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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bbab1bc | Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort. | Philip Yancey | ||
| ff6bf69 | As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God's name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?) | belief-in-god christian-living church | Philip Yancey | |
| 26d1f97 | I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort. | Philip Yancey | ||
| cb1e1f1 | Anna?" "Yeah?" He pauses. "Never mind." "What?" "Nothing." But his tone is definitely not I turn to him, and his eyes are closed. His skin is pale and tired. "What?" I ask again,sitting up. St. Clair opens his eyes, noticing I've moved. He struggles,trying to sit up, too, and I help him. When I pull away, he clutches my hand to stop me. "I like you," he says. My body is rigid. "And I don't mean as a friend." It feels like I'm swallowing m.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 29f51af | That was pants. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 430583c | I'm beginning to think that maybe it's okay to be a blank canvas. maybe it's okay that my future is unknown. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 5bfbe48 | Is Etienene okay?" "Haven't seen him.He went to Ellie's last night." Just when I thought I couldn't feel any worse.I twist the corners of my pillow. "Did I,uh,say anything weird to him last night?" "Apart from acting like a jealous girlfriend and saying you never wanted to speak to him again? No. Nothing weird at all." I moan as she recounts the night for me blow by blow. "Listen," she says when she finishes, "what's the deal with you two?".. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| dc4b6bd | Nope, you stick out like a fart in a church. | invisibility nudge quote to | James Patterson | |
| 3743ccb | He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 3af7fca | You said to lean on your arm And I am leaning You said to trust in your love And I am trusting You said to call on your name And I am calling I'm stepping out on your word | Maya Angelou | ||
| 011d301 | Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses, I have been perplexed and amused by fabricated notions about so-called "great books." That, for instance, Mann's asinine "Death in Venice," or Pasternak's melodramatic, vilely written "Dr. Zhivago," or Faulkner's corn-cobby chronicles can be considered "masterpieces" or at least w.. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 4a17883 | The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment. | poverty | Maxim Gorky | |
| 621175c | Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major." | Garth Nix | ||
| f35b232 | It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic." | longing real-world reality | Garth Nix | |
| 8e10953 | But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door. | fantasy fear | Garth Nix | |
| 851608a | and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?" | robert-plant | Miriam Toews | |
| ff3275d | I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 2055790 | I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages. | Miriam Toews | ||
| d194232 | But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. | rune sea-of-trolls | Nancy Farmer | |
| 79ce5be | The high point of your life was when you knocked me down | high knocked-down life | Nancy Farmer | |
| 4d4c198 | Philippa Somerville, standing back a little, did not withdraw her arm. In her white face, a shadow of motherly irritation appeared. 'Has no one here any sense? Be quiet and sit down. The world will look after itself for a night, without your hand on the rim. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 7270849 | You choose to play God, and the Deity points out that the post is already adequately filled. During an outburst of besotted philanthropy he had redeemed Lymond, but Lymond quite simply was not prepared to be rescued; and least of all by his brother. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 921ddc9 | If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 17eca41 | My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem to hold to life but weakly. I used to wonder if it was so because the memory of Heaven still lived within them, so that in leaving here they do not fear death as we do, who no longer know with certainty where it is our spirits go. This, I thought, must be the kindness that God does for them and for us, since He gives so many .. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 0dae71d | A man does not learn very well, Mr. Robbins. Women, yes, because they are used to bending with whatever wind comes along. A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man, if you will pardon me, stops learning at fourteen or so. He shuts it all down, Mr. Robbins. A log is capable of learning more than a man. To teach a man would be a battle, a war, and I would lose. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 60fa697 | Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means. | inspirational life | Tom Robbins | |
| c132125 | Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| d59cd70 | You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike. | monotony sameness winter | Marguerite Duras | |
| ee8aaf3 | Only the young and the beautiful should be allowed to fuck. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 07c25ec | I understand everything," he said. "You understand nothing, but it really doesn't matter, since what you mean is, you're glad to see me, just as I'm glad to see you because no more loneliness." "That's what I mean," said Fezzik." | William Goldman | ||
| 4ac9a4f | You let women dictate your actions and they are not competent in this world, though certainly they will be saints in heaven while we men burn in hell. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 27333f1 | A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 2d2a597 | Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf. | environmentalism green | Yvon Chouinard | |
| d79c5ea | The world is full of fools eagerly waiting to hear what they long to be told. | Jeff Wheeler | ||
| 4e194e8 | I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that. | drug-addiction drugs hobo homeless jean-michel life montréal pg-81 street | Heather O'Neill | |
| e07e9d7 | My conversation is probably something like the rain. On some days it pours, and then on other days there's just a clear sky- not a word in sight. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| ae87922 | I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor. | health helplessness human-rights kindness poverty sickness society | Christina Dodd | |
| 729974f | Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way. | Christina Dodd | ||
| c2c85bf | Life is populated with scarecrows--all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw? | Jerry and Eileen Spinelli | ||
| 54adaf0 | Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| bd1d37c | Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings. | Jerry and Eileen Spinelli | ||
| 05f3d27 | Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5e1aeb6 | I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as its poor citizens clamored for a way out. I suggested that my experience in New Orleans working with the city's poorest people in the years before the storm had reflected the reality of third-world conditions in New Orleans, and that Katrina had not turned New Orleans into a third-world city but had only .. | new-orleans poverty | Billy Sothern | |
| da14a0e | The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a revolution or a theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. | copernicus darwin evolution misguided natural-selection nicolaus-copernicus science science-and-religion science-vs-religion | Martin Luther King Jr. |