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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8841c70 | As for describing the smell of a spaniel mixed with the smell of torches, laurels, incense, banners, wax candles and a garland of rose leaves crushed by a satin heel that has been laid up in camphor, perhaps Shakespeare, had he paused in the middle of writing Antony and Cleopatra -- But Shakespeare did not pause. Confessing our inadequacy, then, we can but note that to Flush Italy, in these the fullest, the freest, the happiest years of his.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 00eff59 | The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if they had never been. There one might have sat the clock round lost in thought. Thought --to call it by a prouder name than it deserved-- had let its line down into the stream. It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds,.. | ideas inspiration | Virginia Woolf | |
| c87e443 | It proves that one's life is not confined to one's body and what one says or does; one is living all the time in relation to certain background rods or conceptions. Mine is that there is a pattern hid behind the cotton wool. And this conception affects me every day. I prove this, now, by spending the morning writing, when I might be walking, running a shop, or learning to do something that will be useful if war comes. I feel that by writing.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 342d18b | At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial - and any question about sex is that - one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker. Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| a505aee | When you are silent you are again beautiful. | silence | Virginia Woolf | |
| 671acfc | One should only be afraid of those things Which have the power of doing others harm; For the rest, fear not; because they are not fearful. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 1fb92cc | On march the banners of the King of Hell. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 5a1ba2d | So many times a man's thoughts will waver, That it turns him back from honored paths, As false sight turns a beast, when he is afraid. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 5039901 | If you, free as you are of every weight had stayed below, then that would be as strange as living flame on earth remaining still." And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens." | theosis | Dante Alighieri | |
| eb50248 | 'sw' mkn fy ljHym hw mkhSSun lhwl ldhyn ybqwn `l~ Hydhm fy zmn lm`rk l'khlqy@ lkbr~ | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 373e17d | I want to take care of you | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 83263d8 | Gabriel slowly began rubbing his eyes, for in addition to suffering from one of the worst hangover headaches of his life, he was slightly enjoying the sight of Miss Mitchell in his T-shirt and boxer shorts, passionately angry and shouting at him in a multiplicity of Western European languages. It was the second most erotic thing he had ever witnessed. And it was entirely beside the point. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| be8ad4e | Not even Hell could keep me from you | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| e629976 | Queridisima Julianne: Gracias por tu regalo, de valor incalculable. Lo unico valioso que tengo para darte a cambio es mi corazon. | spanish | Sylvain Reynard | |
| 76d6289 | Tal vez fui demasiado cuidadoso, demasiado protector, pero no podia soportar la idea de causarte dolor. | spanish | Sylvain Reynard | |
| 1f49463 | I think no one--human or otherwise--is perfect. If perfection is the standard for normalcy, we all fail. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 6225475 | Every time I do something for you, I'm trying to demonstrate the words I cannot say. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 353c95a | Oh, Psyche. "'Fortune doth menace unto thee imminent danger, wherof I wish thee greatly to beware. . . . thou shalt purchase to mee great sorrow, and to thyself utter destruction. . . . Beware that ye covet not . . . to see the shape of my person, lest by your curiosity you deprive your selfe of so great and worthy estate." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| db67cdb | The dotted line my father's ashplant made | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 1cafc83 | We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 192e277 | Believe that a further shore is reachable from here. | inspiration perspective | Seamus Heaney | |
| 843afe7 | Fate goes ever as fate must. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 9fd2e73 | Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them? | David Gemmell | ||
| 68af594 | The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match. | David Gemmell | ||
| 42a62a5 | Today I could like anybody," said Rek, smiling. "The sky is clear, the wind is fresh, and life tastes very fine. What will you do now?" "I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works." "No," said Rek. "I mean, what will you do today?" "Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring," said Bowman." | David Gemmell | ||
| 42658a0 | Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild. | life struggle | David Gemmell | |
| 4499712 | A great man once told me there can be no courage without fear | fear | David Gemmell | |
| c21cd0c | One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie. | Beatrix Potter | ||
| 71fdfc8 | We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation and, as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully accessed. While this ability can lead us to transcendence, paradoxically it can lead also to violence; our longing for transcendence arises from our intuitive sensing of this adaptive potential and our violence arises from our failure to develop it. | Joseph Chilton Pearce | ||
| 3256d63 | The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 37c2e3d | By the time I got to the bottom, I understood what Guthrie ment when he shouted LIBERO! It was a celebration of being alive. | Sharon Creech | ||
| e4344c4 | Hope is the fuel of the ship of dreams. Without hope you can't even get out of the harbor. | Dyan Sheldon | ||
| ed64c2d | How can you live without stars? What keeps you from thinking about yourself all the time? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| a3fd804 | Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 95e1c3c | We wear our problems diffrently | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 4c0ecc4 | I want to have a lasting experience of God', I told him. 'Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I lose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0ae8a04 | I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8a77066 | True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a7fe3f1 | Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time--when pursued like a bandit--will behave like one; always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't... | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2d8db2d | It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4687fba | I have a friend, an aspiring musician, whose sister said to her one day, quite reasonably, "What happens if you never get anything out of this? What happens if you pursue your passion forever, but success never comes? How will you feel then, having wasted your entire life for nothing?" My friend, with equal reason, replied, "If you can't see what I'm already getting out of this, then I'll never be able to explain it to you." When it's for l.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 97857d2 | An abiding stereotype of creativity is that it turns people crazy. I disagree: Not expressing creativity turns people crazy. ("If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is within you, what you don't bring forth will destroy you."--Gospel of Thomas.)" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 361ad6e | What you produce is not necessarily always sacred, I realized, just because you think it's sacred. What is sacred is the time that you spend working on the project, and what that time does to expand your imagination, and what that expanded imagination does to transform your life. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fd70d6e | lyki 'n tt`lmy kyfa tkhtryn 'fkrk ,tmman km tkhtrynamlbsk kul ywm | Elizabeth Gilbert |