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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3761a53 | too many maniacs not enough michelangelos | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ca64d2e | It all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever--or not?" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 19ede69 | Silence and solitude are universally recognized spiritual practices, and there are good reasons for this. Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss. | rituals | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 0c44143 | how could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3dafd61 | I want to learn how to speak Italian. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f33072a | It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us. | marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 566ccc2 | lm ynqdhny 'myr , bl knt 'n mdyr@ `mly@ nqdhy | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d957a1d | What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 54d1f00 | Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live. | hope inspirational life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| d4f6839 | Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. From the distant past to the unknowable future, my mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. This in itself is not necessarily a problem; the problem is the emotional attachment that goes along with the thi.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 20b8f10 | However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off, mainly in consequence of the antagonism between the ills of the body and the ills of the mind. If we are in great bodily pain, or the pain lasts a long time, we become indifferent to other troubles; all we think about is to get well. In the same way great mental suffering makes us insensible to bodily pain; we despise it; nay, if it shoul.. | pessimism schopenhauer studies-in-pessimism suicide | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 09e8c65 | As Nietzsche said, "If we have our own 'why' of life, we shall get along with any 'how." | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 026b6cf | Je crois que je comprends bien comment ca peut te faire. Nous avons essayee de batir notre amour par-dela les instants, mais seuls les instants sont surs. Pour le reste on a besoin de foi; et la foi, est-ce courage ou paresse? | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 1ce61cc | It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand it. There | Sarah Bakewell | ||
| d581ae9 | My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. | excruciation joy | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 9d4ae74 | Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we'll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn't mean we'll get turned into witches. You can't avoid getting zapped, but you can avoid passing the mean energy on. That's the interesting thing about witches, the challenge of them-- learning not to hit back, or hit somebody else, when they zap you. You can bury the zap, for instance, like the gods buried the Titans in the center of the earth... | David James Duncan | ||
| 9562754 | I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there. | Peter Straub | ||
| 347fd6e | I tell them dance begins when a moment of hurt combines with a moment of boredom. I tell them it's the body's reaching, bringing air to itself. I tell them that it's the heart's triumph, the victory speech of the feet, the refinement of animal lunge and flight, the purest metaphor of tribe and self. It's life flipping death the bird. I make this stuff up. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 8f2a5dd | Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them, they had changed - they suddenly had more space or a tilt or a door that had not been there before. New people were milling around, the floors undulated, and the sun shone newly, strangely in the windows, or through the now blasted-open ceiling, or else it shone not at all, as if having fled the sky. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| a58e393 | This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grow sarcastic. | love sacrasm | Lorrie Moore | |
| f4daaaf | I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| a2a57ab | Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn't bravery at all. It is automatic, unflinching, a mix of man and machine, consuming and unquestionable obligation meeting illness move for move in a giant even-steven game of chess - an unending round of something that looks like shadowboxing, though between love and death, which is the shadow? "Everyone admires us for our courage," says one ma.. | courage death death-and-love death-and-sickness death-of-a-loved-one illness love | Lorrie Moore | |
| 99b2489 | I wondered about the half-life of regret. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 2111f51 | You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex? | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 91f21f5 | Common people do not pray; they only beg. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| c2de9fa | I try to follow his example, not to imitate him. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 6928290 | The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. | morality | George Bernard Shaw | |
| baaca4a | HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly. NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well. | esl language language-learning pronunciation | George Bernard Shaw | |
| a71c72d | Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness | irreverence | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 4580c4b | Question: What if a negative feeling toward someone or a situation persists, despite my intention and effort to let it go? Answer: Sometimes one is more or less forced to surrender to a situation and presume that it's karmic. With spiritual research, one finds out that it is indeed karmic. Let's say you are paying off the karma of being mean to a lot of people! Now you get a chance to see what it's like to have people be mean to you. Someti.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| a42030f | Facts are accumulated by effort, but truth reveals itself effortlessly.4 | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 336d508 | Pain tells us that we have put our survival onto something that is a violation of some principle of consciousness. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 63d4558 | When was the last time we slept?" "Day before yesterday?" Amy asked with a frown. "I know what you mean. This is some jet lag. Let's get a coffee while we make a plan." "Oh, yeah. Jet lag. That must be it," Dan agreed as he trailed after her to the espresso bar. "Not the fact that we pulled off a museum heist, went without sleep and food, and oh, yeah--did I mention this--almost got killed? Jet lag. why we're tired." "Well, if you want to.. | Jude Watson | ||
| a0ea1b4 | We just stole a painting and smuggled ourselves off a train," Amy said, trying to sound confident. "And we can't ?" | Jude Watson | ||
| bc40b95 | McIntyre hesitated, and for a moment the tall, gray-haired man looked almost boyish. "After all this time...don't you think you could call me William?" Amy and Dan exchanged glances. As fond as they were of him, they couldn't imagine calling their lawyer by his first name. He saw the hesitation on their faces. "Will?" Amy cleared her throat. Dan fiddled with the new GPS. "How about 'Mac'?" "Mac," Dan said, trying out the name. Mr. McIntyre .. | Jude Watson | ||
| 092390d | Hamilton awkwardly folded himself into the passenger seat. "Couldn't you get something bigger?" he asked as he banged his knee against the dashboard. "We're supposed to be a diversion," Jonah said. "Got to make an entrance. Can't do that in a minivan, Giganto Boy. Can't do much in a minivan except look about as uncool as it gets." "Hey! My dad drives a minivan." "Snap." | Jude Watson | ||
| 6c19878 | Evelyn: [drunk] You're wondering, 'What is a place like me doing in a girl like this?' Rick: Yeah, something like that. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 2d52da7 | Freud was fascinated with depression and focused on the issue that we began with--why is it that most of us can have occasional terrible experiences, feel depressed, and then recover, while a few of us collapse into major depression (melancholia)? In his classic essay "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917), Freud began with what the two have in common. In both cases, he felt, there is the loss of a love object. (In Freudian terms, such an "objec.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| d2c8e71 | because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart. | Kate Elliott | ||
| bdef74e | Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness. | humanity literature reading | Harold Bloom | |
| ae4b84b | The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| bb9bb07 | Green is made of yellow and blue, nothing else, but when you look at green, where've the yellow and the blue gone? Somehow this is to do with Moran's dad. Somehow this is to do with everyone and everything. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8bce094 | I once defenestrated a guy. The cops got all pissed off at me. I was drunk, but they said that was no excuse." "Ah well," Virgil said. Then, "The guy hurt bad?" "Cracked his hip. Landed on a Prius. Really fucked up the Prius, too." "I can tell you, just now is the only time in my life I ever heard 'defenestration' used in a sentence," Virgil said. "It's a word you learn after you done it," Morton said. "Yup. The New Prague AmericInn, 2009.".. | John Sandford | ||
| 819e210 | Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ? | kurds peacekeepers un world | Jean Sasson |