1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2039
2040
2041
2042
2043
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| fb9b711 | It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you merely reinfect the wound, and every moment you spend with them is like a speck of glass working itself deeper into your flesh. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 57f640d | I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 4a226d5 | Science fiction as a genre has the benefit of being able to act as parable, to set up a story at a remove so you can make a real-world point without people throwing up a wall in front of it. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 38468af | Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| db483b2 | My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It's not an attractive sound, that. It's high-pitched and it enters your ear canals like hot glass. No matter how much I love my daughter, I will never love her squealing. Or maybe I will. Maybe I do. Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can't remember when a block of it didn't rest on top of .. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| b04bc30 | Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| eb7afd2 | Those who did remember probably shrugged off the chill of her memory, turned their heads down to the sports page or up toward the approaching bus. The world is a terrible place, they thought. Bad things happen every day. My bus is late. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c12713b | It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 514b5ac | How am I coping? I miss George and the goddamn world is still full of zombies, that's how. Everything else... Everything else is just details. And those don't really matter to me anymore. | Mira Grant | ||
| 27e0b4f | I love you," Buttercup said. "I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more." | William Goldman | ||
| 854f3d3 | Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. | michael-corleone the-godfather tom-hagen | Mario Puzo | |
| e1bffa7 | She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they're thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they'd just accuse you of being paranoid. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 908b9b5 | Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it. They chose each other. Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked in celebration . In the night air , Nate thought he could hear Serena and Blairs' laughter, though he knew that was impossible; they were too far away by now. But as we know, in this city anything is possible | boys friendship love | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 9ab7037 | There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant -- sail for Asia and stumble on America -- and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along. | Jess Walter | ||
| 7fab08b | Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together. | Jess Walter | ||
| 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 |