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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c3dc3f3 | We are seldom as limited as we think we are. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 151bf0f | Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 1e3b444 | What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart. | Tom Robbins | ||
| bd49860 | There's no such thing as security in this life sweetheart, and the sooner you accept that fact, the better off you'll be. The person who strives for security will never be free. The person who believes she's found security will never reach paradise. What she mistakes for security is purgatory. You know what purgatory is, Gwendolyn? It's the waiting room, it's the lobby. Not only does she have the wrong libretto, she's stuck in the lobby whe.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| c8d0558 | Dreamily the Princess stood up. "I'm not sure if I can walk," she said. "Then I'll carry you." "Is that what love is?" "I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject." -- | Tom Robbins | ||
| be9ba22 | Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 9a07e5b | We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3579358 | We've all fallen, and we have the skinned knees and bruised hearts to prove it. But scars are easier to talk about than they are to show, with all the remembered feelings laid bare. And rarely do we see wounds that are in the process of healing. I'm not sure if it's because we feel too much shame to let anyone see a process as intimate as overcoming hurt, or if it's because even when we muster the courage to share our still-incomplete heali.. | Brené Brown | ||
| ff86ece | You will always belong anywhere you show up as yourself and talk about yourself and your work in a real way. | Brené Brown | ||
| 5e47973 | If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing--it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning. | Brené Brown | ||
| 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 | |
| c222212 | I sensed only an instant of apprehension. She never raised an eyebrow at the question.. Such a brave girl. | Tite Kubo | ||
| fbb085b | I felt like a Jane Austen heroine all of a sudden, confusedly looking on at all the people she loves, their myriad unpredictable couplings and uncouplings. There would be no marriages at the end of this Austen novel, though, no happy endings, no endings at all. Just jokes and friendships and romances and delicious declarations of independence. | Julie Powell | ||
| 89fcc84 | It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| beb9c7b | A noble maiden must convey dignity and chastity without appearing to think about either one. Let common-born girls tussle in the hay with their loutish swains. The future of your family's bloodline and your future lord's bloodline should be your greatest concern. Let no man but one of your family embrace you. Let no man but your betrothed kiss any more than your fingertips; let your betrothed kiss you only on fingers, cheek, or forehead, le.. | tamora-pierce tricksters-choice | Tamora Pierce | |
| 1f8975d | That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 7427288 | We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined. | men | Tamora Pierce | |
| a506df7 | You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed," she informed him softly. "Little *bitch*," he snapped. Sandry looked him over soberly. "If you had understood that earlier, we could have avoided this unpleasantness," she replied." | strong-heroine vexed | Tamora Pierce | |
| 0138736 | No can always be changed to yes, but it's very hard to change yes to no. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 300042f | There are times in every rider's life when it is necessary to apologize to a horse.... | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 9a88248 | Wouldn't--" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?" -- | Tamora Pierce | ||
| b7edd83 | He liked me to help him when he did things. He explained what I didn't know, warned me when to stand aside, told me to get out of his way because he could do it faster, and thanked me for helping. There were moments when he needed me to rescue him, and he never blamed me for it, or got angry about it. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 2a038de | We each play several roles in life - that doesn't make them all lies. | tamora-pierce traitor-s-trilogy ya-romance ya-spy | Erin Beaty | |
| a6f6840 | More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most. | ecology farming symbiosis | Michael Pollan | |
| f6f15c3 | Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds. | Michael Pollan | ||
| c802c11 | Use the apple test "If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry." -- | Michael Pollan | ||
| 71e8638 | Every day is a chance to start over. Any day can be bad, surely, but any day can be good, can be great, and that promise, that potential, is a beautiful thing indeed. | inspirational | R.A. Salvatore | |
| d790079 | Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic wink, or a sarcastic lip curl, they'd wear it out. | Marilyn Johnson | ||
| da1358f | It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that is, not liked but . . . how to put it . . . was interested, or whatever. | Mikhail Bulgakov (Михаил Булгаков) | ||
| 2b781cb | Do you know that centuries will pass and mankind will proclaim with the mouth of its wisdom and science that there is no crime, and therefore no sin, but only hungry men? Feed them first, then ask virtue of them. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9fccbed | Life is given to me only once, and never will be again--I don't want to sit waiting for universal happiness. I want to live myself; otherwise it's better not to live at all. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
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| bf5442a | m ldhy yq`dk?.. lfqr?.. l`wz?.. wlkn lfqr hw ldhy ySn` lfnn. whw 'mr lbd mnh fy lbdy@. nk lan nsn mhml, l yHtj lyk 'Hd, wl yHtj 'Hd 'n y`rfk.. tlk hy lHy@.. | poverty | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| fd05e56 | At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 68fd3af | May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed... | attainment chaos destruction goals human-nature reaching-your-goals success | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |