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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ba1fc81 | her. "Love cleanses, beloved. It doesn't beat you down. It doesn't cast blame." He kissed her again, wishing he had the right words to say what he felt. Words would never be enough to show her what he meant. "My love isn't a weapon. It's a lifeline. Reach out and take hold, and don't let go." | Francine Rivers | ||
| d74685f | Every religion in the world is about man trying to reach up to God, like working your way up the ladder. They're all about striving to achieve something for yourself. Christianity is the only religion about God reaching down to man and offering salvation as a free gift, with the added bonus of a personal relationship with the Creator God through Jesus Christ, who was there in the beginning. | Francine Rivers | ||
| e72e3c2 | Though fallen low God raised her up An angel. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 94fcff2 | The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| a222152 | Your face, your mouth, your shoulder inconceivable to me now! Where did they go? It's like I dreamed them. The stones we brought home from the beach lie face up on the windowsill, cooling. Come home. Do you hear? | Raymond Carver | ||
| 9b3a71d | It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for. | compassion | George Eliot | |
| f10d4e9 | Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary. | passion seed | George Eliot | |
| fc267ac | It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. | George Eliot | ||
| 094fa6f | All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims, and that to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy. And the man of maxims is the popular representative of the minds that are guided in thei.. | George Eliot | ||
| a0546f8 | Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,-however it may come, these minds will give it a habitation; it is something to assert strongly and bravely, something to fill up the void of spontaneous ideas, something to impose on others with the authority of conscious right; it is at once a staff and a baton. | prejudice identity bourgeois-indulgence intellectual-laziness self-righteousness | George Eliot | |
| 887235a | He once called her his basil plant, and when she asked for an explanation said that basil was a plant which had flourished wonderfully on a murdered man's brains. | George Eliot | ||
| 49ee6ce | What right have such men to represent Christianity--as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly? | ministry mediocrity | George Eliot | |
| 7b603e1 | But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbors. We judge from our own desires, and our neighbors themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs. | George Eliot | ||
| fade7d1 | Certainly these men who had so few spontaneous ideas might be very useful members of society under good feminine direction, | George Eliot | ||
| 04c3af1 | You know I have duties--we both have duties--before which feeling must be sacrificed. | George Eliot | ||
| 91df033 | Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know? | George Eliot | ||
| 553da94 | the God of woman is autonomy | Alice Walker | ||
| 61adf68 | there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve. | Alice Walker | ||
| 6a4af28 | Oh, she say. God loves all them feelings. That's some of the best stuff God did. And when you know God loves 'em you enjoys 'em a lot more. You can just relax, go with everything that's going, and praise God by liking what you like. God don't think it dirty? I ast. Naw, she say. God made it. Listen, God love everything you love-- and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw.. | Alice Walker | ||
| 826377a | I can't fix my mouth to say how I feel. | Alice Walker | ||
| e79d2bb | Because whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is currently happening to humanity, it is happening to all of us. No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people. My illness proved that. As well as my understanding that Generose's lost daughter belongs to all of us. It is up to all of us to find her; it is up to us to do our best to make her whole again. The.. | Alice Walker | ||
| d9b227f | I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have. | Alice Walker | ||
| 989be84 | Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want. | Alice Walker | ||
| 58c5a8a | Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miser.. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 04b96d7 | Oh, God," Wilhelm prayed, "Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and into a different life. For I am all balled up. Have mercy." | sadness | Saul Bellow | |
| f3a9e7c | Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too. | Saul Bellow | ||
| f68aa3a | The addict's reliance on the drug to reawaken her dulled feelings is no adolescent caprice. The dullness is itself a consequence of an emotional malfunction not of her making: the internal shutdown of vulnerability. From the latin word vulnerare, 'to wound', vulnerability is our susceptibility to be wounded. This fragility is part of our nature and cannot be escaped. The best the brain can do is to shut down conscious awareness of it when .. | Gabor Maté | ||
| e2c2507 | I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another . That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken. | Saul Bellow | ||
| a8ce373 | It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon... | weapon | Chaim Potok | |
| 9bb4c11 | I fixed my eyes on the largest cloud, as if when it passed out of sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| dd71b39 | Doreen is dissolving, Lenny Shepherd is dissolving, Frankie is dissolving, New York is dissolving, they are all dissolving away and none of them matter anymore.I don't know them. I have never known them and I am very pure. | hot-bath the-bell-jar | sylvia plath | |
| 8597ab7 | I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 9aaa70e | A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money. | spirituality psychiatry psychology | Sylvia Plath | |
| 9d1e581 | Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible.. | blog depression writing blogger insomnia memoir bipolar-disorder recovery mental-health interview | Andy Behrman | |
| e418a37 | It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't see their beliefs, but I can see the things they love to do on earth. When you come right down to it, I do believe in the freedom of the individual... | Sylvia Plath | ||
| f7672da | Life has been a combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 79a76cf | I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 1d5a947 | Neurotic, ha!" I let out a scornful laugh. "If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days." | Sylvia Plath | ||
| f206968 | But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get. | the-bell-jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| 99438e1 | if a man chooses to be promiscuous, he may still turn up his nose at promiscuity. He may still demand a woman be faithful to him, to save him from his own lust. But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of soul,body and pride of man? | journals sylvia-plath | Sylvia Plath | |
| e797ed7 | I hate Technicolor. Everybody in a Technicolor movie seems to feel obliged to wear a lurid costume in each new scene and to stand around like a clotheshorse with a lot of very green trees or very yellow wheat or very blue ocean rolling away for miles and miles in every direction. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| a50dfd0 | Can nothingness be so prodigal? | Sylvia Plath | ||
| be74bc8 | All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years ago was a doubtful dream - and that fortuitous change of dream to reality has led me to desire more, and to lash myself onward - onward. | education | Sylvia Plath | |
| aac0f69 | I'm so jealous I can't speak. | Sylvia Plath |