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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c9d3629 | It is only the people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. | inferiority inferiority-complex | T.H. White | |
| e2bc9da | We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them. | Ed Catmull | ||
| 680af7c | But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 327a1bc | deep down...she's a good woman...you should be proud of her." When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 0e91de3 | I hate you.' | funny perks perks-of-being-a-wallflower wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 95db484 | I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it won't change the fact that they are upset. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 0466b40 | And then he says something like this ... "I would die for you. But I won't live for you." Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 01a7986 | And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 12a9f3a | I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn't mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 159d52b | I don't want to be somebody's crush. If someone likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don't like, I'll tell them. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 77bb3ba | How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read." This made them laugh because they knew I meant it honest, not show-off. Then they told me their favorites, and we sat quiet." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 9bc97f6 | Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| bfdca2d | Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| c1ff6d6 | God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it." | providence | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 2294cf9 | I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 7c0dcf9 | Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one's profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one's impulses. Few can grasp the logical consequence that, instead, one should lead a life in which procrastination is good, as a naturalistic-risk-based form of decision making. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| ef50f78 | I feel anger and frustration when I think that one in ten Americans beyond the age of high school is on some kind of antidepressant, such as Prozac. Indeed, when you go through mood swings, you now have to justify why you are not on some medication. There may be a few good reasons to be on medication, in severely pathological cases, but my mood, my sadness, my bouts of anxiety, are a second source of intelligence--perhaps even the first sou.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 19d7c8c | Mathematics is principally a tool to meditate, rather than to compute. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| db99077 | Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 9fcb0d9 | the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| ee3f1c9 | Can I see your fangs again? Valerie asked Er.... Justin said, then spotted Anders and smiled with relief. Anders, buddy. Show your woman your fangs. Shy, Bricker? You? Anders asked dryly, moving forward again as Valerie glanced around to smile at him. Nah. I just don't want to show you up by letting her see how much bigger my fangs are than yours, Justin responded. Actually, I saw Ander's fangs at his house this afternoon and they're bigger.. | bricker valerie | Lynsay Sands | |
| b136f46 | Harpernus Stoyan, if you can't behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you're going to have to sit on the couch," Stephanie snapped, sounding for all the world like a stern schoolteacher." | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 2576bed | She nodded, but Tiny was still holding her arm, and he asked uncertainly, "Are you sure you want to do this, Beau? It sounds painful." "Not as painful as the turn," she said solemnly. "And I'd go through this and a lot more to keep you as my life mate." | tiny | Lynsay Sands | |
| 3deddf3 | As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much. | pathetic possibility perfect | Francine Pascal | |
| 705c652 | Oia de vez en cuando el sonido de las palabras, y notaba la diferencia. Porque las palabras que habia oido hasta entonces, hasta entonces lo supe, no tenian ningun sonido, no sonaban; se sentian; pero sin sonido, como las que se oyen durante los suenos. | sonido sueños | Juan Rulfo | |
| 8e1d4e2 | I don't even know how to thank you, Gavin. You've accepted me with every fragile weakness I have, loving me no less than a woman without faults. A woman without fears. Every look, touch, and kiss you've given without judgment of any kind. You've healed every exposed wound, old scar, and piece of pain I brought into this relationship without expecting anything in return. You've shown me what a racing heart feels like, shown me mere thoughts .. | gavin-blake pulse | Gail McHugh | |
| cacae4c | In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great's expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay in the Sahel or powerful Great Zimbabwe in the West Africa tablelands, bigger than the cresting Ottoman Empire, bigger than the Triple Alliance (as the Aztec empire is more precisely known), bigger by far than any European state, the Inka dominion extended over a staggering thirty-two degree.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| b384cd5 | I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| d034975 | Committing myself to the task of becoming fully human is saving my life now...to become fully human is something extra, a conscious choice that not everyone makes. Based on my limited wisdom and experience, there is more than one way to do this. If I were a Buddhist, I might do it by taking the bodhisattva vow, and if I were a Jew, I might do it by following Torah. Because I am a Christian, I do it by imitating Christ, although i will be th.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 2ac9940 | Can't is for pussies. | Allison Pearson | ||
| df1db13 | He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings. | matrimonio | Mervyn Peake | |
| 819ad6d | And the days move on and the names of the months change and the four seasons bury one another and it is spring again and yet again and the small streams that run over the rough sides of Gormenghast Mountain are big with rain while the days lengthen and summer sprawls across the countryside, sprawls in all the swathes of its green, with its gold and sticky head, with its slumber and the drone of doves and with its butterflies and its lizards.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 6454f92 | Mount and begone. The world awaits you. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| bd18fb3 | The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 1270c87 | In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with . | Brian Tracy | ||
| bd646ac | Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses | self-help | Brian Tracy | |
| babcede | i wanted to take your hand and run with you together toward ourselves down the street to your street i wanted to laugh aloud and skip the notes past the marquee advertising "women in love" past the record shop with "The Spirit In The Dark" past the smoke shop past the park and no parking today signs past the people watching me in my blue velvet and i don't remember what you wore but only that i didn't want anything to be wear.. | Nikki Giovanni Just A New York Poem | ||
| 25c4a4f | If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied | Nikki Giovanni | ||
| ca301ed | We live so much of our lives pushed forward by these "if only" thoughts, and yet the itch remains. The pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness." -- | Dan Harris | ||
| 3197e65 | Easy to exemplify my true feelings towards him | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 1124c52 | Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 3467530 | I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| f65f575 | Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d158ec1 | I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand. | Charlaine Harris |