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| c1fb030 | The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that doesn't really exist, but everyone knows about it anyway. Fairyland lies only in the eye of the beholder who is usually a fabricator of fantasy. So what good is it, this enchanted, fickle land which in some tales bodes little good to humans and, in others, is the land of peace and perpetual summer where everyone longs to be? Perhaps it's ju.. | dreams fairyland fantasy mermaids | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| c08b8a8 | Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again. | afraid fear freedom life marguerite-duras wisdom | Marguerite Duras | |
| 284c7c7 | O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes--pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death--there stood Henry Jekyll! | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| a671583 | It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both; and from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned .. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| dce2796 | An imperturbable demeanour comes from perfect patience. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 6091021 | And I saw on this hill, since my eyesight's so keen, the two biggest fools that have ever been seen! And the fools that I saw were none other than you, who seem to have nothing else better to do than sit here and argue who's better than who! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 404c8ea | In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you,.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 32c5eec | Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 7ea996b | According to Q-Jo, the whole tarot deck, or at least the twenty-two trump cards of the Major Arcana, may be read as the Fool's journey. "On one important level," she explained, "the major cards are chapters in the story of a quest. I'm talking the universal human quest for understanding and divine reunion. And it doesn't matter whether the quest starts with the Fool or ends with him, because it's a loop anyhow, a cycle endlessly repeated. W.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3d065f0 | We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ccfdd01 | To physically overcome death - is that not the goal? - we must think the unthinkable thoughts and ask unanswerable questions. Yet we must not lose ourselves in abstract vapors of philosophy. Death ahs his concrete allies, we must enlist ours. Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer. The solution to the ultim.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| cf8e67d | Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 741fadb | You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 362ebda | For them not to have fucked then and there would have required such a reversal of the laws of nature as to cause Newton to spin in his coffin and NASA to discontinue the space program. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a608379 | And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 01b16d9 | One tended to lose one's bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate. | gentleness nonviolence violence | Tom Robbins | |
| 2223551 | There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky is sensed, is seen, although in such settings the sky itself is invariably immense. There is a place between the cerebrum and the stars where sky stops and space commences, and should we find ourselves on a particular prairie or mountaintop at a particular hour, our relationship with sky thins and loosens while our connection to space becomes.. | sky space stars transcendence | Tom Robbins | |
| c441c1d | Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty... | Terry Jones | ||
| ec36b7b | Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial--notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit. | bullshit philosophy sincerity truth | Harry G. Frankfurt | |
| 1cbcbaf | The mark of a wild heart is living out the paradox of love in our lives. It's the ability to be tough and tender, excited and scared, brave and afraid--all in the same moment. It's showing up in our vulnerability and our courage, being both fierce and kind. | Brené Brown | ||
| 59f8a0c | At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to say I contributed more than I criticized. | Brené Brown | ||
| f28373f | What is the hypothesis of generosity? What is the most generous assumption you can make about this person's intentions or what this person said? | Brené Brown | ||
| ef7d5d2 | The secret killer of innovation is shame. You can't measure it, but it is there. Every time someone holds back on a new idea, fails to give their manager much needed feedback, and is afraid to speak up in front of a client you can be sure shame played a part. That deep fear we all have of being wrong, of being belittled and of feeling less than, is what stops us taking the very risks required to move our companies forward. If you want a cul.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 2518d05 | The new cultural belief that everything should be fun, fast, and easy is inconsistent with hopeful thinking. It also sets us up for hopelessness. When we experience something that is difficult and requires significant time and effort, we are quick to think, This is supposed to be easy; it's not worth the effort, or, This should be easier: it's only hard and slow because I'm not good at it. Hopeful self-talk sounds more like, This is tough, .. | Brené Brown | ||
| 7fabf35 | The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. | Brené Brown | ||
| 07a15d7 | People are opting out of vital conversations about diversity and inclusivity because they fear looking wrong, saying something wrong, or being wrong. Choosing our own comfort over hard conversations is the epitome of privilege, and it corrodes trust and moves us away from meaningful and lasting change. | Brené Brown | ||
| 0b54bae | There will be times when standing alone feels too hard, too scary, and we'll doubt our ability to make our way through the uncertainty. Someone, somewhere, will say, "Don't do it. You don't have what it takes to survive the wilderness." This is when you reach deep into your wild heart and remind yourself, "I am the wilderness." | Brené Brown | ||
| 8ffc37b | I kept asking myself: What do these people with strong relationships, parents with deep connections to their children, teachers nurturing creativity and learning, clergy walking with people through faith, and trusted leaders have in common? The answer was clear: They recognize the power of emotion and they're not afraid to lean in to discomfort. | Brené Brown | ||
| aa1e6bb | The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer. | Brené Brown | ||
| be6bef5 | Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE.. | family fathers homelessness | Nick Flynn | |
| f55ebb6 | He wore a tiny turquoise stud earring I always associated with Dungeons and Dragons types. Men who own ferrets and think magic tricks are cool. | dungeons-and-dragons ferrets geeks nerds | Gillian Flynn | |
| f0cb4b4 | I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.) | compulsive-lying crazy-bitch ego egotistical fantasy liar lie lies out-of-touch-with-reality pretending reality self-righteous smile smiling superiority-complex vain vainity wannabe wannabewriter writer writing | Gillian Flynn | |
| fe46dd6 | People have to do awful things for money. | money-issues | Gillian Flynn | |
| f929c36 | Visible mourning reminds us of death, which is construed as unnatural, a failure to manage the situation. "A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty," Philippe Aries wrote to the point of this aversion in Western Attitudes toward Death. "But one no longer has the right to say so aloud." | Joan Didion | ||
| f2df357 | When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them. | Joan Didion | ||
| eaaead8 | Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place. | criticism film movie reviewers | Joan Didion | |
| e169e88 | It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it, incorporating it, getting past it. I recognize now there was nothing unusual in this: confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which the plane fell, the routine errand that ended on the shoulder with.. | joan didion | ||
| 7721535 | They feed back exactly what is given them. Because they do not believe in words - words are for "typeheads," Chester Anderson tells them, and a thought which needs words is just one more of those ego trips - their only proficient vocabulary is in the society's platitudes. As it happens I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language, and I am not optimistic about children .. | Joan Didion | ||
| 78ec928 | Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All I know about grammar is its infinite power. To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed. Many people know about camera angles now, but not so many know about sentences. The arrangement of the words .. | Joan Didion | ||
| 4674ca0 | It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends. | Joan Didion | ||
| 4ef4853 | I was cold because nothing in my body was working as it should. | Joan Didion | ||
| 08341e8 | Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice | Joan Didion | ||
| 4e2540b | TESLA'S CAT [Nikola Tesla's favorite childhood companion] was the family's black cat, Macak. Macak followed young Nikola everywhere, and they spent many happy hours rolling on the grass. It was Macak the cat who introduced Tesla to electricity on a dry winter evening. "As I stroked Macak's back," he recalled, "I saw a miracle that made me speechless with amazement. Macak's back was a sheet of light and my hand produced a shower of sparks.. | macak static-electricity tesla | W. Bernard Carlson | |
| fef8416 | Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from.. | William Styron |