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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e7d3923 | Just because the truth disturbs someone doesn't make speaking that truth hate speech. | Ted Dekker | ||
| e7c1f25 | Knowing you're worthless doesn't give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free. | Ted Dekker | ||
| ba16a75 | A Christian in many American circles, for example, means 'right-wing, gun-toting fanatic who hates Democrats.' As such, a pacifist Democrat who called himself a Christian in those circles, would be lying, albeit unwittingly. To most of this world, America is Christian, just as to most Americans being an Arab means being a Muslim. Both labels have only limited usefulness. I have been called a Christian writer, but I'm not a right-wing, gun-t.. | Ted Dekker | ||
| bcb62b2 | She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair. | Ted Dekker | ||
| c7d281e | But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 3b06515 | My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 0295f19 | It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| f901444 | You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and were desperate not to let her get away. And yet the more you thought about her, the less you knew who she was. The hope was that love transcended all differences. That was the hope. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 12e74c3 | The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 7d36208 | We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 8b63bef | That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 754fb05 | He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light. | mental-health mental-illness | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 1d44111 | Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition," he wrote. "I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 23e4733 | Labeling yourself is not only self-defeating, it is irrational. Your self cannot be equated with any one thing you do. Your life is a complex and ever-changing flow of thoughts, emotions, and actions. To put it another way, you are more like a river than a statue. Stop trying to define yourself with negative labels--they | David D. Burns | ||
| 4380c5b | Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| a7a6715 | You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| eca01c5 | The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| b50e800 | If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you an.. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| d03df1f | Today is today. But there are many tomorrows... | Dan Millman | ||
| 84b499a | I'll never disgrace myself. And I swear, it never crossed my mind about Holly. You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend. | Truman Capote | ||
| 69eb7f4 | all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil-paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved. | Truman Capote | ||
| 1e4cfd6 | The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. | Truman Capote | ||
| 22a2b04 | Then starting home, he walked toward the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind-bent wheat. | Truman Capote | ||
| 42519e2 | I believe in hanging. Just so long as I'm not the one being hanged. | Truman Capote | ||
| 34abe45 | Imagination, of course, can open any door--turn the key and let terror walk right in. | Truman Capote | ||
| c61ea70 | I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together | Margaret Truman | ||
| a205d25 | Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities--a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity--but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies. | hobbies innovation self-improvement | Steven Johnson | |
| 10f650b | When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives. | innovation peace permission | Steven Johnson | |
| a1cacf6 | We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop. | edith-wharton fashion the-house-of-mirth women | Edith Wharton | |
| eca869a | Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation. | false-modesty | Edith Wharton | |
| d61c5d9 | The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 8fd2655 | She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 20ab740 | No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3ceb998 | Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. | Douglas Adams | ||
| fd7e344 | I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that li.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8f6af40 | You have a time machine and you use it for... watching television?" "Well, I wouldn't use it at all if I could get the hang of the video recorder." | Douglas Adams | ||
| f70f8ec | And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 722c313 | Arthur lolled. | Douglas Adams | ||
| f91a49e | If," ["the management consultant"] said tersely, "we could for a moment move on to the subject of fiscal policy. . ." "Fiscal policy!" whooped Ford Prefect. "Fiscal policy!" The management consultant gave him a look that only a lungfish could have copied. "Fiscal policy. . ." he repeated, "that is what I said." "How can you have money," demanded Ford, "if none of you actually produces anything? It doesn't grow on trees you know." "If you wo.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| c1b0880 | I come in peace...Take me to your lizard. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 5f56c3d | In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot. | humor irony life tragedy | Douglas Adams | |
| 13d0513 | There were three of them, three police cars left askew across the road in a way that transcended mere parking. It sent out a massive signal to the world saying that the law was here now taking charge of things, and that anyone who just had normal, good and cheerful business to conduct in Lupton Road could just fuck off. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 113516c | The hasty stroke oft goes astray. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e99f457 | Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!" | J.R.R. Tolkien |