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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 53146bb | it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life! | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 520f872 | So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 95299b7 | she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 9a3a119 | The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 50316d8 | But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. | power selfish-motives | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 3bf34b9 | But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get | desire get life want wish | Anne Lamott | |
| 97eb135 | one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65] | Anne Lamott | ||
| b2846fc | Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f61001d | When you love something like reading--or drawing or music or nature--it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8432448 | The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk. | emptiness faith light mess opposite sense walk | Anne Lamott | |
| c2466ed | When we think we can do it all ourselves--fix, save, buy, or date a nice solution--it's hopeless. We're going to screw things up. We're going to get our tentacles wrapped around things and squirt our squiddy ink all over, so that there is even less visibility, and then we're going to squeeze the very life out of everything. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f440c23 | It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going. | help hopeless positivity | Anne Lamott | |
| 447d1c5 | When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are. | fear-quote fearless-quotes fears life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes monster monsters writing-advice writing-life writing-philosophy | Anne Lamott | |
| 1c3095c | You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 74b8f64 | NO IS A COMPLETE SENTENCE. --Anne Lamott | Greg Mckeown | ||
| db088c0 | What's the difference between you and God? God never thinks he's you. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 635927d | I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about snakes and scary neighbors. By the age of four or five, I was terrified by my thoughts. By the time I was five, the migraines began. I was so sensitive about myself and the world that I cried or shriveled up at the slightest hurt. People always told me, "You've got to get a thicker skin," like now they might say, jovially, "Let.. | sensitivity worry | Anne Lamott | |
| 177b76a | I know everything feels hopeless to you in this moment, but this is just a moment, and moments pass. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 070612f | If only we could have picked our family... | Chloe Neill | ||
| 63210f1 | I am, apparently, Darth Sullivan," he said, lifting a corner of bread to stuff the tomato back in. "I understand that building things, Death Stars or otherwise, isn't my particular strength." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 1f48e22 | Good find," Ethan said. "Yeah," Jeff agreed. "It's pretty awesome. Like finding the Higgs boson." Silence. "Aw, no physics fans here? Learn things you must," Jeff said in his best Yoda voice. I rolled my eyes." | chicagoland-vampires chloe-neill ethan-sullivan humor jeff-christopher star-wars yoda | Chloe Neill | |
| af1b239 | It's so evident to me now that just because someone is a great guy doesn't guarantee we'll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it. | relationships | Daria Snadowsky | |
| c3b93f6 | The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is. | suffering theology | John Piper | |
| 39e8ba6 | The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance--a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"--felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it." | John Piper | ||
| 7041d8e | Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy. | growth life word | John Piper | |
| 7270750 | God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn't just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world. | love mission missionary missions | John Piper | |
| 38cc32a | Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face. | writing-process | Guy Kawasaki | |
| 759cb2e | I'll love you with all the madness in my soul. | bruce-springsteen love madness soul | Bruce Springsteen | |
| c3e35f9 | cause down the shore everything's all right | Bruce Springsteen | ||
| f8c1eca | The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every day. He goes to the job, does his work, pays his bills and comes home. One plus one equals two. It keeps the world spinning. But artists, musicians, con men, poets, mystics and such are paid to turn that math on its head, to rub two sticks together and bring forth fire. Everybody performs this alchemy somewhere in their life, but it'.. | Bruce Springsteen | ||
| c84c680 | Sveta had much less to say, but she sat with Lev and held his hand, and when I asked her what had made her fall in love with him, she replied, 'I knew he was my future. When he was not there, I would look for him, and he would always appear by my side. That is love.' Sveta | love russia soulmates | Orlando Figes | |
| cb3a1e5 | 'Legs are for men's pleasure, breasts are for babies'.' " - Lib McGovern" | Pat Frank | ||
| 5d7dde1 | The true power lies with you. | christine-feehan dark-curse nicolas | Christine Feehan | |
| f7b9961 | None of this...none of this...whatever you call this." She waved her hand to encompass everything. Kissing. Taking her blood. Seducing her. Ordering her around. Setting perimeters. All of it. His black gaze never left her face. His eyes as still as those of a leopard scenting prey. Avid. Burning. Intense. He took her breath away with his eyes. Hypnotized her. Cast a spell over her. Tempest pulled her gaze from his, from the seductive, black.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| ffbba05 | Mikhail scoffed. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 36cc442 | It's Mari, Jack," Ken whispered, needing to say it aloud. "What?" Jack jerked around, staring at the sniper as the eyes fluttered closed. "Are you certain?" Ken pulled the woman's belt loose and buckled it around her leg. "Either that or your wife is playing sniper for the other team. It has to be Mari. She looks exactly like Briony." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 77ce045 | You missed him," she said. Somehow it didn't seem possible. He was so sure of himself, almost invincible in his manner. "I hit what I was aiming at," he answered quietly. "We have to keep moving. I'm hoping I slowed them down, but we can't count on it." He forced the oars through the water with his powerful arms and the boat shot through the channel toward open water. "I didn't feel anything." His gaze brushed her face, an odd little caress.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| d874e79 | There's no room for him in your head, Elle. I'm there. I'll always be there and if he tries to come in I'll drive him out until you're strong enough to do it yourself. And there was never room for him in your heart because I was already there. He couldn't touch your soul. It belongs to you and no one else unless you decide to share. | Christine Feehan | ||
| ea0c26a | Discretion is the better part of valor | Christine Feehan | ||
| 8cc7801 | When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse? | poetry suffering | T.H. White | |
| 56b892a | Oh, what a lovely owl!" Cried the Wart. But when he went up to it and held out his hand, the owl grew half as tall again, stood up as stiff as a poker, closed its eyes so that there was only the smallest slit to peep through - as you are in the habit of doing when told to shut your eyes at hide-and-seek - and said in a doubtful voice "There is no owl." Then it shut its eyes entirely and looked the other way. "It is only a boy," said Merlyn... | humor king-arthur merlyn owls sassy | T.H. White | |
| e4a60b0 | He's a wallflower." And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. "You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| d64f3ad | Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 4edff07 | He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs. | Stephen Chbosky |