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| 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 guns music new-orleans power race-relations white | 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. | humor irony philosophy pity psychology sarcasm self-pity | 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.. | crime hawaii injustice justice mongooses rodents | 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 oversharing self-fulfilling-prophecy 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 | ||
| e6dcc0d | I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| e366cf3 | take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool... | thought | Jonathan Swift | |
| 2e23127 | High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, And there were little hounds about her feet; Below her feet there was a sickle moon, Waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, Her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; Her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode Down to where Pluto has his dark abode. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 7b3a082 | In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 2d35032 | That is what capitalism is--a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains. And so we still hand over our lives' labor, under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 6e2aaed | To a very great extent human history has been the story of the unequal accumulation of harvested wealth, shifting from one centre of power to another, while always expanding the four great inequalities. This is history. Nowhere, as far as I know, has there ever been a civilization or moment when the wealth of the harvests, created by all, has been equitably distributed. Power has been exerted wherever it can be, and each successful coercion.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 666b7af | Susan, nonetheless, wanted to know why she was having such a dating problem. Dusty said, "I think your problem is that you think everyone else is a freak except you, but everybody's a freak- you included- and once you learn that, the World of Dating is yours." | Douglas Coupland | ||
| fa7cca5 | You will see the effects of dark secrets making themselves known-- via their minds and bodies and via the stories your friends...will begin telling you...The only payback for all of this-- for the conversion of their once-young hearts into tar--will be that you will love your friends more, even though they have made you see the universe as an emptier and scarier place... | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8fee767 | Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| a89c1a9 | Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 92badb7 | Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church... | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 02c0195 | Those upper classes, to rule, needed to make concessions to the middle class, without damage to their own wealth or power, at the expense of slaves, Indians, and poor whites. This bought loyalty. And to bind that loyalty with something more powerful even than material advantage, the ruling group found, in the 1760s and 1770s, a wonderfully useful device. That device was the language of liberty and equality, which could unite just enough whi.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| c8bc2f0 | The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 5abf9e7 | She glanced sideways at her companion, who had peeled off his outer layers of clothing to reveal the sweat-drenched shirt clinging to his body. They rounded a hedge, and Calaena rolled her eyes when she saw what waited on the path ahead. Every morning, more and more ladies found excuses to be walking through the gardens just after dawn. At first, it had just been a few young women who'd taken one look at Chaol and his sweaty, clingy clothe.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 6daebc5 | His answering smile evoked silken sheets and jasmine-scented breezes at midnight. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d7194ec | If she could keep breathing, she wouldn't fall apart. | celaena-sardothien | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d260842 | He had leapt from the cliff. He could only wait for the net. | throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 8dde984 | Flinging it out with his magic, his soul, his cracked heart. Searching for her. Fight it, he willed her, sending the words down the bond--the mating bond, which perhaps had settled into place that first moment they'd become carranam, hidden beneath flame and ice and hope for a better future. Fight her. I am coming for you. Even if it takes me a thousand years. I will find you, I will find you, I will find you. Only | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 97c3f1e | Supongo que si vamos a morir, mas vale que sea por una causa noble | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| dd294e7 | Some would say it's unwise to insult a Fae in his home," Tamlin ground out. "Some would say you should be grateful for me finding you before another one of my kind came to claim the debt, for sparing your life and then offering you the chance to live in comfort." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f664d41 | You were always too good for here Feyre. Too good for us, too good for everyone.' He squeezed my hand. 'If you ever escape, ever convince them that you've paid the debt, don't return. | Sarah J. Maas |