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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d2133ac | Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with! | humor lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5e3faf6 | Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!" | humor swelling | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a9b7adf | Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 85d59e2 | Galadriel his sister went not with him to Nargothrond, for in Doriath dwelt Celeborn, kinsman of Thingol, and there was great love between them. Therefore she remained in the Hidden Kingdom, and abode with Melian, and of her learned great lore and wisdom concerning Middle-earth. | doriath galadriel melian middle-earth middle-earth-first-age | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0a7a978 | Every worm has his weak spot. lkl 'f`~ nqT@ D`f | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4537657 | the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened, | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6fad30c | Yet dawn is ever the hope of men. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| fd6599a | They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night .. | humor | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 4c332e8 | There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. | beginning eru | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| ac8748b | But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d6547a4 | Good stories deserve a little embellishment. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 931d6e5 | Faithful heart may have froward tongue. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 93f807c | Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4b660f0 | You have shown your usual cunning in getting up just in time for a meal. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 36a3a6e | as young and as ancient as Spring.... | spring | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5de1577 | I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery. | politics | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5d3f6d4 | At that moment there was a knock on the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left hand, awkwardly and shyly. He stroked it gently and then he blushed and turned hastily away. | friendship frodo j-r-r-tolkien sam the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 67b2cae | You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth. | invention myths | Humphrey Carpenter | |
| 5025137 | There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be. | inspirational | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 95bffb1 | Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwe and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos. | mandos manwë silmarillion varda | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 064d259 | All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. "Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"--by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it ? and.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f4f4cd2 | But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are withered untimely. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e415cab | For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Cirdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: 'This I will have as weregild for my father's death, and my brother's. Was it not I that dealt the Enemy his death-blow?' And the Ring that he held seemed to him exceedingly fair to look on; and he would not suffer it to be destroyed. | isildur lord-of-the-rings sauron the-one-ring the-ring-of-power | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 9b41778 | We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. | David McCullough | ||
| 2a7dccf | Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. | truth | Herman Melville | |
| b24e050 | Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant, I act under orders. | melville moby-dick revenge | Herman Melville | |
| 89a89aa | My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion. So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not. They err who would assert that i.. | Herman Melville | ||
| dfbcbde | What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice,... | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 95fea02 | Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8871796 | We'll go on the river...or we'll go that way. Or we'll walk the highways now. And we'll have time to put things into ourselves. And someday, after it sets into us a long time, it'll come out her hands and our mouths. And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right. We'll just start walking around today and see the world and the way the world really looks. I want to see everything now. And while none of it will be me when .. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e4dc3e5 | Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 284f72f | Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe. | imagination literature science | Ray Bradbury | |
| 6e444a9 | They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was. | monarchy unlimited-power | Ray Bradbury | |
| 528ff7b | It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession. | google-glass lemonade minaturization newspapers summer technology | Ray Bradbury | |
| 3e6dd41 | My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6bb9ad9 | While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 481f926 | a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| cfe9ab3 | Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Jesus himself entered into this furnace. There he was tempted with the three compulsions of the world: to be relevant ('turn stones into loaves'), to be spectacular ('throw yourself down'), and to be powerful ('I will give you all these kingdoms'). There he affirmed God as the only sou.. | jesus solitude transformation | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 64fd232 | Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who can sit in silence with their fellow man not knowing what to say but knowing that they should be there, can bring new life in a dying heart. Those who are not afraid to hold a hand in gratitude, to shed tears in grief, and to let a sigh of distress arise straight from the heart, can break through paralyzing boundarie.. | compassion empathy gratitude ministry pain priesthood-of-all-believers | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 28e0424 | Am I afraid to die? I am every time I let myself be seduced by the noisy voices of my world telling me that my "little life" is all I have and advising me to cling to it with all my might. But when I let these voices move to the background of my life and listen to that small soft voice calling me the Beloved, I know that there is nothing to fear and that dying is the greatest act of love, the act that leads me into the eternal embrace of my.. | eternity fear | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| aa2996e | Leaving home is living as though I do not yet have a home, and must look far and wide to find one. Home is the center of my being, where I can hear the voice that says, "You are my beloved. On you my favor rests," the same voice that gave life to the first Adam and spoke to Jesus, the second Adam. The same voice that speaks to all the children of God and sets them free to live in the midst of a dark world while remaining in the light. I hav.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 852b6a6 | Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth. | birth creation imminence inherency motherhood sleep | Kahlil Gibran | |
| d8d8bba | flfn 'n n`ks rwH lshjr@ l 'n nrsm jzyy'th, w'n n'ty bDmyr lbHr l 'n nSwr 'mwjh btlTmh, w'n nr~ fy lm'lwf m lys m'lwf | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 2ec568d | w lkn m 'Grb skwt SGyrty lmHbwb@, m 'Grb skwth. dhlk lskwt lTwyl kl'bdy@ l`myq k'Hlm lalh@-dhlk lskwt ldhy l ytrjm l~ 'y@ lG@ bshry@. 'l tdhkryn 'nh lm j dwrk fy lktb@ lm tktby? | Khalil Gibran |