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| f0eb470 | I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful | beauty literature philosophy | Oscar Wilde | |
| 81b2b39 | Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods - they worship us and keep bothering us to do something. | humour mythology | Oscar Wilde | |
| a931daf | We know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All we know who lie in gaol Is that the walls are strong And each day is like a year A year whose days are long. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| c34f6e0 | To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all. --Oscar Wilde | Adam Silvera | ||
| 45fc474 | Shared sorrow is lessened, shared joy is increased | Spider Robinson | ||
| 34d2e0e | The important question regarding spirituality is not which God you follow but are you true to your soul? Are you living a spiritual life? Are you a kind person here on earth, getting joy from your existence, causing no harm, and doing good to others? | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 5490925 | The number of days and years one lives on Earth is insignificant. It's the quality of those days and years that's important, quality measured in loving acts and achieved wisdom. 'Some people do more good in one day than others do in a hundred years.' This is their message. 'Every soul, every person is precious. Every person helped, every life aided or saved, is immeasurably valuable. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 0c971ce | 'ny lshy' l'S`b fy tkwyn thwr@ hw l'mn@ m` lnfs, wlrGb@ fy ltHrr mn mtb`@ lqTy`. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 1fadf68 | They get up every day and go work for money, not taking the time to ask the question, 'Is there another way? | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| ed7cdc2 | Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| bd388a0 | Time is so subjective, its measure totally dependent upon the means by which we mark its passage. When we follow the conventional milestones, meting out our lives with birthdays and graduations and anniversaries and funerals, we are left with voids along the way-vast stretches of empty space lost forever, never to be filled. As time grows short, the significance of each moment increases, until finally every heartbeat is of monumental import.. | Radclyffe | ||
| dbb75a4 | Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose provenance dates to the dim drama.. | Greg Iles | ||
| 43aa9ab | Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you -- and give it to you. | James A. Owen | ||
| 309b7ea | Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock dove whose echo resounds thro' the glen, Ye wild whistly blackbirds in yon thorny den, Thou green crested lapwing thy screaming forbear, I charge you, disturb not my slumbering fair. How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills, Far mark'd wi.. | nature poetry | Robert Burns | |
| 77fdb10 | James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too? | medicine men | Khaled Hosseini | |
| d84dcbc | I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot", or "That Claudius", or "Claudius the Stammerer", or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius", am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and co.. | Robert Graves | ||
| 30b61d0 | There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| dbbe381 | A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it--it keeps him upright. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 9b31c92 | Jubal shrugged. "Abstract design is all right-for wall paper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation. . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce- render emotional-his audience, each time. These ladies who won't deign to do that- an.. | modern-art | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 4362b94 | Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep. | sleep | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 32eb7d4 | doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 9007f9a | Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That's a law of nature, to be known henceforth as 'Harshaw's Law. | money | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| ad961be | We're simply trying to survive--and the first principle of survival is not to worry about the impossible and concentrate on what's possible. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 09f5dc0 | A man said to the universe, 'Sir, I exist!' 'Excellent,' replied the universe, 'I've been looking for someone to take care of my cats." | humor stephen-crane | Henry N. Beard | |
| 31647a6 | For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway," | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| b22b29d | That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 36806cc | The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 2845ba8 | If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything? ... | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 97ef1a9 | This was Brett that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and stepping into the car, as I had last seen her, and of course in a little while I felt like hell again. It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 3c21108 | This too to remember. If a man writes clearly enough any one can see if he fakes. If he mystifies to avoid a straight statement, which is very different from breaking so-called rules of syntax or grammar to make an efffect which can be obtained in no other way, the writer takes a longer time to be known as a fake and other writers who are afflicted by the same necessity will praise him in their own defense. True mysticism should not be conf.. | writing | Ernest Hemingway | |
| cdac2bc | She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 1f3deb0 | She didn't sound overjoyed. She didn't sound even slightly joyed. | humour romance romantic-comedy | Sarah Mayberry | |
| 2cabb89 | When I was a girl I had this strong feeling that I didn't belong anywhere,... It was in my head, what I thought and dreamt, what I believed..., that's where I belonged, that was my country. | Tim Winton | ||
| 9d22ad6 | the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over. | past | Tim Winton | |
| ccb34f6 | When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate. | fear-of-love hate lack-of-courage limiting-chances | Christopher Pike | |
| 609afc8 | When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing. | Christopher Pike | ||
| b256850 | When you understand a species' art, you understand that species. | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 8579350 | As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 8f8a38a | And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. | John G. Neihardt | ||
| 7ba32f2 | The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern,.. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 7c19228 | Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) | marriage | Joseph Campbell | |
| a58efa1 | Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| f053b27 | But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow. | Rachel Cohn & David Levithan | ||
| e956157 | Some spray-painted graffiti on the wall asks, Is it nothing to you all who pass by? Lamentations 1:12 and I think, No, Lord, whoever the hell You are, this is not nothing to me. This counts. | Rachel Cohn |