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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cb5ffe1 | There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. --Milan Kundera | Jess Walter | ||
| ff98551 | He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision. | perception | Jess Walter | |
| 6cb4b1c | Be confident and the world responds to your confidence, rewards your faith. | Jess Walter | ||
| b80906b | Nick jabbed him in the arm with his fork. "What's up with you? Usually you don't shut up about my crap cooking." "Maybe I don't want to hurt your feelings." Chris snorted, finally looking up from the plate. "That'll be the day." | Brigid Kemmerer | ||
| 69ce82f | Sometimes I feel crazy being this dramatic about a love that only lasted a few months and..." She interrupted me. "Nothing crazy about it. You don't measure love like that. You measure it by its effects. It doesn't matter how long it lasted. It's how much it grows you that matters." | Jeff Brown | ||
| 4ea6f9f | Why does it often take extreme life situations to bring back an awareness of the magic and mystery of life? Why do we often wait until we're about to die before discovering a deep gratitude for life as it is? Why do we exhaust ourselves seeking love, acceptance, fame, success, or spiritual enlightenment in the future? Why do we work or meditate ourselves into the grave? Why do we postpone life? Why do we hold back from it? What are we looki.. | Jeff Foster | ||
| 2565a42 | Long memory, short fuse, big revenge. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 1e6f4eb | Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasn't just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyone's cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoors with intimacy and electric heating with connection. | sex | Heather O'Neill | |
| 5e305ef | When you are born and put into your crib, the whole world sticks their heads over the tops of the bars. They give you a name and they have all sorts of different ideas about you. ... But your task is to become something much more unique and surprising than anyone your parents could ever imagine you to be. You have to know that the life you have is completely yours. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| cc654c9 | I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you | Diana Palmer | ||
| 9cbdaa4 | All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism. | memories optimism | Diana Palmer | |
| 3a1ce56 | Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 0d6f7e5 | There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable? | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 940a7fe | The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 37fc4b4 | The more I study the works of men in their institutions, the more clearly I see that, in their efforts after independence, they become slaves, and that their very freedom is wasted in vain attempts to assure its continuance. That they may not be carried away by the flood of things, they form all sorts of attachments; then as soon as they wish to move forward they are surprised to find that everything drags them back. It seems to me that to .. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 9451775 | If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| d4bb2eb | God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus. | prayer spiritual-gifts | Watchman Nee | |
| 5e30886 | Do you know, my friends, that the Spirit within you is very God? Oh that our eyes were opened to see the greatness of God's gift! Oh that we might realize the vastness of the resources secreted in our own hearts! I could shout with joy as I think, "The Spirit who dwells within me is no mere influence, but a living Person; He is very God. The infinite God is within my heart!" I am at a loss to convey to you the blessedness of this discovery,.. | Watchman Nee | ||
| a3405c4 | Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant mov.. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| bcc66ec | I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground. | Glen Cook | ||
| 7433eaf | I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time. | Glen Cook | ||
| e35e2d2 | Maybe you never stop feeling like an eight-year-old in front of your parents. You resolve to be your mature self, to react in this considered way rather than that elemental way, to breathe evenly from the bottom of your stomach and to see your parents as equals, but within five minutes your intentions are blown to hell, and you're babbling and screaming in rage like an angry child. | parents | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 5dafa51 | Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning--it was ultimately indigestible. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 391c224 | People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about Cuba and Russia and the economy, because beneath the hard structure of words was an abyss of ignorance and not-knowing; and, in a sense, of not wanting to know. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| f0fc8b7 | In Plato's Symposium, Aristophanes accounts for this feeling of familiarity by claiming that the loved one was our long-lost 'other half to whose body our own had originally been joined. In the beginning, all human beings were hermaphrodites with double backs and flanks, four hands and four legs and two faces turned in opposite directions on the same head. These hermaphrodites were so powerful and their pride so overweening that Zeus was fo.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| c269ba9 | Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life. | status success | Alain de Botton | |
| e3d03dc | If you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 469f25d | It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 053bc46 | And I wondered, with mounting anxiety, What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think? | Alain de Botton | ||
| 4f95531 | Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to.... How different everything is for the craftsman who ... can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object--whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug--and see it as a sta.. | meaning permanence projects work | Alain de Botton | |
| 33303c1 | Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 269eb2f | There is usually a Marxist moment in every relationship, the moment when it becomes clear that love is reciprocated. The way it is resolved depends on the balance between self-love and self-hatred. If self-hatred gains the upper hand, then the one who has received love will declare that the beloved (on some excuse or other) is not good enough for them (not good enough by virtue of associating with no-goods). But if self-love gains the upper.. | Alain de Botton | ||
| ab9b924 | The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 0b25898 | We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful | seneca | Alain de Botton | |
| b9d88f2 | Never having been betrayed sets up poor preconditions for remaining faithful. Evolving into genuinely more loyal people requires us to suffer through some properly innoculative episodes, in which we feel for a time limitlessly panicked, violated and on the edge of collapse. Only then can the injunction not to betray our spouses evolve from a bland bromide into a permanently vivid moral imperative. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 3db23b6 | think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it--our life--hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly. But let all this threaten to become impossible for ever, how beautiful it would become again! Ah! if only the cataclysm doesn't happen this time, we won't miss visiting the .. | Alain de Botton | ||
| e25e861 | He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life. | Edith Hamilton | ||
| a7ad4b5 | If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 2176077 | No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 45ab9ab | I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise. | Emily Giffin | ||
| c49b4b1 | There is no grief like heartbreak. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1ffd8b7 | He who fails to plan, plans to fail. | Emily Giffin | ||
| d115503 | So I guess what I am trying to say is life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season -- or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all. Our choices. Our fleeting moments together. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 272823e | Anything worthwhile is tough. | Emily Giffin |