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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8292f1d | The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast. Stopping in the center of the pasture, I could hear the winds clearly. No turning back, they pronounced. The brief autumn was gone. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| e162cf7 | Most of the troubles in life come on all of a sudden. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 27cfaea | Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 555d471 | My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss. | fear loss poetry rejection | Wisława Szymborska | |
| c294b21 | The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 2fb4035 | In the end, it cannot be doubted that each of us can see only a part of the picture. The doctor sees one, the patient another, the engineer a third, the economist a fourth, the pearl diver a fifth, the alcoholic a sixth, the cable guy a seventh, the sheep farmer an eighth, the Indian beggar a ninth, the pastor a tenth. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the worl.. | Paul Kalanithi | ||
| c300b8c | We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery. | Huston Smith | ||
| 0b2fbd6 | Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the god-within... underlying its whirlpool of transient feelings, emotions, and delusions is the self-luminous, abiding point of the transpersonal god. As the sun lights the world even when cloud-covered, "the Immutable is never seen but is the Witness; it is never heard but is the Hearer; it is never thought but is th.. | spirituality upanishads | Huston Smith | |
| 960104e | He said nothing. Very sarcastically. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 4d9cb97 | By the time the shade had reached the river, Augustus would have mellowed with the evening and be ready for some intelligent conversation, which usually involved talking to himself. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c28fdff | Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8e9ee1a | While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either. | identity religion | Amartya Sen | |
| e6374eb | Pax amor et lepos in iocando. Latin for Peace, love and sense of fun. | life motto | Julie Andrews Edwards | |
| 04149a9 | Why do you read then?' Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke, and partly to know myself. When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me; I've got out of the book all that's any use to me and I can't get anything more if I read it a dozen times. ... | reading | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 2ea6929 | Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience. | Kim Edwards | ||
| 445dd92 | He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bo.. | Kim Edwards | ||
| fe6ed2e | For all evils there are two remedies--time and silence. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| eb6935e | Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance. | god hope | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 124268a | I regret having helped you clarify your past and having told you what I did.' 'Why?' 'Because I've instilled in your heart a feeling that wasn't there before: vengeance. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| f89dc4a | Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves! | humanity inspirational selfishness | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 8c91d55 | He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds. | navigation seafaring-souls wanderlust | Alexandre Dumas | |
| fb6ae04 | The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all. | murder politics the-count-of-monte-cristo | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 4b273d9 | Na tozi sviat niama nito shchastie, nito neshchastie, ima samo sravniavane mezhdu edno s'stoianie i drugo. Nishcho poveche. Samo koito e izpital bezgranichna zlochestina, mozhe da izpita bezgranichno shchastie. Chovek triabva da e pozhelal da umre, za da razbere kolko khubav e zhivot't. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 548e9d6 | Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| e1305d5 | That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate? | fate fortune life | Alexandre Dumas | |
| d0d16f5 | Misfortune does not help us to believe. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| bb8136e | Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing sinful about a waffle. | humor waffle | Simon Schama | |
| 4cfef86 | Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people were so kind and helpful and solid. Everyone pretended that our lives until that moment had been every bit as real as the moment itself and that the future must be real too, when the truth was that our reality had been purchased only by Lyell's death. In another hour or so we had all faded out again and gone our d.. | Walker Percy | ||
| c746bf0 | What do you seek--God? you ask with a smile. I hesitate to answer, since all other Americans have settled the matter for themselves and to give such an answer would amount to setting myself a goal which everyone else has reached--and therefore raising a question in which no one has the slightest interest. Who wants to be dead last among one hundred and eighty million Americans? For, as everyone knows, the polls report that 98% of Americans .. | Walker Percy | ||
| 6a73d64 | Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon. | Walker Percy | ||
| e69e867 | It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh. | Walker Percy | ||
| 6a8b32b | Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes." "We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home." "Is everything going to be all right?" "Yes." "Tell me. Say it." "Everything is going to be all right." | Walker Percy | ||
| 0ffb396 | zndgy hmynh dygh! mthl qmrkhwnh my mwnh. my bry , my bzy. wly akhrsh hmyshh qmrkhwnh s khh brndh nhy'yh w yn m`ny sh yn nyst khh bh tw khwsh ngdhshth. | Woody Allen | ||
| 7059c18 | One day about a month ago, I really hit bottom. You know, I just felt that in a Godless universe, I didn't want to go on living. Now I happen to own this rifle, which I loaded, believe it or not, and pressed it to my forehead. And I remember thinking, at the time, I'm gonna kill myself. Then I thought, what if I'm wrong? What if there is a God? I mean, after all, nobody really knows that. But then I thought, no, you know, maybe is not good .. | existentialism nihilism suicide | Woody Allen | |
| 234bb96 | Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible. | Tahir Shah | ||
| 0a85094 | She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn't even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life's happiest days. | Steve Martin | ||
| 1ce4d87 | a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs. | Steve Martin | ||
| 38a01f2 | The Transformation from Chrysalis can take weeks, months or even years- mine took one year. And although I have become this person, I'm still in the midst of a Larger transformation, one that I won't recognize until I look back at me now and say"who was that girl?" We are constantly evolving; I suppose I have always known that, but because I always knew that, I feared stopping, and it is Ironic that it was only when I finally stopped that i.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 6d2e66b | Ruby: Oh, you know... you wait and wait for years for him until you finally give up and move on with your life. You eventually decide to marry Greg and weeks later, Alex splits up with Sally. You know, you two have the worst timing ever. When will you ever learn to catch up with each other? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| bd1d79e | all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8b45f19 | the thing about love - no one is untouchable. It's as wild as that, as raw as an open flesh wound exposed to salty sea water, but when it actually breaks, it's silent. You're just screaming on the inside and no one can hear it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f690c97 | There are so many other wonderful things that eyes could see if they really focused. Life's kind of like a painting. A rally bizarre abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is is a blur. And you can continue living your life thinking that all it is is a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. That painting could be of the sea, the sky, peop.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 1a41c6c | oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you've been given it, I'd as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift. | inspirational life | Cecelia Ahern | |
| b9799de | I suppose it's easier to see the way out of anything when you've found your way out of that maze. When you're stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it's difficult to make any sense of anything. | life | Cecelia Ahern |