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| 404c8ea | In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you,.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 32c5eec | Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 7ea996b | According to Q-Jo, the whole tarot deck, or at least the twenty-two trump cards of the Major Arcana, may be read as the Fool's journey. "On one important level," she explained, "the major cards are chapters in the story of a quest. I'm talking the universal human quest for understanding and divine reunion. And it doesn't matter whether the quest starts with the Fool or ends with him, because it's a loop anyhow, a cycle endlessly repeated. W.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3d065f0 | We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ccfdd01 | To physically overcome death - is that not the goal? - we must think the unthinkable thoughts and ask unanswerable questions. Yet we must not lose ourselves in abstract vapors of philosophy. Death ahs his concrete allies, we must enlist ours. Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer. The solution to the ultim.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| cf8e67d | Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 741fadb | You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 362ebda | For them not to have fucked then and there would have required such a reversal of the laws of nature as to cause Newton to spin in his coffin and NASA to discontinue the space program. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a608379 | And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 01b16d9 | One tended to lose one's bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate. | gentleness nonviolence violence | Tom Robbins | |
| 2223551 | There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky is sensed, is seen, although in such settings the sky itself is invariably immense. There is a place between the cerebrum and the stars where sky stops and space commences, and should we find ourselves on a particular prairie or mountaintop at a particular hour, our relationship with sky thins and loosens while our connection to space becomes.. | sky space stars transcendence | Tom Robbins | |
| c441c1d | Short or long to Goblin City? The straight way's short But the long way's pretty... | Terry Jones | ||
| ec36b7b | Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial--notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit. | bullshit philosophy sincerity truth | Harry G. Frankfurt | |
| 1cbcbaf | The mark of a wild heart is living out the paradox of love in our lives. It's the ability to be tough and tender, excited and scared, brave and afraid--all in the same moment. It's showing up in our vulnerability and our courage, being both fierce and kind. | Brené Brown | ||
| 59f8a0c | At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to say I contributed more than I criticized. | Brené Brown | ||
| f28373f | What is the hypothesis of generosity? What is the most generous assumption you can make about this person's intentions or what this person said? | Brené Brown | ||
| ef7d5d2 | The secret killer of innovation is shame. You can't measure it, but it is there. Every time someone holds back on a new idea, fails to give their manager much needed feedback, and is afraid to speak up in front of a client you can be sure shame played a part. That deep fear we all have of being wrong, of being belittled and of feeling less than, is what stops us taking the very risks required to move our companies forward. If you want a cul.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 2518d05 | The new cultural belief that everything should be fun, fast, and easy is inconsistent with hopeful thinking. It also sets us up for hopelessness. When we experience something that is difficult and requires significant time and effort, we are quick to think, This is supposed to be easy; it's not worth the effort, or, This should be easier: it's only hard and slow because I'm not good at it. Hopeful self-talk sounds more like, This is tough, .. | Brené Brown | ||
| 7fabf35 | The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. | Brené Brown | ||
| 07a15d7 | People are opting out of vital conversations about diversity and inclusivity because they fear looking wrong, saying something wrong, or being wrong. Choosing our own comfort over hard conversations is the epitome of privilege, and it corrodes trust and moves us away from meaningful and lasting change. | Brené Brown | ||
| 0b54bae | There will be times when standing alone feels too hard, too scary, and we'll doubt our ability to make our way through the uncertainty. Someone, somewhere, will say, "Don't do it. You don't have what it takes to survive the wilderness." This is when you reach deep into your wild heart and remind yourself, "I am the wilderness." | Brené Brown | ||
| 8ffc37b | I kept asking myself: What do these people with strong relationships, parents with deep connections to their children, teachers nurturing creativity and learning, clergy walking with people through faith, and trusted leaders have in common? The answer was clear: They recognize the power of emotion and they're not afraid to lean in to discomfort. | Brené Brown | ||
| aa1e6bb | The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer. | Brené Brown | ||
| f9edaf7 | I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| edc207b | Okay, I know--my superpower--I'd be able to shoot lightening bolts out from my fingertips--great big knowledge network lightening bolts--and when a person was zapped by one of those bolts, they'd fall down on their knees and once on their knees, they'd be under water, in this place I saw once off the east coast of the Bahamas, a place where a billion electric blue fish swam up to me and made me a part of their school--and then they'd be up .. | wisdom-inspirational | Douglas Coupland | |
| 3637351 | What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0b54b0a | Life is so expensive. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| a944309 | In my ears i hear a noise, and this noise is the sound of the color of the sun. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 61b2b36 | I used the phrase 'a certain age.' What I mean by this is the age people are in their heads. It's usually thirty to thirty-four. Nobody is forty in their head. When it comes to your internal age, chin wattles and relentless liver spots mean nothing. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| e56649a | Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it. | zinn | Howard Zinn | |
| e5efe4f | Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them. | funeral furlough layoffs | Howard Zinn | |
| 833b718 | The words were casual, but that was panic in his eyes. Not-- not the controlling fear Tamlin had once succumbed to, but...genuine terror of not knowing where I was, i I needed help. Just as I would want to know where he was, if he needed help, if he vanished when our enemies surrounded us. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c6c497d | We're not going to hell, Aelin," he said. "But wherever we go, we'll go together." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 2d7e804 | The Queen of Terrasen was in a fighting pit in the slums of Rifthold. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c898fc2 | Odio a esa clase de mujeres. Estan tan desesperadas por llamar la atencion de los hombres que con gusto traicionarian y perjudicarian a sus companeras de sexo. !Y luego decimos que los hombres son incapaces de pensar con el cerebro! Por lo menos, los hombres hablan claramente. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d98b38a | Luck and glory. I wouldn't mind a little of either of those things these days. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c3b4809 | I ate in silence, listening to the rustle of his clothes being donned, trying to think of ice baths, of infected wounds, of toe fungus - anything but his naked body, so close ... and the bed I was sitting on. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0f0c49f | That I would never be a gentle grower of things, or someone who burned like fire-but that i would be quiet and enduring and faceted as the night. That I would have beauty, for those who knew where to look, and if people didn't bother to look, but only fear it ... Then I didn't particularly care for them, anyway. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 22a4731 | Yo era un liviano trozo de pelusa de diente de leon, y el era el viento que me agitaba sobre el mundo. | fantasy-fiction literary-quotes | Sarah J. Maas | |
| fae727b | Punish them all. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d95d6e3 | He felt as if there were something inside him that didn't fit in with their merriment, with their willing ignorance of the world outside the castle. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| da45c96 | But these days ... she didn't know what she needed. What she wanted. If she felt like admitting it, she actually didn't have the faintest clue who the hell she was anymore. All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in. And maybe that was a good thing. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 10e0685 | Maeve went as still as death while Celaena lifted the ring between two fingers. 'I think you've been looking for this for a long time,' Celaena said. 'That does not belong to you.' 'Doesn't it? I found it, after all. in Goldryn's scabbard, where Brannon left it after grabbing it of Athril's corpse-the family ring Athril would have given you someday. And in the thousands of years since than, you never found it so. . . I suppose it's mine by .. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 984e0d8 | I felt, more than saw, my sister go still as he approached. Her throat bobbed. "Are you just going to hold that chicken all night?" Cassian asked me from the table. Scowling, I stomped toward him, plunking the platter onto the wooden surface. "I spat in it," I said sweetly. "Makes it all the more delicious," Cassian crooned, smiling right back. Rhys snickered, drinking deeply from his wine. But I strode to my seat--nestled between Amren and.. | Sarah J. Maas |