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| 2da23c5 | We began reading books together. He loved Dr. Seuss. I read those books so often I could turn the pages and say the words from memory. I became bored with repetition, and I began to make subtle alterations. The story turned into: And: | John Elder Robison | ||
| 2f67c1d | Now smile a real smile for me so I know you`re not suffering inside. | Kevin Henkes | ||
| 4fdb03d | There are smiles that actually travel along telephone wires, although no engineer at Bell Laboratories could explain how it works. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a1531fb | Every nutritious sexual recipe calls for at least a pinch of love, and the fucks that rate four-star rankings from both gourmets and health-food nuts used cupfuls. Not that sex should be regarded as therapeutic or to be taken for medicinal purposes - only a dullard would hang such a millstone around the nibbled neck of a lay - but to approach sex carelessly, shallowly, with detachment and without warmth is to dine night after night in eroti.. | sex | Tom Robbins | |
| b07ab1a | Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government. | cuba passivity government revolution | Tom Robbins | |
| c715192 | Information about time cannot be imparted in a straightforward way. Like furniture, it has to be tipped and tilted to get it through the door. If the past is a solid oak buffet whose legs must be unscrewed and whose drawers must be removed before, in an altered state, it can be upended into the entryway of our minds, then the future is a king-size waterbed that hardly stands a chance, especially if it needs to be brought up in an elevator. .. | present time past | Tom Robbins | |
| 9f7a8af | The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within. | oysters shutters new-orleans | Tom Robbins | |
| 25cd6f5 | logic limits love, which may be why Descartes never married. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4e4009d | Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all licked our bones. That's why, when we ponder--as sooner or later each of us must--exactly what we ought to be doing about our soul, religion is the wrong, if conventional, place to turn. Religion is little more than a transaction in which troubled people trade their souls for temporary and wholly illusionary psychological comfort--the old give-i.. | soul | Tom Robbins | |
| 4d404b6 | When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don't fit with who we think we're supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving. Our sense of worthiness--that critically important piece that gives us access to love and belonging--lives inside of our story. | Brené Brown | ||
| 51fb304 | This is the shame of the woman whose hand hides her smile because her teeth are so bad, not the grand self-hate that leads some to razors or pills or swan dives off beautiful bridges however tragic that is. This is the shame of seeing yourself, of being ashamed of where you live and what your father's paycheck lets you eat and wear. This is the shame of the fat and the bald, the unbearable blush of acne, the shame of having no lunch money a.. | Brené Brown | ||
| e6441ea | Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel unsure around you. We were.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 569d0f7 | When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness--the feeling that we are enough just as we are and that we are worthy of love and belonging. | Brené Brown | ||
| e64178a | What do we call a story that's based on limited real data and imagined data and blended into a coherent, emotionally satisfying version of reality? A conspiracy theory. | Brené Brown | ||
| a547077 | The important thing to know about worthiness is that it doesn't have prerequisites. Most of us, on the other hand, have a long list of worthiness prerequisites--qualifiers that we've inherited, learned, and unknowingly picked up along the way. Most of these prerequisites fall in the categories of accomplishments, acquisitions, and external acceptance. It's the if/when problem ("I'll be worthy when ..." or "I'll be worthy if ...")." | Brené Brown | ||
| a141325 | The connection that we forge by judging and mocking others is not real connection, | Brené Brown | ||
| b4887ba | Self-kindness: Being warm and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate, rather than ignoring our pain or flagellating ourselves with self-criticism. Common humanity: Common humanity recognizes that suffering and feelings of personal inadequacy are part of the shared human experience--something we all go through rather than something that happens to "me" alone. Mindfulness: Taking a balanced approach to negativ.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 0fa5822 | When we engage in dehumanizing rhetoric or promote dehumanizing images, we diminish our own humanity in the process. When we reduce Muslim people to terrorists or Mexicans to "illegals" or police officers to pigs, it says nothing at all about the people we're attacking. It does, however, say volumes about who we are and the degree to which we're operating in our integrity." | Brené Brown | ||
| 2c697c6 | It's helpful to keep in mind Alberto Brandolini's Bullshit Asymmetry Principle or what's sometimes known as Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." | Brené Brown | ||
| 2999abd | In his book The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk, a professor of psychiatry at Boston University, explores how trauma literally reshapes the brain and the body, and how interventions that enable adults to reclaim their lives must address the relationship between our emotional well-being and our bodies. | Brené Brown | ||
| c87ea28 | We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I hear birds in the morning when everyone's sleeping, I hear trees rustling when no one's around. | Nick Flynn | ||
| 3610317 | I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again. | loss life-lessons life getting-fired job-losses losing-hope losing-self employment careers learning-from-mistakes mistake self-worth mistakes failure human-nature | Gillian Flynn | |
| 21d435d | What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do? | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ba9346b | All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine. | love gone-girl | Gillian Flynn | |
| 3673e92 | Time is the school in which we learn. | Joan Didion | ||
| e37929a | We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings." | happiness love health children luck | Joan Didion | |
| d748616 | After that he would leave for a while, breaking things as he went, slamming doors to kick them open, picking up decanters to hurl at mirrors, detouring by way of chairs to smash them against the floor. Always when he came back he would sleep in their room, shutting the door against her. Rigid with self-pity she would lie in another room, wishing for the will to leave. Each believed the other a murderer of time, a destroyer of life itself. | Joan Didion | ||
| e9e3bb2 | Why do we like these stories so? Why do we tell them over and over? Why have we made a folk hero of a man who is the antithesis of all our official heroes, a haunted millionaire out of the West, trailing a legend of desperation and power and white sneakers? But then we have always done that. Our favorite people and our favorite stories become so not by any inherent virtue, but because they illustrate something deep in the grain, something u.. | howard-hughes joan-didion | Joan Didion | |
| 191b487 | When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children. | mortality | Joan Didion | |
| 342a841 | Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known. | depression anxiety alcoholism | Joan Didion | |
| 132f4f6 | It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody? | eccentric southern | Joan Didion | |
| 6b85892 | The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago... | memories death preparation parents | Joan Didion | |
| 34e6e71 | I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future. | opportunity future hope new-life | Joan Didion | |
| 7c272ae | Ht~ lwqy'` qd l tqwl lHqyq@ dy'man. | Paul Auster | ||
| c743b2d | He is twenty-eight years old, and to the best of his knowledge he has no ambitions. No burning ambitions, in any case, no clear idea of what building a plausible future might entail for him. | Paul Auster | ||
| 368b048 | Yo habia saltado desde el borde del acantilado y justo cuando estaba a punto de dar contra el fondo, ocurrio un hecho extraordinario: me entere que habia gente que me queria. Que le quieran a uno de ese modo lo cambia todo. No disminuye el terror de la caida, pero te da una nueva perspectiva de lo que significa ese terror. Yo habia saltado desde el borde y entonces, en el ultimo instante, algo me cogio en el aire. Ese algo es lo que defino .. | Paul Auster | ||
| 2733d15 | We all know that the way to get something done is to give it to a busy person. | Robert D. Putnam | ||
| 37a1105 | He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked t.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 5e74494 | Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me." | mast ship-building father-daughter ship | Alice Sebold | |
| 089b41e | Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn't calculate my steps. I didn't have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are. | Alice Sebold | ||
| c0dbeb2 | In the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway | Alice Sebold | ||
| 27dafa6 | This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything. | name-calling technology | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 57a6402 | The way to solve the conflict between human values and technological needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barrier of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is - not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both. When this transcendence occurs in such events as .. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 047af26 | To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after days of hard travel across the prairies would be to see them in another way, as a goal, a promised land. | Robert M. Pirsig |