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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d35b991 | kyf 'uHml nfsy mshq@ l`jb lwqw` shy' b`tbrh b`ydan `n ltSdyqm dmt 'lmsh wq`an ! nh mn lskhf 'n 'tsl dhhlan hl yumkn tSdyq hdh. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 01b30f9 | ljmy` shGwfwn bls`d@ w lknh klqmr lmHjwb wr sHb lsht | life | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 755d07f | l`l sr shqy'y 'nny 'bHth `n m`dl@ bl t'hyl `lmy. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| af1c09e | khyr lns 'Tybhm | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| e853b4f | ls`d@ l ystHqh l mn ynshdh mkhlSan | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 467dad9 | When we're in love, we may resent it, but we certainly miss love once it's gone. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 2e3f49b | w`sht l`mr bl Sdyq. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 01c9b4f | lHb wnshw@ lkhmr mn `Syr wHd yqTr f~ Smym lrwH, whl lHb lmwfq l skr@ Twyl@ ?! fn ftn~ lHb byn ydyk fln yfwtn~ f~ lkhmr ! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| b10b602 | lmdh lm ykhlq llh lHy@ nshw@ khlS@ tdwm jylan fjylan ? lmdh l nfwz bls`d@ bl `n wl qnwT ? lmdh ykhtnq lHb f~ qlwbn, wlHbyb yGdw wyrwH `l~ mrm~ qbl@ mn ?! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 5ed6a36 | I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 08e8069 | Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay .. | Frances Mayes | ||
| 5bc6776 | There are countries in which the communal provision of housing, transport, education and health care is so inferior that inhabitants will naturally seek to escape involvement with the masses by barricading themselves behind solid walls. The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where 'ordinary' life fails to answer a median need for dignity or comfort. Then there are communities--far fewer in number and typically imbue.. | Alain De Botton | ||
| 17a2266 | Change is necessary and, deny it as we may, in the end change is always inevitable. | Frances Hardinge | ||
| ca2300d | Such terrifying powers we possess, but what a sorry lot of gods some men are. And the worst of it is not the cruelty but the arrogance, the sheer hubris of those who bring only violence and fear into the animal world, as if it needed any more of either. Their lives entail enough frights and tribulations without the modern fire-makers, now armed with perfected, inescapable weapons, traipsing along for more fun and thrills at their expense ev.. | Matthew Scully | ||
| 55fb700 | All must pay the debt of nature. | environmentalism nature | Annie Proulx | |
| d7fde0c | Wolfgang von Goethe:"A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days." | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| e17f6e2 | For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty." | mothers neglect old-age parents sentimentality | William S. Burroughs | |
| e54935d | A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself too. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| eb940a9 | So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts. | Epictetus | ||
| b6fd491 | God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. | inspirational serenity-prayer | Ryan Holiday | |
| f7668ad | The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself. | philosopher success | Epictetus | |
| 1daa787 | everyone who is interesting has a past | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 3fb0423 | We had some times, didn't we?' 'We did.' 'Never did build that Glass Castle.' 'No. But we had fun planning it. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 16063d7 | Dad kept telling me that he loved me, that he never would have let me drown, but you can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| eb6ccc6 | Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 42c671a | But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| c472bd0 | Often we cling to habits that aren't even comforting or satisfying, simply because we are unable to let go or explore new ways to do things. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| b79c88b | It is usually a mistake to believe that any opinion or situation is objectively good or bad, since everything depends on the perspective of the viewer. | Lama Surya Das | ||
| f9e5984 | Whether through the patterns left in snow, or geese honking in the dark, or through the brilliant wet leaf that hits your face the moment you are questioning your worth, the quiet teachers are everywhere, pointing us to the unlived portion of our lives. When we think we are in charge, the lessons dissolve as accidents or coincidence. But when we're humble enough to welcome the connections, the glass that breaks across the room is offering u.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 06f4401 | quiet pain that comes from not honoring what we know to be true, even if all we know to be true are the questions we are asking. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 2b87da7 | Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height. | love women | M.C. Beaton | |
| c06fc0f | Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've read the reviews so that we know what to think. We lose the confidence to perceive ourselves. We want to know the meaning of an experience before we have it. We become frightened of direct experience, and we will go to elaborate lengths to avoid it. | Michael Crichton | ||
| d91de10 | Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate. | Michael Crichton | ||
| be1f9ae | To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 5260ea3 | At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 220c590 | The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing. | faith michael-crichton quote | Michael Crichton | |
| 29bce37 | Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny? | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 2163a3e | This wavering paradox is a pillar of the outlaw stance. A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit-no matter how often he's reminded of it-that every day of his life takes him farther down a blind alley. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 314f71f | As your attorney I advise you to get the chiliburger. It's a hamburger with chili on it. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 480f08f | The only way to prepare for a trip like this, I felt, was to dress up like human peacocks and get crazy, then screech off across the desert and cover the story. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 0a29108 | Some book reviewer whose name I forget recently called me a 'vicious misanthrope' . . . or maybe it was a 'cynical misanthrope'. . . but either way, he (or she) was right; and what got me this way was . | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 63d7b8d | It is difficult for the ordinary voter to come to grips with the notion that a truly | politics war | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| ae2524b | My own acid-eating experience is limited in terms of total consumption, but widely varied as to company and circumstances ... and if I had a choice of repeating any one of the half dozen bouts I recall, I would choose one of those Hell's Angels parties in La Honda, complete with all the mad lighting, cops on the road, a Ron Boise sculpture looming out of the woods, and all the big speakers vibrating with Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man." It.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 48dac7d | It was necessary, we felt, to thoroughly terrify our opponents, so that even in hollow victory, they would learn to fear every sunrise ... | quotes-to-live-by | Hunter S. Thompson |