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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 63c8441 | The full moon - the mandala of the sky. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 1cf7eee | If there's a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does. | artist perception reality | Tom Robbins | |
| b0d4beb | When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, a.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 554c81d | Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5850082 | Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive. | tom-robbins | Tom Robbins | |
| ce44eeb | you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 9df4b3b | She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| cda9bdb | Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and op.. | lie truth | Harry G. Frankfurt | |
| bd94361 | One of the most profound changes in my life happened when I got my head around the relationship between gratitude and joy. I always thought that joyful people were grateful people. I mean, why wouldn't they be? They have all of that goodness to be grateful for. But after spending countless hours collecting stories about joy and gratitude, three powerful patterns emerged: Without exception, every person I interviewed who described living a j.. | Brené Brown | ||
| dee7e78 | Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare. | Brené Brown | ||
| c9cc0d3 | Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, | Brené Brown | ||
| c39771f | I only accept and pay attention to feedback from people who are also in the arena. If you're occasionally getting your butt kicked as you respond, and if you're also figuring out how to stay open to feedback without getting pummeled by insults, I'm more likely to pay attention to your thought about my work. If, on the other hand, you're not helping, contributing, or wrestling with your own gremlins, I'm not at all interested in your comment.. | feedback | Brené Brown | |
| 4d0dd98 | Stop scouring people's faces for evidence that you're not enough. You will always find it because you've made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don't negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. | Brené Brown | ||
| f8ca117 | Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them--we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. | Brené Brown | ||
| a7eb501 | What we know matters, but who we are matters more. | Brené Brown | ||
| c4ddce4 | We do that by numbing the pain with whatever provides the quickest relief. We can take the edge off emotional pain with a whole bunch of stuff, including alcohol, drugs, food, sex, relationships, money, work, caretaking, gambling, affairs, religion, chaos, shopping, planning, perfectionism, constant change, and the Internet. And just so we don't miss it in this long list of all the ways we can numb ourselves, there's always staying busy: li.. | Brené Brown | ||
| e1da61c | In order for slavery to work, in order for us to buy, sell, beat, and trade people like animals, Americans had to completely dehumanize slaves. And whether we directly participated in that or were simply a member of a culture that at one time normalized that behavior, it shaped us. We can't undo that level of dehumanizing in one or two generations. I believe Black Lives Matter is a movement to rehumanize black citizens. All lives matter, bu.. | black-lives-matter dehumanization inclusion racism slavery | Brené Brown | |
| 31f2c91 | And high above, depicted in a tower, Sat Conquest, robed in majesty and power, Under a sword that swung above his head, Sharp-edged and hanging by a subtle thread. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| a32ea1b | modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 86a6d84 | They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 55808b2 | The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else. [S]he wanted only her own strawberry farm, the fragrance of the fields and the cedar trees, and to live simply in this place forever. [S]he had fallen into loving him long before she knew herself, though it occurred to her now that she might never know herself, that perhaps no one ever does, that such a thing might not .. | David Guterson | ||
| f536224 | I just don't want to forget this first day of the rest of my life! | Dave Pelzer | ||
| cc4695e | Maybe thinking you're supposed to 'have a life' is a stupid way of buying into an untenable 1950s narrative of what life *supposed* to be. How do we know that all of these people with 'no lives' aren't really on the new frontier of human sentience and preceptions? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d7ca08f | one of the biggest indicators for success in life is having a few crazy relatives. So long as you get only some of the crazy genes, you don't end up crazy; you merely end up different. And it's that difference that gives you an edge, that makes you successfull. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 9db8cd1 | But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world - by a teacher, a writer, anyone - is a judgement. The judgement that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important. | Howard Zinn | ||
| d0714c3 | Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 8a758f9 | Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it wa all about-I don't know, confidence or will or luck. Those are all some good things to have, no question. But there's something else, somethng that these things grow out of. It's joy. | Julie Powell | ||
| a1920e7 | Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be. | Julie Powell | ||
| 1368043 | The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| dcbc7dc | Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 428e797 | There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them. | Michael Pollan | ||
| d615a5b | Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, those numbers have flipped: Spending on food has fallen to 9.9 percent, while spending on heath care has climbed to 16 percent of national income. I have to think that by spending a little more on .. | health health-care healthcare healthful healthy spending | Michael Pollan | |
| b46f4e9 | Yes, forgetting can be a curse, especially as we age. But forgetting is also one of the more important things healthy brains do, almost as important as remembering. Think how quickly the sheer volume and multiplicity of sensory information we receive every waking minute would overwhelm our consciousness if we couldn't quickly forget a great deal more of it than we remember. | processing sensory-overload | Michael Pollan | |
| 7ac1b10 | You go deep enough or far out enough in consciousness and you will bump into the sacred. It's not something we generate; it's something out there waiting to be discovered. And this reliably happens to nonbelievers as well as believers." Second, that, whether occasioned by drugs or other means, these experiences of mystical consciousness are in all likelihood the primal basis of religion. (Partly for this reason Richards believes that psyche.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 216c449 | Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa. | food government politics trust | Michael Pollan | |
| 6992340 | Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home -- not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away. How you can fall in love with the light. | Ellen Meloy | ||
| b1a01d5 | Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East's exuberant vision of the West, the West's uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna -- the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation. | cities | M. John Harrison | |
| d1e117d | Yes, yes, it ended in my corrupting them all! How it could come to pass I do not know, but I remember it clearly. The dream embraced thousands of years and left in me only a sense of the whole. I only know that I was the cause of their sin and downfall. Like a vile trichina, like a germ of the plague infecting whole kingdoms, so I contaminated all this earth, so happy and sinless before my coming. They learnt to lie, grew fond of lying, and.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e712cc8 | Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
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| a8ef209 | We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!" | facts ingenuity | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 56628ce | At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6dd2bf6 | knt 'jls Twl llyl wfy lHqyq@ lm 'kn 'nSt lyhm. 'w sm`hm. bl lqd nsyt wjwdhm. lqd `tdt 'n 'jls `l~ lmq`d l~ lTwl@ Twl llyl dwn 'n 'f`l shyy'an . 'jls fHsb wl 'fkr. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9568327 | In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction. | prison punishment society | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |