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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 282efad | Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 479a327 | I missed my chance to tell you something very simple: I love you. It may be too late now, but I wanted you to know. | Paulo Coelho's | ||
| 495baa2 | There is a name for that pebble: passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's there in the excitement of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with real fervour, in the certainty that one is going to realise a dream. Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives, and it's up to me to interpret those signs. I would like to believe that I'm in lo.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9a3903f | Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy-- for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 7bd150b | signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4d86c18 | It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes and failures are entirely your own responsibility. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0ed5ed4 | No one can posses an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on the rocks. No one can posses the beautiful things of this Earth, but we can know them and love them. It is through such moments that God reveals himself to mankind. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e340d0a | Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 17d3ada | It didn't exactly depress me to think about it, but it didn't make me feel gay as hell either. Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but its too bad anyways. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 92f3dbd | As a matter of simple logic, there's no difference at all, that I can see, between the man who's greedy for material treasure --or even intellectual treasure-- and the man who's greedy for spiritual treasure. As you say, treasure's treasure, God damn it, and it seems to me that ninety percent of all the world-hating saints in history were just as acquisitive and unattractive, basically, as the rest of us are. | franny-and-zooey glass-family jd-salinger zooey | J.D. Salinger | |
| 25a5a87 | I don't like any shows very much, if you want to know the truth. They're not as bad as movies, but they're certainly nothing to rave about. In the first place, I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do. Some of the good ones do, in a very slight way, but it's not in a way that's fun to watch. And if the actor's really good, you can always tell he he's good, and that spoils it. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 4dcd600 | What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer. He said it was so terrific. That's what I can't understand. It had this guy in it named Lieutenant Henry that was supposed to be a nice guy and all. I don't see how D.B. could hate the Army and war and all so much and still like a phony like that. I mean, for instance, I don't see how he could like a phony like that.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 8d8abe5 | You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems," Zooey said. "And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled, what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom and-well, we iron things out together, that's all." -- | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 0a405dd | Surely, he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo and our one full poet. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 43e8ddd | The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs - if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. | roommates suitcases | J.D. Salinger | |
| 1fac03c | That digression business got on my nerves. I don't now. The trouble with me is, I it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all. ...lots of time you don't what interests you most till you start talking about something that interest you most. ...I like it when somebody gets excited about something. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 6ec5530 | Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no sense of humor. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 335ee69 | Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 5ef99d7 | And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't. If you do, then you do all the talking and nobody can even get a word in edgewise. If you don't like somebody - which is most of the time - then you just sit around like death itself and let the person talk themself into a hole. I've seen you do it." | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 3f6c181 | If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about.[...] It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| f24c976 | And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught:" | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 8f85a6e | Nu chto tebe ne vse ravno? Chto tebe nravitsia? - Nichego. Mne nichego ne nravitsia, - govoriu ia. - Ia kogda-nibud' chto nibud' dlia tebia znachila, Klei? Ia molchu, opiat' smotriu na meniu. - Ia kogda nibud' chto nibud' dlia tebia znachila? - snova sprashivaet ona. - Ia ne khochu, chtoby kto-to dlia menia chto-to znachil. Tak tol'ko khuzhe, odno lishnee bespokoistvo. Kogda nichego ne volnuet, ne tak bol'no. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| d28c5fe | I have to return some videos, | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| f5fd856 | The director mentions the whispers about Clifton's sexual orientation, a supposed gig on a porn site years ago, a rumor about a very famous actor and a tryst in Santa Barbara and Clifton's denial in a cover story about the very famous actor's new movie which Clifton had a small part in: 'We're so into girls it's ridiculous. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 401dbe7 | The world was overpopulated with talkers and underpopulated by listeners, | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| ebce92e | It's like having one red sock in a load of white laundry. One red sock, and nothing is ever white again. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 18343a0 | It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth. | Thomas Moore | ||
| f8ec30e | Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination | problems | Thomas Moore | |
| 22048be | As the poets and painters of centuries have tried to tell us, art is not about the expression of talent or the making of pretty things. It is about the preservation and containment of soul. It is about arresting life and making it available for contemplation. Art captures the eternal in the everyday, and it is the eternal that feeds soul--the whole world in a grain of sand. Leonardo | Thomas Moore | ||
| d94b0cb | There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money. | treasure value | Roderick Townley | |
| 7ae6774 | Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch. | David Sedaris | ||
| 6c1fcea | It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters. | David Sedaris | ||
| e0a0259 | I asked her, dreamily, if we had met, and when she told me that we had not, I gave her a little finger wave, the type a leprechaun might offer a pixie who was floating by on a maple leaf. "Well, hi there," I whispered." | dream drugs hello leprechaun pixie propofol | David Sedaris | |
| cc3cd77 | Most often, our water is shut off because of some reconstruction project, either in our village or in the next one over. A hole is dug, a pipe is replaced, and within a few hours things are back to normal. The mystery is that it's so perfectly timed to my schedule. That is to say that the tap dries up at the exact moment I roll out of bed, which is usually between 10:00 and 10:30. For me this is early, but for Hugh and most of our neighbors.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 97d9dab | Because that's really something I can't stand -- when people refer to themselves as crazy. The truly crazy are labeled so on the grounds that they see nothing wrong with their behavior. They forge ahead, lighting fires in public buildings and defecating in frying pans without the slightest notion that they are out of step with the rest of society. That, to me, is crazy. | David Sedaris | ||
| 9d2476e | I am a person who feels guilty for crimes I have not committed, or have not committed in years. The police search the train station for a serial rapist and I cover my face with a newspaper, wondering if maybe I did it in my sleep. The last thing I stole was an eight-track tape, but to this day I'm unable to enter a store without feeling like a shoplifter. It's all the anxiety with none of the free stuff. | David Sedaris | ||
| 661f4e7 | Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 08368ea | No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No time. Does it need time to be religious?" "Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odeon Bar and all that." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e8ae37e | m '`jb lsyr fy lDbb lHy@ wHd@ | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 5a0b99b | In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 3bff241 | With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| a2c07d3 | Als Korper ist jeder Mensch eins, als Selle nie. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 4254fb6 | Only when I found myself sitting in front of you did I realize that my wish was only half fulfilled and that my sole aim was to sit next to you. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 171cde5 | A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. | longing nature trees | Hermann Hesse |