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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 08a7f1c | Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat | Robert Jordan | ||
| 426916f | Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. [...] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 74387c1 | I figured that once you've decided to jump off a cliff, you might as well pick the highest one. Why accept the risk, if not for the greatest prize? | Robert Jordan | ||
| 42d903c | You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead. | time loial rand wheel | Robert Jordan | |
| 33d2583 | Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger. | Robert Jordan | ||
| ebb6308 | I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking." | kaylin-neya | Michelle Sagara West | |
| acc35e4 | The fiesta was really started. It kept up day and night for seven days. The dancing kept up, the drinking kept up, the noise went on. The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta. All during the fiesta you had the feeling even when it was quiet, that you h.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| d40e3c3 | The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time--His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| e72d6a6 | Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules? | legalism | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 6233ddc | The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that. | friends disciplined-christian elisabeth-elliot | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| c70f074 | For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life.. | Barack Obama | ||
| a037f06 | America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams. | american-dream immigration race | Barack Obama | |
| c35a6ad | Years later, after I'd met and married my husband--a man who is light-skinned to some and dark-skinned to others, who speaks like an Ivy League-educated black Hawaiian raised by white middle-class Kansans--I'd see this confusion play out on the national stage among whites and blacks alike, the need to situate someone inside his or her ethnicity and the frustration that comes when it can't easily be done. America would bring to Barack Obama .. | Michelle Obama | ||
| c7473e2 | all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course. | Barack Obama | ||
| b427621 | The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 75b068e | I also had to detach myself from my thoughts through turning my desire away from them. And at once, I noticed that my self became a desert, where only the sun of unquiet desire burned. I was overwhelmed by the endless infertility of this desert. Even if something could have thrived there, the creative power of desire was still absent. Wherever the creative power of desire is, there springs the soil's own seed. But do not forget to wait. Did.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 1d2a6e4 | There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance. This also happens to animals; for example, a sexually excited stag will completely forget hunger and security. This one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it, "loss of soul." A.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| bf70cb3 | To be "normal" is a splendid ideal for the unsuccessful," | C.G. Jung | ||
| 8c6723b | A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally shortsighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations, though one would think that the world had seen more than enough of what a well-disciplined mob can do in the hands of a single madman. Unfortunately, this realization does not seem to have penetrated very far - and .. | philosophy collective-consciousness mob-mentality establishment subconscious individualism government democracy state psychology | C.G. Jung | |
| da157f2 | Praising and encouraging are very close to pushing, and when you do that you are trying again to take control of his life. Think about why you are lauding something he's done. Is it to help raise his self-esteem? That's manipulation. Is it so he will continue whatever behavior you're praising? That's manipulation. Is it so that he'll know how proud you are of him? That can be a burden for him to carry. Let him develop his own pride from his.. | Robin Norwood | ||
| 81946fc | progress comes not only in great leaps but also from hundreds of small steps. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c1a6466 | Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 93040ab | My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 19fc589 | Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car. | verbal-diarrhea talking | Jonathan Lethem | |
| 4891125 | One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning. | Alice Munro | ||
| 00df91f | I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake. | Alice Munro | ||
| 8c71247 | It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust. | Alice Munro | ||
| c54243c | Oshche sega stani skala, v koiato v'lnite na zhivota shche se udriat naprazno... | life | James Clavell | |
| 81e1dd0 | Fred!" the nurse said, though they had never met. "How are we today?" Reading the nurse's name tag, Mr. Bennet replied with fake enthusiasm, "Bernard! We're mourning the death of manners and the rise of overly familiar discourse. How are you?" | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 064b109 | I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 8d931f3 | In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 0ddcd7b | The distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 76e925b | The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 24536fa | Life is precious, Jacob thought. The most important of all thoughts, and the most obvious, and the most difficult to remember to have. How different my life would have been if I could have had that thought before I was forced to. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 5987073 | My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp. | dreams noah-s-ark | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 11d3ed1 | He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that could you recommend. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| f1462bf | So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make bea.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e39038e | The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!" | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 0bc53b9 | Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement. | life | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 1e5ae8a | Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 6b7c272 | Without context, we'd all be monsters. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 2f43e58 | This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling patience and wetness of water. Whether it comes to you in a storm or in a cup, it owns you--we are more water than dust. It is our origin and our destination. | Denis Johnson | ||
| 4a4b6e6 | I know they argue about whether or not it's right, whether or not the baby is alive at this point or that point in its growth inside the womb. This wasn't about that. It wasn't what the lawyers did. It wasn't what the doctors did, it wasn't what the woman did. It was what the mother and father did together. | Denis Johnson | ||
| e2b2496 | I knew that, but he didn't, and therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person's life on this earth. I don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn't tell him what was real. | Denis Johnson |