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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc03cd4 | path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid- | John Barth | ||
| 7ca176c | When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them | Henry James | ||
| 429204a | London is on the whole the most possible form of life. | life metropolis city-life london | Henry James | |
| e84a06f | Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. | Henry James | ||
| 2127b47 | Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it. | men relationships types tastes | Henry James | |
| 31d7a09 | I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart. I think I was then imagining that the net effect of becoming one of those people would be one of accretion. Whereas if you truly become someone on whom nothing is lost, then loss will not be lost upon you, either. | Maggie Nelson | ||
| 931868b | It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent. You can draw up a tremendous list of reasons why it should be insupportable. The fogs, the smoke, the dirt, the darkness, the wet, the distances, the ugliness, the brutal size of the place, the horrible numerosity of society, the manner in which this senseless bignes.. | life metropolis city-life london | Henry James | |
| 38628c0 | It is enough to say that her perception of the endless interest of the place was such as might have been expected in a young woman of her intelligence and culture. She had always been fond of history, and here was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine. She had an imagination that kindled at the mention of great deeds, and wherever she turned some great deed had been acted. These things excited her but they had be.. | Henry James | ||
| 8897bf4 | Her face was not young, but it was simple; it was not fresh, but it was mild. She had large eyes which were not bright, and a great deal of hair which was not 'dressed,' and long fine hands which were--possibly--not clean. | con-man-s-mark manipulation-of-perception victim | Henry James | |
| 374db82 | One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning. | Mark Helprin | ||
| c3a036d | The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 2ac0297 | I am leaving this tower and returning home. When I speak with family, and comments are always the same, 'Won't you be glad to get back to the real world?' This is my question after two weeks of time, only two weeks, spent with prairie dogs, 'What is real?' What is real? These prairie dogs and the lives they live and have adapted to in grassland communities over time, deep time? What is real? A gravel pit adjacent to one of the last remainin.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 02c3a90 | We know the quality of another's heart through her voice. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 8510304 | Members of the Coyote Clan are not easily identified, but there are clues. You can see it in their eyes. They are joyful and they are fierce. They can cry louder and laugh harder than anyone on the planet. And they have an enormous range. The Coyote Clan is a raucous bunch: they have drunk from desert potholes and belched forth toads. They tell stories with such virtuosity that you'll swear you've been in the presence of preachers. The Coyo.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| c51870f | The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he said was, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" "Come, we shall have some fun now!", thought Alice. "I'm glad they've begun asking riddles - I believe I can guess that," she added aloud. "Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare. "Exactly so," said Alice. "Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastil.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 1dc6aeb | I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| ab692f8 | burning with curiosity | Lewis Carroll | ||
| fca6e56 | Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere. | fiction white-queen bunny | Lewis Carroll | |
| d8d1f4d | She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; | motivation relatable | Lewis Carroll | |
| 2aa730d | And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! | madness time | Lewis Carroll | |
| 743cbdc | How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| a1d467d | You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199" | Lewis Carroll | ||
| b0dc736 | Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 1140c28 | Where is God when it hurts? We know one answer because God came to earth and showed us. You need only follow Jesus around and note how he responded to the tragedies of his day: large-scale tragedies such as an act of government terrorism in the temple or a tower collapsing on eighteen innocent bystanders; as well as small tragedies, such as a widow who has lost her only son or even a Roman soldier whose servant has fallen ill. At moments li.. | doubt compassion faith | Philip Yancey | |
| d09b69f | Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result we are involuntarily thrown together with a menagerie of strange and unlike people. Church calls for another step: to voluntarily choose to band together with a strange menagerie because of a common bond in Jesus Christ. I have found that such a community more resembles a family than any other human institution. Henri Nouwen once defi.. | faith family church | Philip Yancey | |
| dcb3d32 | C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 170fce4 | As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can "handle" my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing." | rage prayer psalm healing | Philip Yancey | |
| 2278906 | We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 2ec291e | On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 6ed1d4d | I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do -- Edward Everett Hale | Amy Harmon | ||
| 786fa72 | Baptists: I'm a pious guy, but even I have my limits. I draw the line right around spending 8 hours in church every Sunday. Church should be a solemn 45 minutes to sit quietly and feel guilty, with donuts at the end to make you feel better. I don't go in for a full day of singing and dancing and rejoicing, no matter how nice the hats are. I prefer my Gospel monotonously droned to me from a pulpit, thank you very much. | religion | Stephen Colbert | |
| 93f2161 | Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don't just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That's desertion. | Stephen Colbert | ||
| c10a140 | We talk about the shiny little nothings we see - people and cars and cathedrals, even la Tour Eiffel - but it's not that we don't have anything meaningful to say. The feeling is that we have everything to say. And where do you begin with everything? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 49e8236 | And even though he doesn't mean it like I-want-to-leave-my-girlfriend-and-start-dating-you cute, something flickers inside of me. The "force of strength and destruction" Tita de la Garza knew so well." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 403c9f5 | I thought I did." Josh stares out over the city. "And then I knew I didn't, and she knew she didn't, but we stayed together, because...I don't know why. Maybe because we thought we should be in love. At least I did. I wanted to be in love." He looks back at me. "Have you ever been in love?" | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 32d91b7 | Porque tenia razon. Para nosotros dos, casa no es un lugar. Es una persona. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 3c68e05 | Thr rareness, the specialness, of North. Of this night. She wished it could last forever. (It's a yuletide miracle, Charlie Brown) | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 9fa24a8 | Don't be a chickenshit. Tell him how you feel." "What if he doesn't love me?" "He does." "What if he doesn't?" "Ugh, then who cares? You won't lose anything you haven't already lost." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 70e2384 | Mis botas de combate con plataformas abren el camino. Y mantengo mi cabeza en alto hacia mi gran entrada, de la mano del chico que me dio la luna y las estrellas. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 770b0cb | His eyes follow me everywhere, and we keep sharing smiles that feel like secrets.(Kiersten White) | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 054c45e | I'll only say this once more. I like you. I've always liked you. It would be wrong for me to come back into your life and act otherwise. | lola-nolan | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 2860a02 | You'll come home soon?" I ask. The question makes him smile. "Promise you won't forget me while I'm gone?" I smile back. "I promise." And as I walk away, I realize that I have no idea how I'll manage to stop thinking about him." | stephanie-perkins | stephanie perkins | |
| 90b4f9e | If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position... to make all the difference in the world. | James Redfield | ||
| 3add49c | My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest. | sleep cure-for-boredom boredom restlessness | Robert M. Pirsig |