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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c1cee97 | My soul is like a house, small for you to enter, but I pray you to enlarge it. It is in ruins, but I ask you to remake it. It contains much that you will not be pleased to see: this I know and do not hide. But who is to rid it of these things? There is no one but you | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| f13b90d | the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord. | theology | Augustine of Hippo | |
| 27adcac | This joy in God is not like any pleasure found in physical or intellectual satisfaction. Nor is it such as a friend experiences in the presence of a friend. But, if we are to use any such analogy, it is more like the eye rejoicing in light. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| a88e085 | You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things. | thoughts | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| 7018b50 | What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, "What is this?" Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you." | Saint Augustine of Hippo | ||
| ee3e375 | I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| a0402b4 | To what place can I invite you, then, since I am in you? Or where could you come from, in order to come into me? To what place outside heaven and earth could I travel, so that my God could come to me there, the God who said, ? | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| c622d81 | Men love jargon. It is so palpable, tangible, visible, audible; it makes so obvious what one has learned; it satisfies the craving for results. It is impressive for the uninitiated. It makes one feel that one belongs. Jargon divides men into Us and Them.... | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| 7191b20 | All girls should be treated with respect regardless of whether or not they're virgins. Being a virgin doesn't make me any more or less worthwhile than a non-virgin. | Penny Reid | ||
| 52239e0 | Listen to me for one fucking second, okay?" I also whispered, but only because he was whispering, "Only if you stop using the f-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it." "I'll fucking use whatever fucking word I want to fucking use whenever I fucking want to." | Penny Reid | ||
| 09f6fae | You're disgusting and that's completely misogynistic. What if the hook-up girl is using you just as much as you're using her? What if she's just having fun? This is the problem with society. When a guy sleeps around, he's sewing oats. When a girl does it, she's a hook-up girl. | Penny Reid | ||
| fc696f7 | Over the years I'd learned absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. The heart becomes wary, somnolent and cynical during periods of prolonged absence, burdened with cares and fears borne in solitude. However, absence does make the body greedy and irrationally amorous with frustrated need. | Penny Reid | ||
| 12beb46 | Don't Drink and DERIVE, Alcohol and Calculus Don't Mix | Penny Reid | ||
| 2c37ee3 | Dan was shorter than me, especially as I was wearing sky blue silk stilettos. He appeared to be my age or a few years older,stocky, and thick necked with swirling tattoos just visible beneath the blue collar of his uniform.Dan gave me a plain once over as he walked me to an elevator and placed his palm against a glass screen. The screen retracted to reveal keypad. Dan then punched in a series of numbers and he said- "You're very big."I gave.. | tall-girls vegetables-and-milk | Penny Reid | |
| 75e2ec4 | I wondered what steps I could take to remove the word 'moisture' or even 'moist' from the English language; I really hated the way it sounded and always went out of my way to avoid saying it. I also really didn't like the word slacks | Penny Reid | ||
| 9956ef0 | Me want Martin flavored cookie! Me want cookie now!! | Penny Reid | ||
| 6df4ac1 | Little did he know, I possessed no feminine wiles. Only the willies and the hibby jibbies. | Penny Reid | ||
| 0db7b19 | Life is a struggle for relevancy. | Penny Reid | ||
| 39cd49f | I'd kiss you but I don't want our beards to tangle. | Penny Reid | ||
| 700f7cf | It's seductive, to live in a virtual space, especially when the real world isn't what you want it to be. | Penny Reid | ||
| d5ec85a | As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on. | Karen Hesse | ||
| 0f1eabc | Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 2c929c5 | You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." --Jim Rohn" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| b5f58c5 | Leaders Who Attract Followers . . . Need to Be Needed Leaders Who Develop Leaders . . . Want to Be Succeeded | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 439dd88 | guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 53286fa | sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas | e.e. cummings | ||
| 6854e69 | let's start a magazine to hell with literature we want something redblooded lousy with pure reeking with stark and fearlessly obscene but really clean get what I mean let's not spoil it let's make it serious something authentic and delirious you know something genuine like a mark in a toilet graced with guts and gutted with grace | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 9fa8c4c | if i or anybody don't know where it her his my next meal's coming from i say to hell with that that doesn't matter (and if he she it or everybody gets a bellyful without lifting my finger i say to hell with that i say that doesn't matter) but if somebody or you are beautiful or deep or generous what i say is whistle that sing that yell that spell that out big (bigger than cosmic rays w ar earthquakes famine or the ex prin.. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| ecbc15a | i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) | E.E. Cummings | ||
| bd91108 | Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. | Beth Moore | ||
| 7ee983c | God's specialty is raising dead things to life and making impossible things possible. You don't have the need that exceeds His power. | Beth Moore | ||
| d8482c0 | We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences. | Beth Moore | ||
| 096f1af | Preacher: "This is the word of God!" Constantine: "The edited word of God" | Garth Ennis | ||
| 3688522 | Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text." | religion truth philosophy-of-religion theology | Umberto Eco | |
| bec07a3 | I stood back up and looked down at my feces. A lovely snail-shell architecture, still steaming. Borromini. My bowels must be in good shape, because everyone knows you have nothing to worry about unless your feces are to soft or downright liquid. I was seeing my shit for the first time (in the city you sit on the bowl, then flush right away, without looking). I was now calling it shit, which I think is what people call it. Shit is the most p.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 88ad9be | we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the actual world seems to be a more treacherous place. | Umberto Eco | ||
| cea0f51 | Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 1568467 | You're innocent, Casaubon. You ran away instead of throwing stones, you got your degree, you didn't shoot anybody. Yet a few years ago I felt you, too, were blackmailing me. Nothing personal, just generational cycles. And then last year, when I saw the Pendulum, I understood everything." "Everything?" "Almost everything. You see, Casaubon, even the Pendulum is a false prophet. You look at it, you think it's the only fixed point in the cosmo.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 45d33e0 | Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase. | science | Nella Larsen | |
| 0b9e4af | To each his own milieu. Enhance what was already in one's possession. | Nella Larsen | ||
| e19342f | He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more. | Miranda July | ||
| 752ef3b | When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many facts you will have to tackle with your imagination. It wasn't in the shape of a person, but right away I knew it was like a person in every way except for how it looked. As it turns out, our looks are not the main thing that makes us human. | Miranda July | ||
| 7697149 | If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would. | murder | Miranda July | |
| 8cc6e83 | Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost. | unfeeling nothingness | Miranda July |