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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 83b5226 | So you want to die honorably? You are being selfish. Each and every person you killed had his own life. Whether that life was blessed or not ... everyone is born into this world ... they grow up ... some people have family ... some are alone in this world ... some have young children ... some are engaged ... some have pets ...some people have high hopes and great dreams ... other have no ambition at all and you ended everything for them Tak.. | Takehiko Inoue | ||
| 9f499e8 | The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does. | humility | John C. Maxwell | |
| a93de05 | People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| b1283ed | Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don't gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 93e3dd6 | Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." --Carl Jung" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| aa9aac2 | losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine, beyond sorrow's own joys and hoping's very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars | E.E. Cummings | ||
| b3b2a15 | Me up at does out of the floor quietly Stare a poisoned mouse still who alive is asking What | E.E. Cummings | ||
| c451667 | up into the the silence the green silence with a white earth in it you will (kiss me)go out into the morning the young morning with a warm world in it (kiss me)you will go on into the sunlight the fine sunlight with a firm day in it you will go(kiss me down into your memory and | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 95eff09 | You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives" (Genesis 50:20)." | Beth Moore | ||
| 751706a | Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother. | Beth Moore | ||
| 0376758 | God is who He says He is. God can do what He says He can do. I am who God says I am. I can do all things through Christ. God's Word is alive and active in me. | Beth Moore | ||
| d76894f | He fell ass over tea Kettle | C.E. Murphy | ||
| 6470214 | They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it." | C.E. Murphy | ||
| 625c102 | But can I really will anything? At this moment I feel the pleasure of being stone, the sun warms me, the wind makes acceptable this adjustment of my body, I have no intention of ceasing to be a stone. Why? Because I like it. So then I too am slave to a passion, which advises me against wanting freely its opposite. However, willing, I could will. And yet I do not. How much freer am I than a stone? | Umberto Eco | ||
| 056b0da | It's hopeless," he went on. "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!" "We are dwarfs," William admitted, "but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they." | ancient-learning hope knowledge | Umberto Eco | |
| 4693a6b | The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell? | destiny devil fate responsibility self-deception | Umberto Eco | |
| 61bc21b | In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. | fire imagination middle-ages obviousness writing | Umberto Eco | |
| 9de9c71 | What does the philosopher say? Odi ergo sum. I hate therefore I am. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 1c7fd6a | lsdhj dwb tusq l~ lmjzr@, yust`mlwn `ndm yrd wD` slT@ lkhSm fy 'zm@, w yuDH~ bhm `ndm tnthy lHj@ lyhm. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 8b3c370 | I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 6504f76 | For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has c.. | exclusion leprosy poverty | Umberto Eco | |
| e4b44be | Los perdedores, como los autodidactas, tienen siempre conocimientos mas vastos que los ganadores. Si quieres ganar tienes que saber una cosa sola y no perder tiempo en sabertelas todas; el placer de la erudicion esta reservado a los perdedores. Cuanto mas sabe uno, es que peor le han ido las cosas. | Umberto Eco | ||
| d6f9926 | I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 0539d43 | To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. | Peter Abrahams | ||
| 89609d2 | I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs. | Miranda July | ||
| cd33b16 | I felt like I could do this forever, because nothing mattered more than anything else. | Miranda July | ||
| 5ae54c8 | My eyes fell on the gray linoleum floor and I wondered how many other women had sat on this toilet and stared at this floor. Each of them the center of their own world, all of them yearning for someone to put their love into so they could see their love, see that they had it. | Miranda July | ||
| c8432ab | That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea, I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest. Or if I'm in a hot tub with some other people and we're all looking up at the stars, I'll be the first to say, It's so beautiful here. The sooner you say, It's so beautiful here, the quicker .. | Miranda July | ||
| 1d06c3b | Like a rich person, I live with a full-time servant who keeps everything in order--and because the servant is me, there's no invasion of privacy. | Miranda July | ||
| f391bef | Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them. | friendship | Miranda July | |
| c2535fe | Elizabeth breathed. "For what? Rheumatism? Retinue? Richard the Third?" The planchette continued to move, torward the . "Romantic? It's going to tell us our husband's name! Or else...rotund." She paused. "Is it calling us fat?" "Someone's going to have a row?" | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 4e0ac2e | The sky was as blue and delicate as a porcelain teacup, and the hills rolled gently in all directions, intersected occasionally with the silver ribbon of a river. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 8592643 | I pulled open my window and leaned out. "Are you daft?" I whispered loudly. He bowed extravagantly, deeply, his dark tousled hair falling over his brow. "Such poetry, my lady." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 4bf258b | Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man. | love man sex woman | Donna Woolfolk Cross | |
| 2349821 | their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks. | war | John Hersey | |
| 45bd8a2 | With the best of intentions, the generation before mine worked diligently to prepare their children to make an intelligent case for Christianity. We were constantly reminded of the superiority of our own worldview and the shortcomings of all others. We learned that as Christians, we alone had access to absolute truth and could win any argument. The appropriate Bible verses were picked out for us, the opposing positions summarized for us, an.. | Rachel Held Evans | ||
| f6d137c | I spit upon your God! | pincher-martin | William Golding | |
| a197b7c | We bring Kingsley comfort, by being here, but only one visitor has brought him any pleasure: Jaime. He enjoyed, he exulted in Jaime - because the dew is yet on him, the glamour is yet on him. Jaime brought his youth, in all its Conradian force (youth, that 'mighty power'). I haven't got any youth to offer my father. This year has closed my youth. I'm sorry, Dad: I haven't got any . . . Sometimes I imagine that the dead are allowed to watch .. | Martin Amis | ||
| a687392 | Rich and famous and doing good," mused Schlichtmann. "Rich isn't so difficult. Famous isn't so difficult. Rich and famous together aren't so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good--now, that's very difficult." -- | good rich wealth | Jonathan Harr | |
| 7b131dd | Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after. | Hesiod | ||
| 0cace76 | we who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group to devise ways to keep you in perpetual uncertainty frustration discontent and torture by neither loving you as much as you want nor cutting you adrift your analyst is in on it plus your boyfriend and your ex-husband and we have pledged to disappoint you as long as you need us in announcing our association we realize we hav.. | Phillip Lopate | ||
| b6002e1 | Furthermore, unlike many other great predators of history, from Genghis Khan to the Spanish conquistadors, King Leopold II never saw a drop of blood spilled in anger. He never set foot in the Congo. There is something very modern about that, too, as there is about the bomber pilot in the stratosphere, above the clouds, who never hears screams or sees shattered homes or torn flesh. | Adam Hochschild | ||
| 465f4f9 | Despite a 50 percent divorce rate for first marriages and 65 percent the second time around; despite the staggering frequency of affairs; despite the fact that monogamy is a ship sinking faster than anyone can bail it out, we continue to cling to the wreckage with absolute faith in its structural soundness. | Esther Perel | ||
| 6d45599 | The more we trust, the farther we are able to venture. | Esther Perel |