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| 7aa01c7 | I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen o' fortune should; then, by thunder, you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like that boy, now; I never seen a better boy than that. He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him--that's what I say, and you may lay to it. | long-john-silver treasure-island pirates | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| df3b521 | It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound togetherthat in the agonised womb of consciousness these polar twins should be continuously struggling. How then were they dissociated | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| fb27fbc | I have lost confidence in myself. | faith confidence lost-faith lost-my-way | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 562d95f | In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| d214904 | That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred. | hatred hate dr-jekyll dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde horor devil hell | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 3ca9eba | And I learned that are troubles Of more than one kind Some come from ahead And some come from behind. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| f11bc8b | As she wove in and out of all the people - rushing, talking, eating, laughing; some in clumps, some alone - she realized that no one, no one at all in the airport, or on the entire planet for that matter, knew her thoughts, knew what she was carrying inside her head and heart. And at that very minute, what was inside her head and heart made her feel as though there was no one else in the whole world she would rather be. | Kevin Henkes | ||
| 1280b19 | Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow? | Kevin Henkes | ||
| 8fc7bdb | What bothers me today is the lack of, well, I guess you'd call it authentic experience. So much is a sham. So much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized. You know, less than half a century ago there were sixty-three varieties of lettuce in California alone. Today, there are four. And they are not the four best lettuces, either; not the most tasty or nutritious. They are the hybrid lettuces with built-in shelf life, the on.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a635abb | She did know that once tattooed one could no longer expect to lie for all eternity in an orthodox Jewish cemetery. They wouldn't even bury women with pierced ears. A strange theory of mutilation from the people who invented cutting the skin off the pee-pee. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 262c205 | 1) When a situation has become too frustrating, a quandary too persistently insolvable; when dealing with the issue is generating chronic discontent, infringing on freedom, and inhibiting growth, it may be time to quit beating one's head against the wall, reach for a big fat stick of metaphoric dynamite, light the fuse, and blast the whole unhappy business nine miles past oblivion. (2) After making an extreme effort, after pulling out all t.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a3c391a | almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 50c68cb | Nature is not infallible. Nature makes mistakes. That's what evolution is all about: growth by trail and error. Nature can be stupid and cruel. Oh, my, how cruel! That's okay. There's nothing wrong with Nature being dumb and ugly because it is simultaneously--paradoxically--brilliant and superb. But to worship the natural at the exclusion of the unnatural is to practice Organic Fascism--which is what many of my pilgrims practice. And in the.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| d752222 | If a girl wants to grow up to be a cowgirl, she ought to be able to do it, or else this world ain't worth living in. | dreams | Tom Robbins | |
| 4e130a9 | Existence can be rearranged. A man can be many things. I am special and free. And the world is round round round. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 8b39223 | The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. | life thought-provoking | Tom Robbins | |
| faffee7 | For all the ugly vices that capitalism encourages, it's at least interesting, exciting, it offers possiblities. In America, the struggle is at least an individual struggle. And if the individual has strength enough of character, salt enough of wit, the alternatives are thicker than polyesters in a car salesman's closet. In a socialistic system, you're no better or no worse than anybody else.' But that's equality!' | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3524974 | Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history. The masses had been desensitized to it, the intelligentsia regarded it with suspicion. To most of her peers, 'beauty' smacked of the rarefied, the indulgent, the superfluous, the effete. How could persons of good conscience pursue the beautiful when there was so much suffering and injustice in the world? Ellen Cherry's answer was that if on.. | beauty social-injustice ugliness | Tom Robbins | |
| 1c0bd2a | White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre wi.. | fear music new-orleans white race-relations guns power | Tom Robbins | |
| ddcf51c | What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 380f181 | All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. | irony humor philosophy self-pity pity psychology sarcasm | Tom Robbins | |
| 4c7bd6c | A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3d167c3 | Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from India. Mongooses would kill the rats. It worked. Mongooses did kill the rats. Mongooses also killed chickens, young pigs, birds, cats, dogs, and small children. There have been reports of mongooses attacking motorbikes, power lawn mowers, golf carts, and James Michener. in Hawaii now, there are as many mongooses as there once were rats. Hawaii.. | injustice mongooses hawaii rodents justice crime | Tom Robbins | |
| d24b273 | Take now the clockworks... The clockworks, being genuine and not much to look at, don't generate the drama of an Earth-tilt or a flying saucer, nor do they seem to offer any immediate panacea for humanity's fifty-seven varieties of heartburn. But suppose that you're one of those persons who feels trapped, to some degree, trapped matrimonially, occupationally, eductionally or geographically, or trapped in something larger than all those; tra.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| de546c6 | There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires. | Harry G. Frankfurt | ||
| 5319b5d | As a matter of fact, we are wired for connection. It's in our biology. From the time we are born, we need connection to thrive emotionally, physically, spiritually, and intellectually. A decade ago, the idea that we're "wired for connection" might have been perceived as touchy-feely or New Age. Today, we know that the need for connection is more than a feeling or a hunch. It's hard science. Neuroscience, to be exact." | Brené Brown | ||
| d605550 | If I get to be me, I belong. If I have to be like you, I fit in. | Brené Brown | ||
| 287a172 | And often the result of daring greatly isn't a victory march as much as it is a quiet sense of freedom mixed with a little battle fatigue. | Brené Brown | ||
| 741e261 | How much we know ourselves is extremely important but how we treat ourselves is the most important. | Brené Brown | ||
| 23ff328 | Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope. | Brené Brown | ||
| 9cb173b | We don't want to be uncomfortable. We want a quick and dirty "how-to" list for happiness. I don't fit that bill. Never have. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to skip over the hard stuff, but it just doesn't work. We don't change, we don't grow, and we don't move forward without the work. If we really want to live a joyful, connected, and meaningful life, we must talk about things that get in the way." | Brené Brown | ||
| 532ad59 | Pain will subside only when we acknowledge it and care for it. Addressing it with love and compassion would take only a minuscule percentage of the energy it takes to fight it, but approaching pain head-on is terrifying. Most of us were not taught how to recognize pain, name it, and be with it. Our families and culture believed that the vulnerability that it takes to acknowledge pain was weakness, so we were taught anger, rage, and denial i.. | Brené Brown | ||
| c1733c6 | We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough--that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing. I was afraid to walk on that stage and show the audience my kitchen-table self--these people were too important, too successful, too famous. My kitchen-table self is too messy, too imperfect, too unp.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 2b146b5 | Oversharing? Not vulnerability; I call it floodlighting. ... A lot of times we share too much information as a way to protect us from vulnerability, and here's why. I'm scared to let you know that I just wrote this article and I'm under total fire for it and people are making fun of me and I'm feeling hurt -- the same thing that I told someone in an intimate conversation. So what I do is I floodlight you with it - I don't know you very wel.. | floodlighting self-fulfilling-prophecy oversharing vulnerability | Brené Brown | |
| a479899 | We put so much of our time and energy into making sure that we meet everyone's expectations and into caring about what other people think of us, that we are often left feeling angry, resentful and fearful. | Brené Brown | ||
| 37a7316 | I'm fast becoming the one who leaves things behind, | Nick Flynn | ||
| 5b5f39d | inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside. | Nick Flynn | ||
| 9495507 | I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f95879e | I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues. | Joan Didion | ||
| 6a57e41 | I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. | writing truth inspirational talent | Joan Didion | |
| db7a26f | Persons under the shock of genuine affliction are not only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and controlled they seemingly may be, no one can under such circumstances be normal. Their disturbed circulation makes them cold, their distress makes them unstrung, sleepless. | Joan Didion | ||
| bd56a20 | All I knew was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was. | Joan Didion | ||
| 7d5ad16 | I find many mass cards from the funerals of people whose faces I no longer remember. In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see. | Joan Didion | ||
| de1ba6d | Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats. (1994) p. 99 | politics policy bureaucrats plato conservative corruption politics-of-the-united-states government process | Philip K. Howard |