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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| b1133ce | Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it. | cross keep-walking | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 22b238c | When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 71995e7 | I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 9e6bd3a | How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that you will tell . | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 0e484a4 | It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing. | Carol Shields | ||
| eb84991 | depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases. | depressed depression disease distress grave-disease help mental-illness remedy victim | William Styron | |
| 0f8154c | What I had begun to discover is that, mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the grey drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of.. | William Styron | ||
| 9658bcd | She thinks I'm a drug dealer. (Chris) 'The most "illegal" thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.' (Wulf)" -- | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 885a2ea | Rain Man! I had seen the film. I did not identify in any way with Rain Man, who was inarticulate, dependent, and unemployable. A society of Rain Men would be dysfunctional. A society of Don Tillmans would be efficient, safe, and pleasant for all of us. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 5ec4285 | Gabriel discourages emotional attachments the way most of us discourage door-to-door salesmen. They're inconvenient, intrusive, and liable to end up saddling you with something you never wanted in the first place, at a cost far higher than you wish to pay. | emotions | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 13ad75a | A word of advice about Ricky ..." Gabriel said as he swung his car from the end of the drive. "Is it going to cost me?" I waved off his answer. "Whatever you're going to say, save your breath." "I overheard him offering you a ride on his motorcycle. I don't believe you understand what that entails." "Grass, gas, or ass. No one rides for free." I looked over at him. "I've seen the T-shirt." "I don't think you're taking this seriously, Olivia.. | gabriel-walsh olivia-jones ricky | Kelley Armstrong | |
| c8cf117 | Dad!" he shouted, loud enough to make my ears ring. "Dad! You need to get down here!" (Derek) Chloe held open the door and whispered to me, "I could say he's not always like this, but I'd be lying." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| dca6718 | There are just as many bitches out there as bastards. Equal opportunity asshole-ism. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 39973b9 | in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 26ca291 | He lifted his brows. "If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate." "With chair-throwing." "Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| c2a43f9 | If I was crazy, would I know it? That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better. | sanity | kelley armstrong | |
| 96f11bf | And after all, one does not die of it." "Die of what?" I asked swiftly. "Of being afraid." | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 42c0a99 | I will keep the colour of your eyes until no other in the world remembers your name. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 0c427a3 | Outside, the night lay coiled in the street, cobra-cold and scaled with stars. | Peter S. Beagle |