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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | struggle life | 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 | ||
| 0b44daa | You are worthy, dear one, regardless of the outcome. You will keep making your work, regardless of the outcome. You will keep sharing your work, regardless of the outcome. You were born to create, regardless of the outcome. You will never lose trust in the creative process, even when you don't understand the outcome. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 41568aa | Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow. | marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 6c695da | I agree--the world isn't a nursery. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort." (53)" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a132919 | Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f4f2abd | The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth - the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being's difficulty in coming i.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 099292d | The Buddha referred to married people as "householders." He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder: Be nice to your spouse, be honest, be faithful, give alms to the poor, buy some insurance against fire and flood . . . I'm dead serious: The Buddha literally advised married couples to buy property insurance." | marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 294b9f8 | But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4ae7473 | When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere - wherever people are living out their lives. It's a city with a million centers. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c8274a8 | Genetic randomness had already determined how much talent I'd been allotted, and destiny's randomness would account for my share of luck. The only piece I had any control over was my discipline. Recognizing that, it seemed like the best plan would be to work my ass off. That was the only card I had to play, so I played it hard. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c04505d | I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume. But you must stubbornly walk into that room, regardless, and you must hold your head high. You made it; you get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with.. | individuality motivation inspirational support hard-work work-ethic pride creativity | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| a02b2da | Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 88ad175 | If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 89e988b | The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to discover those jewels--that's creative living. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4577144 | I found that eating alone by the window in a quiet restaurant is one of life's greatest secret pleasures. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 02e1ded | Parolo pou e pseudaisthese sukhna anapteronei kai anakouphizei, sto telos panta adunatizei kai periorizei ten psukhe. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| cf760d1 | It's no great mystery. If no one will listen, it's only natural to shout! | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 41dbdc5 | The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness--domains soaked in anxiety. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 38b6bdd | wknt rtb@ Hy@ lkbr tthyr shfqty dy'man , wHyn 'drkt 'n hdhh lHy@ stkwn `m qryb mn nSyby , 'stwl~ `ly lDyq | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 1e084cc | Kadini goturup mutfaga ya da suslenme odasina kapatiyor, sonra da ufkunun darligina sasiyoruz; kanatlarini kesiyoruz, sonra, ucamiyor diye yakiniyoruz. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 762dd24 | Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 5740356 | If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I'd shake it off. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| af6bdd5 | To paint, to write, to engage in politics--these are not merely 'sublimations'; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history. | Simone de Beauvoir |