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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 54cc5e2 | Tension of opposites. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 23ca0c2 | There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage." -- | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5c18644 | Things that happen before you are born still affect you... And people who come before your time affect you as well. We move through places everyday that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time - we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b804f5e | I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole. | five-people-you-meet-in-heaven foxhole middle-of-a-big-war orders religion war | Mitch Albom | |
| 0a37368 | We're gonna make up for that. We're gonna live a long time together. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 31533b4 | Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me? | Mitch Albom | ||
| d1f2e5d | At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else. | life | Mitch Albom | |
| 13c9a3a | He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 194030d | It doesn't matter to me what you did, there are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential. What you've told me hasn't changed the way I think; I'll say again, I would be delegated to be your companion for the rest of your life-but you must think over very carefully whether I am the man for you or not. | romance | Laura Esquivel | |
| 4b77c8f | The simple truth is that the truth does not exist; it all depends on a person's point of view. | latin-american magic-realism | Laura Esquivel | |
| 2009f32 | Tita bajo la cabeza y con la misma fuerza con que sus lagrimas cayeron sobre la mesa, asi cayo sobre ella su destino. Y desde ese momento supieron ella y la mesa que no podian modificar ni tantito la direccion de esas fuerzas desconocidas que la obligaban, a la una, a compartir con Tita su sino, recibiendo sus amargas lagrimas desde el momento en que nacio, y a la otra a asumir esa absurda determinacion | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 574f554 | there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| ff9bfe3 | Hush little owl, You're with Twi. I got the moves to get you by. Big bad crows. St. Aggie's scamps Ain't got nothin to show the champ. I'll pop a spiral With a twist, Do a three-sixty And scatter mist---- | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| ab6d29e | Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again. | unity | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 77b72bd | Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between eight and nine it was an intrusion; thereafter calls could be made until ten in the evening, although anything after nine-thirty required an apology for the disturbance. After ten one was into emergency time again. | telephone-calls telephone-etiquette | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| a685afb | The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| ed27cbb | If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical. | expediency i-ching morality right-and-wrong taoism | Philip K. Dick | |
| 0e26f91 | sr`n m Hjbt ldhkryt lHDr klh. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 8e03e40 | khyr llnsn 'n yuqtl mn 'n yqtl | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 852d562 | He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 9ab27f2 | Death is more merciful than hope itself! There is nothing surprising in this, for death is divinely appointed, while hope is the creation of human folly. Both end in frustration. Am I destined to lead a life of endless frustration? -(The Beginning and the End) | frustration hope | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| f944f34 | wlys 'shq `l~ lnfs mn tGyyr `d@ | habbit | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| b743164 | 'l ywjd wsT byn lnGlq wlnftH ? .. 'l twjd strH@ ldhwy ldkhl lmHdwd? | income | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| ea0ceaf | wk'n~ 'ntbh l~ qlb~ l'wl mr@, f'Hs bh `Dwan Hyan mthl bqy@ l'`D, yjw` jw` lm`d@, wyrq rq@ lnfs, wytshwf tshwf lrwH, ftmnyt 'n 'krs Hyt~ ls`dth, wn stslm lHnn lmt`@ lt~ ttfjr `nh ynby`h. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 1db3f86 | lHkm `lm wkhbr@ wmqdr@ l nf~ 'w sjn 'w `tql | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 5cec1e3 | Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 1d73cf5 | I know many people far more upright and conscientous than I am who disagree, who think nothing of it. I know that vegetarianism runs against mankind's most casual assumptions about the world and our place within it. And I know that factory farming is an economic inevitability, not likely to end anytime soon. But I don't answer to inevitabilities, and neither do you. I don't answer to the economy. I don't answer to tradition and I don't ans.. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 86841a6 | My earliest recollection is of coming upon some rabbit tracks in the backyard snow. I must have been three or so, but I had never seen a rabbit and can still recall the feeling of being completely captivated by the tracks: Someone had been here. And he left these prints. And he was alive. And he lived somewhere nearby, maybe even watching me at this very moment. Four decades later, I do not need to be reminded that rabbits are often a nui.. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 793c75a | Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11). | bonus christianity corinthians excess giving god income increase raise scripture sharing standard-of-living stewardship | Randy Alcorn | |
| e0ed94b | A kind of joyous hysteria moved into the room, everything flying before the wind, vehicles outside getting dented to hell, the crowd sweaty and the smells of aftershave, manure, clothes dried on the line, your money's worth of perfume, smoke, booze; the music subdued by the shout and babble through the bass hammer could be felt through the soles of the feet, shooting up the channels of legs to the body fork, center of everything. It is the .. | dance saturday | Annie Proulx | |
| a360a93 | The room stank of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpet and sour hay, saddle leather, shit and cheap soap. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 339078c | And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| e9766fb | The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program." | elite-program orwell totalitarianism | William S. Burroughs | |
| 2e5a6d4 | Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave. | Epictetus Epictetus | ||
| 44cc50b | Why do you want to read anyway - for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it? | Epictetus | ||
| 8e364c0 | The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter. | philosophy | Epictetus | |
| 92ff562 | For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. | Epictetus | ||
| b57a91c | As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun. | humbleness sun | Epictetus | |
| 06462d2 | You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses. | Epictetus | ||
| 1d88005 | Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| cf91a90 | Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life. | life state-benefits welfare | Jeannette Walls | |
| c2100fe | This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently. | aware conscious | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 6e66d48 | The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it. | Luanne Rice | ||
| fdd8115 | Clear nights are sometimes the coldest. | women | Luanne Rice |