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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 73a5e93 | Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 6072358 | It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. --Elbert Hubbard | David Allen | ||
| a337919 | Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. --Jonathan Kozol | David Allen | ||
| f432be5 | The Pranksters never talked about synchronicity by name, but they were more and more attuned to the principle. Obviously, according to this principle, man does not have free will. There is no use in his indulging in a lifelong competition to change the structure of the little environment he seems to be trapped in. But one could see the larger pattern and move with it - Go with the flow! - and accept it and rise above one's immediate environ.. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| b7004b1 | a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme momen.. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| da67435 | Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 4b86f10 | Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 570b6ad | An excess of reason is itself a form of madness | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 4b831f0 | I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God. | god lunatic | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 80b395f | The only thing I know is everything you love will die. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1a5f070 | I was abused my family was the "brady bunch" | Dave Pelzer | ||
| b2927ad | And when you do find this letter, you know what? Something extraordinary will happen. It will be like a reverse solar eclipse - the sun will start shining down in the middle of night, imagine that! | Douglas Coupland | ||
| eb78d27 | Maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't know even half the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of i.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d143be1 | The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compa.. | history hope injustice optimisim spirit | Howard Zinn | |
| fc38a76 | The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power. | concentration-of-power courtroom domination elite injustice power | Howard Zinn | |
| 786ac00 | I prefer to think of it as a knack for coming to your rescue," he declares huskily and winks, before he proceeds to wipe up my mess. Oh good God. I've made Chris Merit my janitor. And, he winked at me. I can barely breathe." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 5eb7150 | It's our scars that define us, Sara. Diego has to live life to appreciate life." "Yes." A knot forms in my stomach at the idea that I still don't know how deeply Chris's scars define him." | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 150c8ff | Great. I'm with the hottest man I've ever known and raccoons have crawled through my hair and settled under my eyes. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| bbe9d35 | A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression. | John Berger | ||
| fef5bbf | Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity. | John Berger | ||
| f163340 | Whenever I put the headset on now," he'd continued, "I really do understand what I find there. When those kids sing about 'She loves you,' yeah well, you know, she does, she's any number of people, all over the world, back through time, different colors, sizes, ages, shapes, distances from death, but she loves. And the 'you' is everybody. And herself. Oedipa, the human voice, you know, it's a flipping miracle." His eyes brimming, reflecting.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| ab5eed2 | After the 11 September attack," March editorializes one morning, "amid all that chaos and confusion, a hole quietly opened up in American history, a vacuum of accountability, into which assets human and financial begin to vanish. Back in the days of hippie simplicity, people liked to blame 'the CIA' or 'a secret rogue operation.' But this is a new enemy, unnamable, locatable on no organization chart or budget line--who knows, maybe even the.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| a6034b2 | I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 89b2484 | Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| c59ac63 | Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this -- and out of nothing -- can still count the hairs of my head. | universe | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 87aaab3 | We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don't have much sense. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 4b9b803 | But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take. It is indeed a fearful gamble. Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human rel.. | marriage | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 1538f84 | This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved. | goodbye loss love | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 57245b2 | Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning. | brave courage faith where-faith-meets-art | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| d330f93 | Wait until tomorrow to find what tomorrow holds. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| d1490e0 | Leslie was one of those people who sat quietly at her desk, never whispering or daydreaming or chewing gum, doing beautiful schoolwork, and yet her brain was so full of mischief that if the teacher could have once seen through that mask of perfection, she would have thrown her out in horror. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| e1380ae | We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| a90d5e2 | But he did decide vegetatively, as a bean when once tossed aside must decide if it ought to germinate or had better let things be. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 52f7535 | He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole world. If he wanted, he could be feted in Paris, not by tens of thousands, but by hundreds of thousands of people; or could walk out to Versailles and have the King kiss his feet; write the Pope a perfumed letter and reveal himself as the new Messiah; be anointed in Notre-Dame as Supreme Emperor before kings, or even as God come .. | power scent smell | Patrick Süskind | |
| c43f372 | It was a strange feeling, holding the rifle. It somehow removed him from everything around him. Without the rifle he had to fit in, to be part of it all, to understand it and use it - the woods, all of it. With the rifle, suddenly, he didn't have to know, did not have to be afraid or understand. He didn't have to get close to a foolbird to kill it - didn't have to know how it would stand if he didn't look at it and moved off to the side. Th.. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 2c24553 | He could see it now. Oh, yes, all as he ran in the sun, his legs liquid springs. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 2a40df9 | This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| f83be34 | I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances on one hand, or by hard labor, want of necessaries, an.. | philosophy-of-life | Daniel Defoe | |
| eb208f6 | He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| f399b35 | When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b9864e4 | When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling and squirming in her mother's grip. She thrust her arms toward Mariam, demanding to be held, her tiny hands opening and closing urgently, on her face a look of both adoration and quivering anxiety... "Why have you pinned your little heart to an old, ugly hag like me?" Mariam would murmur into Aziza's hair... "What have I got to give you?" But .. | innocence love | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 6a3f730 | Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 202909a | You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 247f948 | Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don't like it free money."...Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumor. " | Khaled Hosseini |