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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 3be0563 | We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. | patriotism | Al Franken | |
| d325764 | When the president during the campaign | bush foreign-policy iraq nation-building politics usa | Al Franken | |
| 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 | ||
| f10f43d | I review my three boyfriends, the three men I slept with in my twenties, searching for a common thread. Nothing. No consistent features, coloring, stature, personality. But one theme does emerge: they all picked me. And then dumped me. I played the passive role. Waiting for Hunter and then settling for Joey. Waiting to feel more for Nate. Then waiting to feel less. Waiting for Alec to go away and leave me in peace. And now Dex. My number fo.. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 3110291 | For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core. | compliments reliability steadfastness virtue | H. Rider Haggard | |
| e8d4510 | Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perfect health and the first flush of ripened beauty, yet it bore stamped upon it a seal of unutterable experience, and of deep acquaintance with grief and passion. Not even the slow smile that crept about the dimples of her mouth could hide the shadow of sin and sorrow. It shone even in the light of those glorious eyes, it was present in the air.. | beauty goddess immortality life sorrow | H. Rider Haggard | |
| 3ebddd8 | From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it's a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart." Only here's what I really, really want someone to explain to me. What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't b.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 5e998a2 | Shame is Prides cloke. | William Blake | ||
| b9fca20 | A dead body revenges not injuries. | William Blake | ||
| e385a6b | Cunts that try and psychoanalyse the fucked-up miss the crucial point: sometimes ye jist dae it cause it's thaire n that's wey ye are. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 42d7ad4 | E por ai vao, metidos nessa batalha, testando forcas e afirmando um ao outro que nao discordam fundamentalmente mesmo quando ha um abismo entre seus posicionamentos, ou ainda discutindo violentamente em cima de diferencas de enfase minimas e pedantes. Em outras palavras, estao agindo com o perfeitos estudantes de merda. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 0edec2b | Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken aw the pros and cons, know that ah'm gaunnae huv a short life, am ah sound mind, etcetera, etcetera, but still want tae use smack? They won't let ye dae it. They won't let ye dae it, because it's seen as a sign ay thir ain failure. The fact that ye jist simply choose tae reject whut they huv tae offer. Cho.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 3950f2c | Makes nae fucking difference. Rents n Stevie came up fae London for this. If Rents n Stevie kin come up fae fucking London, Sick Boy kin come up fae fuckcing France. Spud's senses were dangerously dulled with the alcohol. Stupidly, he kept the argument going. - Yeah, but, eh... France is further away... wir talking aboot the south ay France here, likesay. Ken? Begbie looked incredulously at Spud. Obviously the message had not got across. He.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 2aa6ea9 | We tend to be rather murky little ponds, containing many layers of suspended dirt and grime and our greatest depths are stirred by the strangest of currents. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| c3c89a6 | Whin yir oan junk, aw ye worry aboot is scorin. Oaf the gear, ye worry aboot loads ay things. Nae money, cannae git pished. Goat money, drinkin too much. Cannae git a burd, nae chance ay a ride. Git a burd, too much hassle, cannae breathe withoot her gittin oan yir case. Either that. or ye blow it, and feel aw guilty. Ye worry aboot bills, food, bailiffs, these Jambo Nazi scum beatin us, aw the things that ye couldnae gie a fuck aboot whin .. | trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | |
| 9e2df3e | Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism's an English thing and we're aw Jock Tamson's bairn up here . . . it's likesay pure shite man, gadges talkin through their erses. | racism scotland | Irvine Welsh | |
| a56eaa5 | ona asktan soz ettim. o ise askin din gibi bir sey oldugunu, aslinda var olmadigi halde sistemin bizi daha kolay kullanmak icin uydurdugu bir sey oldugunu soyledi. | Irvine Welsh |