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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e517dfe | The great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the master of the things that try to enslave us. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ea0a02d | But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| be49df6 | Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real "I" to reveal itself." | normality | Paulo Coelho | |
| 24400f7 | It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 556098c | In fact , the life is generous with who lives his personal legend. | personal the-alchemist | Paulo Coelho | |
| bb734a1 | lHb dy'm jdyd . wl frq dh 'Hbbn mr@ wHd@ 'w thntyn 'w thlth fy Hytn . fnn dy'm njd 'nfsn 'mm mwqf mjhwl ; qd yfDy bn lHb l~ ljHym 'w l~ lfrdws , lknh dy'm yfDy bn l~ mkn m | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a50b12c | Optimism is contagious, he states. If that were the case, all your would have to do is go to the person you loved with a huge grin, full of plans and ideas, and know how to present the package. Does it work? No. What is really contagious is fear, the constant fear of never finding someone to accompany us to the end of our days. And in the name of this fear we are capable of doing anything, including accepting the wrong person and convincing.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 501decb | Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 54cc0cf | Durante toda mi vida he entendido el amor como una especie de esclavitud consentida. Pero esto no es asi: la libertad solo existe cuando existe el amor. Quien se entrega totalmente, quien se siente libre, ama al maximo. Y quien ama al maximo, se siente libre. Pero en el amor, cada uno de nosotros es responsable por lo que siente, y no puede culpar al otro por eso. Nadie pierde a nadie porque nadie posee a nadie. Y esta es la verdadera exp.. | freedom libertad love once-minutos | Paulo Coelho | |
| 0f9b2bb | According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature. | love | Paulo Coelho | |
| ec29a26 | Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c12f006 | Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 189e0b7 | At that moment, Maria learned that certain things are lost forever. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 3580fb6 | As so often in life, things are not always what it seems. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 6eac8a5 | Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a6e8169 | What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie." | Paulo Coelho | ||
| d0f6edd | You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| d01fd77 | Never wants to what?" Meet anybody for a . Oh, he had to go out last night and meet this television writer for a drink downtown, in the Village and all. That's what started it. He says the only people he ever really wants to meet for a drink somewhere are all either dead or unavailable. He says he never even wants to have with anybody, even, unless he thinks there's a it's going to turn out to be Jesus, the person - or the Buddha, or H.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| e6dd2ef | Mary Jane. Listen. Please," Eloise said, sobbing. "You remember our freshman year, and I had that brown-and-yellow dress I bought in Boise, and Miriam Ball told me nobody wore those kind of dresses in New York, and I cried all night?" Eloise shook Mary Jane's arm. "I was a nice girl," she pleaded, "wasn't I?" | J.D. Salinger | ||
| b3353ff | I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative." | education wisdom | J.D. Salinger | |
| f525482 | He says the only people he ever really wants to meet for a drink somewhere are all either dead or unavailable. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 01bd5ce | I love you I love you I love you. Do you actually know I've only danced with you twice in eleven months? | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 19494b2 | I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 9a29748 | You keep records of their troubles. You'll learn from them. If you want to Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education, it's history. | J. D. Salinger | ||
| e3cb96a | It's funny. You take adults, they look lousy when they're asleep and they have their mouths way open, but kids don't. Kids look alright. They can even have spit all over the pillow and they still look alright. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 8116a01 | People always think something's all true. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 5b85720 | I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way all Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| ce292fa | I privately say to you old friend (unto you, really, I'm afraid), please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parenthesis: (((( )))). I suppose, most unflorally, I truly mean them to be taken, first off as bow-legged--buckle-legged--omens of my state of mind and body at this writing. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 3393b6d | I'm into, oh, murders and executions mostly. It depends." I shrug. "Do you like it?" she asks, unfazed. "Um ... It depends. Why?" I take a bite of sorbet. "Well, most guys I know who work in mergers and acquisitions don't really like it," she says." | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 19fa661 | This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one's taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a gesture, of receiving another person's love or kindness. Nothing was affirmative, the term "generosity of spirit" applied to nothing, was a cliche, was some kind of bad joke. Sex is mathematics. Indi.. | disbelief inhuman satire surface | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| ff6971c | But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian grasped my hand that had gone numb on the armrest separating our seats. He did this because in the book Julian Wells lived but in the movie's new scenario he had to die. He had to be punished for all of his sins. That's what the movie demanded. (Later, as a screenwriter, I learned it's what all movies demanded.) When this scene occurred, in t.. | screenplays writing | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| faadc1b | Did you know I was born in a Holiday Inn. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 3fb2293 | On the TV screen in Harry's is The Patty Winters Show, which is now on in the afternoon and is up against Geraldo Rivera, Phil Donahue and Oprah Winfrey. Today's topic is Does Economic Success Equal Happiness? The answer, in Harry's this afternoon, is a roar of resounding "Definitely," followed by much hooting, the guys all cheering together in a friendly way. On the screen now are scenes from President Bush's inauguration early this year, .. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 25ff422 | it seemed as if the Internet was governed more by fear: the fear of unpopularity and uncoolness, the fear of missing out, the fear of being flamed or forgotten. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 5729e96 | there are few things harder to imagine than other people's conversations about yourself. | jonathan franzen | ||
| b4d0134 | And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than a her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, an a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 4154239 | I had started keeping a journal, and I was discovering that I didn't need school in order to experience the misery of appearances. I could manufacture excruciating embarrassment in the privacy of my bedroom, simply by reading what I'd written in the journal the day before. Its pages faithfully mirrored my fraudulence and pomposity and immaturity. Reading it made me desperate to change myself, to sound less idiotic. As George Benson had stre.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 4e05b0e | He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 72963cb | Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement--Demeter's grain and fruit--it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate. | Thomas Moore | ||
| c07bec7 | Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - "Love is blind." But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madnes.. | craving divine divinity enlightenment illusion imagination love lover madness platohtenment | Thomas Moore | |
| b8d9f48 | Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge. | David Sedaris | ||
| 60c3b76 | There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could. | David Sedaris | ||
| 4164424 | Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table." | humor | David Sedaris | |
| dd5715f | Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the knob is asked to identify himself. The agent then says, "I'm going to ask you to come with me." | television tv | David Sedaris |