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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 603f48e | Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a826e5b | Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise. | Tom Robbins | ||
| d738386 | Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 0163276 | he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered. | sex skinny-legs-and-all tom-robbins | Tom Robbins | |
| 7690dda | I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 46b058f | Magic things are fond of deceptions. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 39006e1 | Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that's no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but it's to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienatio.. | amanda another-roadside-attraction dirt earth soil tom-robbins water | Tom Robbins | |
| 61feabe | No regrets" doesn't mean living with courage, it means living without reflection. To live without regret is to believe you have nothing to learn, no amends to make, and no opportunity to be braver with your life. (P.211)" | Brené Brown | ||
| 7265840 | we don't judge people when we feel good about ourselves. | Brené Brown | ||
| 5d490b7 | Daring is not saying, "I'm willing to risk failure." Daring is saying, "I know I will eventually fail and I'm still all in." | Brené Brown | ||
| 1f3ecd5 | The most transformative and resilient leaders that I've worked with over the course of my career have three things in common: First, they recognize the central role that relationships and story play in culture and strategy, and they stay curious about their own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Second, they understand and stay curious about how emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are connected in the people they lead, and how those factors a.. | Brené Brown | ||
| a4f9417 | when we are in pain and fear, anger and hate are our go-to emotions. | Brené Brown | ||
| e3c26ee | I can confidently say that stories of pain and courage almost always include two things: praying and cussing. Sometimes at the exact same time. | Brené Brown | ||
| 5a6cbe8 | When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us. | Brené Brown | ||
| 5bdcba7 | Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 90ad142 | It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| bcd8127 | You are the cause by which I die. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| d54cdd9 | I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia. | beach california groves libraries library little-league music orange utopia | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| b8fcdf8 | David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick. | Dave Pelzer | ||
| c8c91fc | Life is soon | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d7e59d8 | you're too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You've had bad internet dates. You've had people be creeps to you. You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world>> <> | ideology madness | Douglas Coupland | |
| 7fc4882 | I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally relu.. | creativity ingenuity peace political-propaganda war | Howard Zinn | |
| a4cb8c5 | Here we find further argument for Gotagga's supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers? | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| c55d17e | Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus paused next to one of the shining braziers, peered beneath the bronze visage that loomed orange and scowling over his father, watched him lean back into absolute shadow. "You came to the world," unseen lips said, "and you saw that Men were like children." Lines of radiance danced across the intervening waters. "It is their nature to believe as the.. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| e7b5b38 | Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 5fb8ad6 | Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight? | fighting love pain | Tamora Pierce | |
| f532ee5 | Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages? | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 5b11294 | Witches and sorcerers cultivated plants with the power to "cast spells" -- in our vocabulary, "psychoactive" plants. Their potion recipes called for such things as datura, opium poppies, belladona, hashish, fly-agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria), and the skin of toads (which can contain DMT, a powerful hallucinogen). These ingredients would be combined in a hempseed-oil-based "flying ointment" that the witches would then administer vaginal.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 0e55110 | To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world? | Maile Meloy | ||
| dd983b7 | A map, it is said, organizes wonder. | Ellen Meloy | ||
| 22f9a8a | Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD. | information librarians | Marilyn Johnson | |
| 7e4eae5 | Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3564cbc | Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible. | pets prison | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| ef908bd | m 'S`aba l'mr `l~ mn y`rf lHqyq@a wHdh | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b1b28fe | you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4207724 | Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it. Take my word for it, the highest moment if his happiness was just three days before the discovery of the New World, when the mutinous crew were on the point of returning to Europe in despair. It wasn't the New World that mattered, even if it had fallen to pieces. Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing wha.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5bed504 | mn mn yDl lTryq wm` dhlk nsyr jmy`an l~ Gy@ wHd@ 'w lnql ys`~ ljmy` l~ nhy@ wHd@, mn lHkym Ht~ akhr mjrm Ht~ wn khtlft lsbl . | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2455573 | Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret. | regret the-past | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| d8453be | Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, A PROPOS of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity a gentleman with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical, countenance were to arise and, putting his arms akimbo, say to us all: "I say, g.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 245e535 | I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| eb2195e | Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over centuries naturally, but they don't take care of their books and toss them around. Having books bound signifies respect for the book; it indicates that people not only love to read, but they view it an important occupation. Nowhere in Russia has that stage been reached. Europe has been bindi.. | books | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 57eabb1 | n lnsny@ stjd fy nfsh lqdr@ `l~ 'n tHy llfDyl@ , sw 'amnt bkhlwd lrwH 'm lm tw'mn | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d630ac8 | But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he is ready to distort the truth, ready to hear nor see anything, as long as he can justify his logic. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2ec8da2 | 'yh lsyd lkrym, lys lfqr rdhyl@, wl ldmn `l~ lskr fDyl@, 'n '`rf dhlk 'yDan. wlkn lbw's rdhyl@ 'yh lsyd lkrym, lbw's rdhyl@. ystTy` lmr fy lfqr 'n yZl mHfZan `l~ nbl `wTfh lfTry@, 'm fy lbw's fl ystTy` dhlk ywman, wm mn 'Hd ystTy`h qT. dh knt fy lbw's fnk l tuTrd mn mjtm` lbshr Drban bl`S, bl tuTrd mnh Drban blmkns@, bGy@ dhllk mzydan mn ldhll. wlns `l~ Hq fy dhlk, l'nk fy lbw's 'wl mn yryd hdh ldhl lnfsh bnfsh. whdh sbb dmnk `l~ lshrb. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |