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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1e27f1c | In George Bernard Shaw's words, 'The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 6d140df | The way I see it," she began, "your mother's devoted her whole life to you kids." She said "you kids" in precisely the same tone I would have used for "you infestation of cockroaches" | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 5171326 | For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 9cd2eeb | Say your truth--kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| ba0e6a5 | A CELEBRATION OF WEIRD Don't become a spiritual zombie, devoid of passion and deep human feeling. Let spirituality become a celebration of your uniqueness rather than a repression of it. Never lose your quirkiness, your strangeness, your weirdness - your unique and irreplaceable flavour. Don't try or pretend to be 'no-one' or 'nothing' or some transcendent and impersonal non-entity with 'no self' or 'no ego', 'beyond the human' - that's jus.. | Jeff Foster | ||
| 35f52b4 | A man who declares his heart too early will leave you wondering whether he truly meant it." ~Catriona" | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| fa71272 | As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so long as one never loses faith, it is impossible to ever truly be alone. | David Baldacci | ||
| 2469624 | Anyone who's lived has lost somebody. | David Baldacci | ||
| 0b099b6 | Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still a Brooklynite." "I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie." "You don't mean that, Carl." "Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie." "Why?" "When in Rome do as the Romans do." "Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly. "This is the silliest conversation..." | betty-smith humor joy-in-the-morning marriage | Betty Smith | |
| 7f113e9 | the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from anyone else in the two families. It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike. | Betty Smith | ||
| c1b1c88 | No, Katie never fumbled. When she used her beautifully shaped but worn-looking hands, she used them with surety, whether it was to put a broken flower into a tumbler of water with one true gesture, or to wring out a scrub cloth with one decisive motion--the right hand turning in, and the left out, simultaneously. When she spoke, she spoke truly with the plain right words. And her thoughts walked in a clear uncompromising line. | Betty Smith | ||
| b3cd3ae | It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that. | Betty Smith | ||
| d8db4de | She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life. | motherhood pregnancy | Betty Smith | |
| 5e5026f | A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining. | Gertrude Stein | ||
| 9367691 | There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen. | languedoc-trilogy sepulchre | Kate Mosse | |
| 20cd545 | Remember why the Sith are more powerful than the Jedi, Sidious: because we are not afraid to feel. We embrace the spectrum of emotions, from the heights of transcendent joy to the depths of hatred and despair. Fearless, we welcome whatever paths the dark side sets us on, and whatever destiny it lays out for us. | James Luceno | ||
| 53bc864 | Tarkin smiled. "Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities." | James Luceno | ||
| 7dd3b38 | Don't mix your heart with your liver. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| fdd6fa8 | Six books... my mother didn't want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books - that I put myself inside them for safe keeping. | reading | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 8e38c3a | I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a07c838 | The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 96f2176 | To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to involve another person is harder still. Communication between you and me relies on assumptions, associations, commonalities and a kind of agreed shorthand, which no-one could precisely define but which everyone would admit exists. That is one reason why it is an effort to have a proper conversation in a foreign language... | words | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 55405c7 | Happiness was still on the other side of a glass door, but at least she could see it through the glass, like a prisoner being visited by a longed-for loved one. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d0fcce7 | I knew clearly that I could not rebuild my life or put it back together in any way. I had no idea what might lie on the other side of this place. I only knew that the before-world was gone forever. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| cc80ec1 | i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d4d3165 | So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn't be read in school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful.. | finding-meaning healing inspiration literature philosophy poetry reading solace tough-life | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 7acabda | The fatal combination of indulgence without feeling disgusts me. Strange to be both greedy and dead. For myself, I prefer to hold my desires just out of reach of appetite, to keep myself honed and sharp. I want the keen edge of longing. it is so easy to be a brute and yet it has become rather fashionable. Is that the consequence of leaving your body to science? Of assuming that another pill, another drug, another car, another pocket-sized h.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 3f0d57d | She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 46c6c91 | I am civilised. My feelings are not. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 9a7ff65 | I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 04f4d9c | She said she'd often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some things, but for others, there was no reason there. She'd spent a long time puzzling it out, then she thought that what you'd done in a past life you didn't need to do again, and what you had to do in the future, you wouldn't be ready to do now. | lesbian life reincarnation | Jeanette Winterson | |
| f4b79af | Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it?" (205)" | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 70ef7f1 | Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked they do not evaporate and leave the mind to its serener musings. Once asked they gain dimension and texture, trip you on the stairs, wake you at night-time. A black hole sucks up its surroundings and even light never escapes. Better then to ask no questions? Better then to be a contented pig than an unhappy .. | philosophy questions | Jeanette Winterson | |
| f390603 | The healing power of art is not a rhetorical fantasy. Fighting to keep language, language became my sanity and my strength. It still is, and I know of no pain that art cannot assuage. For some, music, for some, pictures, for me, primarily, poetry, whether found in poems or in prose, cuts through noise and hurt, opens the wound to clean it, and then gradually teaches it to heal itself. Wounds need to be taught to heal themselves. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6622c1c | There's an old Northlands saying that goes like this: When lies don't help. try telling the truth. Loki knew it well, of course, but preferred his own version, which was: When lies don't help, tell better lies. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 1dce3bb | People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you. | Joanne Harris | ||
| b3afb09 | Knowledge is currency here.... | knowledge small-town village | Joanne Harris | |
| 73f3daa | This is something different again. A feeling of peace. The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right, a perfectly risen souffle, a flawless sauce hollandaise. It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her. | cooking love | Joanne Harris | |
| 5e732ab | Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can turn affection to hatred; can start a religion or even a war. Words are the shepherds of lies; they lead the best of us to the slaughter. | Joanne Harris | ||
| f4b5d9a | My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 935cfbc | My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of sweaters with my initials right in them. She could sit really still. She knew how to believe in God and sing really loudly. When she sneezed our whole house rocked. My father was a great smoker and driver of vehicles..He could hold a full coffee cup while driving and never spill a drop, even goi.. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 95645bf | Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. | Gary Chapman | ||
| e5096e2 | We speak and understand best our native language. We feel most comfortable speaking that language. The more we use a secondary language, the more comfortable we become conversing in it. If we speak only our primary language and encounter someone else who speaks only his or her primary language, which is different from ours, our communication will be limited. We must rely on pointing, grunting, drawing pictures, or acting out our ideas. We c.. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 8c616fe | Verbal compliments, or words of appreciation, are powerful communicators of love. | Gary Chapman |