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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2a6f320 | dh 'khfyt jhlk jydan .. ln yw'dhyk 'Hd, wlknk ln tt`lm 'yDan | learning | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9aaef57 | Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, quadruple the population. Films and radios, magazines, books levelled down to a sort of paste pudding norm, do you follow me? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 69ab960 | So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, with.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 4190a89 | And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written enough so that you are relaxed and can allow the truth to get out without being ruined by self-conscious posturings or changed by a desire to become rich? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a94dbe4 | Memories, as my father once said, are porcupines. To hell with them! Stay away from them! They make you unhappy. They ruin your work. They make you cry | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2a11a38 | Boy," said the old man at last, "in five years, how would you like a job selling shoes in this emporium?" "Gosh, thanks, Mr. Sanderson, but I don't know what I'm going to be yet." "Anything you want to be son," said the old man, "you'll be. No one will ever stop you." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ab61a95 | YOU CAN'T DEPEND ON PEOPLE BECAUSE... | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a582447 | The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school. That's why we've lowered the kindergarten age year after year until now we're almost snatching them from the cradle. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a82c5d9 | Vinagi s'm viarvala, che istinskata liubov e liubov mezhdu dva uma, makar che tialoto poniakoga otkazva da go priznae. | minds | Ray Bradbury | |
| 2ddf849 | And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 97b5231 | He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8793d48 | A lot will be lost that way, of course. But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 675669e | It's just...It's just, if I didn't see these windows until today, what else did I miss? | noticing-details | Ray Bradbury | |
| 41ab6ba | Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 4da0398 | If they give you lined paper, write the other way. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 78a8bfe | Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8fb4ab5 | A train has a poor memory; it soon puts all behind it. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 843b11d | They all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2adf34a | The library is always an adventure! | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 111e38a | She was a woman with a broom or a dust- pan or a washrag or a mixing spoon in her hand. You saw her cutting piecrust in the morning, humming to it, or you saw her setting out the baked pies at noon or taking them in, cool, at dusk. She rang porcelain cups like a Swiss bell ringer to their place. She glided through the halls as steadily as a vacuum machine, seeking, finding, and setting to rights. She made mirrors of every window, to catch t.. | woman fixing setting-right order gardening | Ray Bradbury | |
| fa21d69 | How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. | death | Ray Bradbury | |
| ca2d378 | The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 527d660 | Me? I'm the original sad man. I read a book and it makes me sad. See a film: sad. Plays? they really work me over. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b7ad89c | Often we want to be somewhere other than where we are, to even to be someone other than who we are. We tend to compare ourselves constantly with others and wonder why we are not as rich, as intelligent, as simple, as generous, or as saintly as they are. Such comparisons make us feel guilty, ashamed, or jealous. It is very important to realize that our vocation is hidden in where we are and who we are. We are unique human beings, each with a.. | vocation uniqueness comparison | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| dbdc242 | People who have come to know the joy of God do not deny the darkness, but they choose not to live in it. They claim that the light that shines in the darkness can be trusted more than the darkness itself and that a little bit of light can dispel a lot of darkness. They point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal the hidden but real presence of God. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| c6fd8d4 | God's love for us is everlasting. That means that God's love for us existed before we were born and will exist after we have died. It is an eternal love in which we are embraced. Living a spiritual life calls us to claim that eternal love for ourselves so that we can live our temporal loves - for parents, brothers, sisters, teachers, friends, spouses, and all people who become part of our lives - as reflections or refractions of God's etern.. | relationships | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 40203a6 | The leap of faith always means loving without expecting to be loved in return, giving without wanting to receive, inviting without hoping to be invited, holding without asking to be held. And every time I make a little leap, I catch a glimpse of the One who runs out to me and invites me into his joy, the joy in which I can find not only myself, but also my brothers and sisters. Thus the disciplines of trust and gratitude reveal the God who .. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 90a6d99 | To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 5c1c47e | We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 512bece | You can only seek God when you have already found God. The desire for God's unconditional love is the fruit of having been touched by that love. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 5538a73 | Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, 'Prove that you are a good person.' Another voice says, 'You'd better be ashamed of yourself.' There also is a voice that says, 'Nobody really cares about you,' and one that says, 'Be sure to become successful, popular, and powerful.' But underneath all these often very noisy voices is a still, small voice that says, 'You are my Beloved, my favor rests on you.' That's the voice .. | solitude silence prayer god | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 5fce873 | Exhaustion, burnout, and depression are not signs that you are doing God's will. God is gentle and loving. God desires to give you a deep sense of safety in God's love. Once you have allowed yourself to experience that love fully, you will be better able to discern who you are being sent to in God's name. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| ddfe8eb | There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 6a3ea67 | Unjust social orders do no fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of people organize a movement powerful enough to push them down. Rarely do such revolutions emerge in a neat and morally pristine process. | history unjust-social-orders oppressors revolution | Timothy B. Tyson | |
| fda360a | The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. | light life hand-of-life windy wind sun sunlight | Kahlil Gibran | |
| baca7ae | And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky. | reincarnation | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 213cb3f | You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 4d5ecf9 | llw`@ dh `Zmt tSyr khrs | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 7a1787a | Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech? The aggrieved and the injured say, "Beauty is kind and gentle. Like a young mother half-shy of her own glory she walks among us." And the passionate say, "Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread. Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.".. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 3c16adb | 'ahahn tufrqn sbl lHy@ ltdhhb bk l~ 'mjd lrjl wtsyr by l~ wjbt lmr'@? 'hkdh ynqDy lHlm ljmyl wtndthr lHqyq@ l`dhb@? 'hkdh tbtl` llWujW@ nGm@ lshHrwr wtnthr lryH 'wrq lwrd@ wtsHq l'qdm k's lkhmr? 'bTlan 'wqftn tlk llyl@ 'mm wjh lqmr wbTlan DamWn lrwH fy Zll hdhh lysmyn@? hl tsrWa`n blS`wd nHw lkwkb fklWt 'jnHtn whbTt bn l~ lhwy@? hl fj'n lHb ny'man fstyqZ GDban ly`qbn? 'm hyjt 'nfsn nsmt llyl fnqlbt ryHan shdyd@ ltmzWiqn wtjrfn klGbr l~ '`mq.. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 18bf89a | Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my vast language?" "Yea, we are twin brothers, O, Night; for thou revealest space and I reveal my soul." | soul | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 25b1acf | ffy lawn@ l'khyr@ qd tHqq ly wjwd rbT@ m`nwy@ dqyq@ qwy@ Gryb@ tkhtlf bTby`th w mzyh w t'thyrh `n kl rbT@ 'khr~, fhy 'shd w 'Slb w 'bq~ bm l yqs mn lrwbT ldmwy@ w ljnyny@ Ht~ w l'khlqy@. | جبران خليل جبران | ||
| aabb343 | You must use your mind to get things off your mind. | David Allen | ||
| 715a28b | In contrast, investing time and energy in your relationship with your spouse and children typically doesn't offer that same immediate sense of achievement. Kids misbehave every day. It's really not until 20 years down the road that you can put your hands on your hips and say, "I raised a good son or a good daughter." You can neglect your relationship with your spouse, and on a day-to-day basis, it doesn't seem as if things are deteriorating.. | Clayton M. Christensen |