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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 42b3402 | I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 110af0c | He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love. | christianity | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| a5c4546 | make away out of no way | Barack Obama | ||
| 44d0424 | There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster. | Barack Obama | ||
| 2fd4842 | I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web. Sometimes I think that's why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There's a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control.... | Barack Obama | ||
| a6f92b3 | Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds | Barack Obama | ||
| 463a9c7 | So many of my friends judged potential mates from the outside in, focusing first on their looks and financial prospects. If it turned out the person they'd chosen wasn't a good communicator or was uncomfortable with being vulnerable, they seemed to think time or marriage vows would fix the problem. But Barack arrived in my life a wholly formed person. From our very first conversation, he'd shown me that he wasn't self-conscious about expres.. | Michelle Obama | ||
| 1aa66f1 | I, too, lived--which I had not done before, and which I could still do. I lived into the depths, and the depths began to speak. The depths taught me the other truth. It thus united sense and nonsense in me. I had to recognize that I am only the expression and symbol of the soul. In the sense of the spirit of the depths, I am as I am in this visible world a symbol of my soul, and I am thoroughly a serf, completely subjugated, utterly obedien.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 8e1021b | Man becomes whole, integrated, calm, fertile, and happy when (and only when) the process of individuation is complete, when the conscious and the unconscious have learned to live at peace and to complement one another. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 7682ae8 | The real mystery does not behave mysteriously or secretively; it speaks a secret language, it adumbrates itself by a variety of images which all indicate its true nature. I am not speaking of a secret personally guarded by someone, with a content known to its possessor, but of a mystery, a matter or circumstance which is "secret," i.e., known only through vague hints but essentially unknown. The real nature of matter was unknown to the alch.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| a056d92 | Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness. | archetypes c-g-jung carl-gustav-jung carl-jung collected-works idleness | C.G. Jung | |
| 637ec48 | Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as he is believed to have done in former days. When I hear such questions, it always makes me think of the rabbi who was asked how it could be that God often showed himself to people in the olden days while nowadays nobody ever sees him. The rabbi replied: "Nowadays there is now longer anybody who can bow low enough." This answer hits the nail on the head. We are so captivated by and enta.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 5a72d90 | I must learn to love you. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 04160d9 | Happiness and contentment, equability of mind and meaningfulness of life - these can be experienced only by the individual and not by a State, which, on the one hand, is nothing but a convention agreed to by independent individuals, and on the other, continually threatens to paralyse and suppress the individual. | C.G. Jung | ||
| b44653c | At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 4474448 | people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one | Alice Munro | ||
| 3f16a07 | Her attitude towards sex is very comforting to those of her friends who get into terrible states of passion and jealousy, and feel cut loose from their moorings. She seems to regard sex as a wholesome, slightly silly indulgence, like dancing and nice dinners--something that shouldn't interfere with people's being kind and cheerful to each other. | Alice Munro | ||
| 393f516 | Love dies all the time, or at any rate it becomes distracted, overlaid--it might as well be dead. | Alice Munro | ||
| a7416d0 | You're a cruel, cold-gutted, heartless bastard but you've got majesty, no doubt about that. | James Clavell | ||
| e47f076 | Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and sea and earth. You should know, Anjin-san, in this Land of Tears, death is our heritage. | James Clavell | ||
| a12978d | a book is just like life and anything can change | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 20e70d0 | Say! In the dark? Here in the dark! Would you, could you, in the dark? | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 8387455 | You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised, | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| c422a28 | Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| a402af6 | She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. | family | Curtis Sittenfeld | |
| 84b937e | Time seemed, as it always does in adulthood after a particular stretch has concluded, no matter how ponderous or unpleasant the stretch was to endure, to have passed quickly indeed. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 8b2c168 | I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 8c73465 | August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages. | imagery page-109 summer time | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 454eda5 | accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 6e1ad96 | I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 63792c3 | If god exists, he is not to be believed in. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 3f8022d | The morning Julia found the phone, my parents were over for brunch. Everything was falling apart around Benjy, although I'll never know what he knew at the time, and neither will he. The adults were talking when he reentered the kitchen and said, "The sound of time. What happened to it?" "What are you talking about?" "You know," he said, waving his tiny hand about, "the sound of time." It took time - about five frustrating minutes - to figu.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 3e759f8 | He spoke to her as if she could understand him, never in high pitch or in monosyllables, and never in nonsense words. This is milk that I am feeding you. It comes from Mordechai the milkman, whom you will meet one day. He gets the milk from a cow, which is a very strange and troubling thing if you think about it, so don't think about it . . . This is my hand that is petting your face. Some people are left-handed and some are right-handed. W.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a5773ea | I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn't come back | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 85a0334 | In the end I was the clay and she was the sculptor, I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 8f90cac | They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped. | Denis Johnson | ||
| 3775a94 | We parked under a strange sky with a faint image of a quarter-moon superimposed on it. There was a little woods beside us. This day had been dry out and hot, the buck pines and what-all simmering patientyl, but as we sat there smoking cigarettes it started to get very cold. "The summer's over," I said." | Denis Johnson | ||
| 95f585a | People entering the bars on First Avenue gave up their bodies. Then only the demons inhabiting us could be seen. Souls who had wronged each other were brought together here. The rapist met his victim, the jilted child discovered its mother. But nothing could be healed, the mirror was a knife dividing everything from itself, tears of false fellowship dripped on the bar. And what are you going to do to me now? With what, exactly, would you ex.. | Denis Johnson | ||
| 0c30b6e | Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome. | bigotry cold-war leftism politics united-states | Ian Buruma | |
| 277f3ed | All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything--the miracle--is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| eddf171 | You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone." | Franz Kafka | ||
| b310cb4 | Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. | vice virtue | Franz Kafka | |
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| fe91d7f | Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with a new confirmation of my existence, since nothing was in my very own, undoubted, sole possession, determined unequivocally only by me -- in sober truth a disinherited son -- naturally I became unsure even of the thing nearest to me, my own body. | childhood-trauma narcissism narcissistic-personality shame | Franz Kafka |