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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d27b2fa | Self pity, Orito reminds herself yet again, is a noose dangling from a rafter. | David Mitchell | ||
| d81007e | I must prove that I can be, that I am and will be, a normal person. Perhaps no better, but certainly no worse than the rest. | Henri Charrière | ||
| e6d3867 | You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically." I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives." | mitch-albom teacher | Mitch Albom | |
| a1c3967 | You cannot unplay your notes. Time, like music, is indelible that way. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 467fc9a | You cannot ask things to do what they are not meant to do. Eventually, they will break. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0e80cd3 | Because one thing God gave us- and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 20c5ca1 | people in grief can imagine many things. It makes them feel better. It doesn't make it real. | Mitch Albom | ||
| dd29c7d | You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five. | aging inspirational life reflections | Mitch Albom | |
| a843175 | Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning. | Mitch Albom | ||
| bccd524 | There are 5 people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give to you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1ac406b | What is a fleecy as a cloud, As majestic and shimmering as the breaking dawn, As gorgeous as the sun the sun is strong? Why, it's ME! Twilight, the Great Gray, Tiger of the sky --- Light of the Night, Most beautiful, An avian delight. I beam --- I gleam --- I'm a livin' flying dream. Watch me roll off this cloud and pop on back. This is flying. I ain't no hack. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 86afe0e | What gives a wriggle And makes you giggle When you eat'em? Whose weensy little feet Make my heart really beat? Why, it's those little creepy crawlies That make me feel so jolly. For the darling centipede My favorite buggy feed I always want some more. That's the insect I adore More than beetles, more than crickets, Which at times gives me the hiccups. I crave only to feed On a juicy centipede And I shall be happy forevermore." -.. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| dc91d77 | The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed more angular and the pictures on the wall more one-dimensional. She remembered somebody saying that at night we are all strangers, even to ourselves, and this struck her as being true. | strange strangers unfamiliar | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 713c013 | How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 597ee55 | Mma Ramotsew accepted her large slice of cake and looked at the rich fruit within it. There were at least seven hundred calories in that, she thought, but it did not matter; she was a traditionally built lady and she did not have to worry about such things. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 89ca346 | Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is." | men | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| b5f0aea | But that's exactly the problem, retorted Isabel. We're all stuck with the same tired and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility of something radically different, then we'd never make any progress - ever. We'd still be thinking that the sun revolved round the earth. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 366888a | There has never been a military in the entire history of the human race that has gone to war equipped with more than the least that it needs to fight its enemy. War is expensive. It costs money and it costs lives and no civilization has an infinite amount of either. So when you fight, you conserve. You use and equip only as much as you have to, never more. | John Scalzi | ||
| 7a851b5 | A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts... | John Dos Passos | ||
| 73bd36b | The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error." -John Dos Passos" | John Dos Passos | ||
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| aaff25d | God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11) | excess generosity giving less money more selfishness sharing spending spoil stewardship | Randy Alcorn | |
| b01f196 | It's easier to die if others around you are dying. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 5bbde48 | Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things. | Epictetus | ||
| b578a28 | In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and whatever you shall have given to the body you soon eject: but what you shall have given to the soul, you keep always. | Epictetus | ||
| aad5470 | New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 9383d45 | She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe. | common-sense fashion nonsense victorian-era | Jeannette Walls | |
| 1eff319 | But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 5959d28 | Dr. Bone Specialist came in, made me stand up and hobble across the room, checked my reflexes, and then made me lie down on the table. He bent my right knee this way and that, up and down, all the way out to the side and in. Then he did the same with my left leg. He ordered X rays then started to leave the room. I panicked. I MUST GET DRUGS. "What can I take for the pain?" I asked him before he got out the door. "You can take some over the .. | back-pain bedside-manner daughter doctor-patient-relationship doctors excruciating family-relation listening-skills mother pain prescriptions threats | Laurie Notaro | |
| 0fc3e5c | Non-attachment is not complacency. It doesn't imply a lack of caring and commitment. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding that holding on too tightly to those things, which in any case are always going to be slipping through our fingers, hurts and gives us rope burn. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| 6ca2159 | We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 26d89d5 | Impressionable men in the squadron like Dobbs and Captain Flume were so deeply disturbed by Hungry Joe's shrieking nightmares that they woudl begin to have shrieking nightmares of their own, and the piercing obscenities they flung into the air every night from their separate places in the squadron rang against each other in the darkness romantically like the mating calls of songbirds with filthy minds. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5a418d3 | Yossarian marveled that children could suffer such barbaric sacrifice without evincing the slightest hint of fear or pain. He took for granted that they did submit so stoically. If not, he reasoned, the custom would certainly have died, for no craving for wealth or immortality could be so great, he felt, as to subsist on the sorrow of children. | Joseph Heller | ||
| c678770 | The maid in the lime-color panties... She had a plain broad face and was the most virtuous woman alive: she laid for EVERYBODY, regardless of race, creed, color or place of national origin, donating herself sociably as an act of hospitality, procrastinating not even for the moment it might take to discard the cloth or broom or dust mop she was clutching at the time she was grabbed. Her allure stemmed from her accessibility; like Mt. Everest.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 9d00502 | it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything. | Joseph Heller | ||
| b312ddf | Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his Communist enemies, and he was thoroughly detested by both groups, who never defended him to anyone because they thought he was a dope. | humanitarianism | Joseph Heller | |
| f22e7f2 | He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote "enhanced" when he meant "increased." He was a prick." | Joseph Heller | ||
| d4d119f | They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady. | proper-etiquette | Joseph Heller | |
| 6014ee3 | And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways," Yossarian continued, hurtling on over her objection. "There's nothing so mysterious about it. He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about - a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed." -- | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5b55fd3 | There are outrages and there are outrages, and some are more outrageous than others. Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow. The Death of Socrates had no effect upon the history of Athens. If anything, the reputation of the city has been improved by it. The death of no person is as important to the future as the literature about it. You will learn nothing from history that can be applied.. | Joseph Heller |