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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 814ec16 | it is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 52ad9ec | The only answer that I give to you is doing it," he said. "A just request is to be met in silence, by the act." | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 3ff9dbb | He who best discerns the worth of time is most distressed whenever time is lost. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 04b92a4 | Soft as the early morning breeze of May, which heralds dawn, rich with the grass and flowers, spreading in waves their breathing fragrances, I felt a breeze strike soft upon my brow: I felt a wing caress it, I am sure, I sensed the sweetness of ambrosia. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 627117b | My son, you've seen the temporary fire and the eternal fire; you have reached the place past which my powers cannot see. I've brought you here through intellect and art; from now on, let your pleasure be your guide; you're past the steep and past the narrow paths. Look at the sun that shines upon your brow; look at the grasses, flowers, and the shrubs born here, spontaneously, of the earth. Among them, you can rest or walk until the comin.. | freedom virgil weeping | Dante Alighieri | |
| 35e4aa9 | Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understanding can follow only from total experience, and experience must be won by the laborious discipline of shaping one's absolute attention. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| f757c78 | Some things defy language itself. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 86d51be | He Looked down at her gravely. "In many ways, we are the most perfect match. We see each other as we are, but neither of us views the other as broken." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 4b02406 | This must be love, she murmured, in between sips of water. What's that? He sat behind her, cradling her in his arms. You held my hair, Professor. You must love me. He reached a tentative hand to her lower abdomen. I seem to recall you looking after me once, when I was sick. And that was before you loved me. I always loved you, Gabriel. Thank you. He kissed her forehead. We made this little one together. You aren't going to scare me off wit.. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 80ac4b1 | There's no one here but us. And what I see is Breathtaking | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 7180295 | Gabriel was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the desires of those around him. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 9df5d56 | Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| f5bad6a | Bebeorh the done bealo-nid, Beowulf leofa, secg betsta, ond the thaet selre geceos, ece raedas; ofer-hyda ne gym, maere cempa! Nu is thines maegnes blaed ane hwile; eft sona bid thaet thec adl odde ecg eafothes getwaefed, odde fyres feng odde flodes wylm odde gripe meces odde gares fliht odde atol yldo, odde eagena bearhtm forsited ond forsworced; semninga bid, thaet dec, dryht-guma, dead oferswyded. O flower of warriors, beware of that tra.. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| d109529 | No more twist! | Beatrix Potter | ||
| cefb4bf | the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 56e2147 | I am still jealous that Phoebe's mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 7161525 | What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked? (p 153) | time | Sharon Creech | |
| af02aff | Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| b7112bd | She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality." | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 314de14 | I'll fail." "At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life." | failing | Ned Vizzini | |
| 32aef58 | My one friend is a screwup--a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn't even know it. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| d75716d | 'nt lst sw~ m tfkr fyh. w'Hsysk hy `bd l'fkrk, w'nt `bd l`wTfk. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 501170e | She thought she knew much, but she knew nothing. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e494384 | In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1393630 | My friend Bob, who is both a student of Yoga and a neuroscientist, told me that he was always agitated by this idea of the chakras, that he wanted to actually see them in a dissected human body in order to believe they existed. But after a particularly transcendent meditative experience, he came away with a new understanding of it. He said,'Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human bein.. | inspirational | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4df1415 | rwm l ttnfs m` 'Hd .rwm ttfrj `l~ lhrj wlmrj mn dwn 'yW t'thWr , wk'nh tqwl : mhm f`ltm , 'bq~ 'n rwm . | novel rome | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 2960449 | Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 64043b4 | mn sh'n lsjwd 'n ySbH brdan wyGrq fy lmll lm'lwf n trkt ntbhk ysht `nh . wlkn n HfZt `l~ trkyzk , fnk ttHml bdhlk msw'wly@ lHfZ `l~ rwHk | prostration novel soul | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 9d5625f | In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work ... | god | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| dcf91d2 | But the Greeks and the Romans both believed in the idea of an external daemon of creativity--a sort of house elf, if you will, who lived within the walls of your home and who sometimes aided you in your labors. The Romans had a specific term for that helpful house elf. They called it your genius--your guardian deity, the conduit of your inspiration. Which is to say, the Romans didn't believe that an exceptionally gifted person was a genius;.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e19a1f1 | Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e921eb8 | lsh`wr bldhnb lys sw~ khd`h mn l'n lj`lk t`tqdyna bi'nki tuHrzyna tqdman 'khlqyan ,l tq`y fy hdh lfkh y`zyzty | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 54ffd66 | Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2415e49 | Because without that source of wonder, I know that I am doomed. Without it, I will forever wander the world in a state of bottomless dissatisfaction--nothing but a howling ghost, trapped in a body made of slowly deteriorating meat. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9dbfccc | This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions. | women life exhaustion | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 9a5fca1 | How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they can always lean on during a metaphysical crisis, or a moment of doubt about their relevancy - If I have done nothing else in this life, then at least I have raised my children well. But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and continui.. | elizabeth-gilbert virginia-woolf memoir | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 499a429 | She felt simultaneously relieved and burdened: relieved of all her old questions; burdened by the answers. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 127b3fe | Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 834d991 | Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 01f151e | If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cee7130 | Forever was never as long as you thought it was. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| be6e0d3 | Each time a goal is attained, it merely breeds additional needs. Thus more scurrying, more seeking, ad infinitum. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 676d54c | As a general rule, the less one's sense of life fulfillment, the greater one's death anxiety. | life fulfillment general sense | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| a01da16 | Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally. | Irvin D. Yalom |