04cf02d | I worked because I could control it. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2509a67 | We all know how to be a child. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4943ce5 | By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb--more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here--andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories. | Mitch Albom | ||
| c6267ba | It's the same thing with faith, by the way." We don't want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don't want to commit to God. We'll take Him when we need Him, or when things are going good. But real commitment? That requires staying power---in faith and in marriage." And if you don't commit? I asked. "Your choice. But you miss what's on the other side." What's on the other side? "Ah." He s.. | god happiness marriage mitch-albom religion | Mitch Albom | |
| 53d759a | It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 349d4a7 | Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9b66e24 | What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him? | Joseph Heller | ||
| f039c19 | Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over. | Wanda Sykes | ||
| ce4b2e6 | She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted for infinitely more than a vigorously healthy balance sheet. In fact, she thought, annual accounts should include an item specifically headed Happiness, alongside expenses and receipts and the like. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| c20412f | There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. | truth | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| d12409a | You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about, and leave someone on Earth wishing me well, than to be stubborn and have that someone hoping that some alien would slurp out my brains. Call it karmic insurance. | apologize care closure cost earth feel insurance karmic people stubborn well | John Scalzi | |
| 688c8a0 | kl shy' yuwSl Hyth lm`hwd@ k'n shyy'an lm yHdth. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f3773f8 | You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 3c6bbb9 | To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, .. | Epictetus | ||
| 7b1dd52 | Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time. | purpose-of-life | Jeannette Walls | |
| 04a86d7 | Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy," Mom told me. "You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 609f702 | It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 31e6d04 | I felt best when I was on the move, going someplace rather than being there. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| acb7698 | From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else's. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else's, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to con.. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 35cfca2 | Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 6bf3c24 | Clevinger is a very bright guy, a Harvard man, who knows everything about literature except how to enjoy it. | Joseph Heller | ||
| ae06d60 | He could not make them understand that...having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 3f4a0b4 | His response to them as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments of pleasure too powerful to be measured, too keen to be endured, and too exquisite to be intended for employment by base, unworthy man. He could interpret their naked presence in his hands only as a cosmic oversight destined to be rectified speedily, and he was driven always to.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 24e8daa | Yossarian's attitude toward his roommates turned merciful and protective at the mere recollection of Captain Black. It was not their fault that they were young and cheerful, he reminded himself as he carried the swinging beam of his flashlight back through the darkness. He wished that he could be young and cheerful, too. And it wasn't their fault that they were courageous, confident and carefree. He would just have to be patient with them u.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 51f7457 | The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good could come from evil. But he did feel good; he felt positively marvelous. Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from duty could not be sins. "The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of prot.. | wisdom | Joseph Heller | |
| fdb8a4b | It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody? | Joseph Heller | ||
| 14d5368 | Why don't you use some sense and try to be more like me? You might live to be a hundred and seven, too." "Because it's better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees," Nately retorted with triumphant and lofty conviction. "I guess you've heard that saying before." "Yes, I certainly have," mused the treacherous old man, smiling again. "But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That.. | inspirational | Joseph Heller | |
| 0739dc9 | The heart is an organ of perception. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| 134f062 | For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go of what we want so badly and our life will unfold. For love is everywhere. | Mark Nepo | ||
| b2bfe48 | Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way. | Mark Nepo | ||
| a69df4d | He loved her manner of sleepy acquiescence when they lay on the beach at dusk. He drew solace and sedation from her nearness. He had a craving to touch her always, to remain always in physical communication. He liked to encircle her ankle loosely with his fingers...to lightly and lovingly caress the downy skin of her fair, smooth thigh with the backs of his nails or dreamily, sensuously, almost unconsciously, slide his proprietary, respectf.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 0ba165b | It sure is a pleasure not having Flume around in the mess hall any more. No more of that 'Pass the salt, Walt.'" "Or 'Pass the bread, Fred.'" "Or 'Shoot me a beet, Pete." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 2cc6d5d | Colonel Cathcart is our commanding officer and we must obey him. Why don't you fly four more missions and see what happens?" "I don't want to." "Suppose we let you pick your missions and fly milk runs?" Major Major said. "That way you can fly the four missions and not run any risks." "I don't want to fly milk runs. I don't want to be in the war anymore." "Would you like to see our country lose?" Major Major asked. "We won't lose. We've got .. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 79923f6 | All you've got to do is lie there a few minutes and die a little. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 50de42e | They think that they're smart and that the rest of us are dumb. | Joseph Heller | ||
| a1f59d6 | But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That is the way the saying goes. | Joseph Heller | ||
| d14a843 | They began to invent humourless, glum jokes of their own and disastrous rumours about the destruction awaiting them at Bologna. Yossarian sidled up drunkenly to Colonel Korn at the officers' club one night to kid with him about the new Lepage gun that the Germans had moved in. 'What Lepage gun?' Colonle Korn inquired with curiousity. 'The new three-hundred-and-forty-four-millimeter Lepage glue gun,' Yossarian answered. 'It glues a whole for.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| df7c462 | Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c6f083b | Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing. | Michael Crichton | ||
| adb44e6 | The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 524fd76 | For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 4388225 | Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. | sleep | William Shakespeare | |
| a6f265f | I can only hope that, upon learning of my imminent execution, Good Samaritans in Colorado will be moved to ship me a plump love apple from their backyard patch - and should they happen to be friendly with Hunter S. Thompson, perhaps persuade him to inject it with a little something beforehand. Hunter will know just what I mean, and trust me, it won't affect the taste of the tomato.* *When I wrote those lines, Thompson was alive and blooming.. | Tom Robbins |