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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4308816 | Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices; he enthrals and overpowers...he transmutes our personal destiny into the destiny of mankind, and evokes in us all those beneficent forces that ever and anon have enabled humanity to find refuge from every peril and to outlive the longest night. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 7e4a297 | If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general. | humanity individualism knowledge non-duality philosophy psychology society statistics wholeness | C.G. Jung | |
| 2f5d7cc | Even a scientist is a human being. So it is natural for him, like others, to hate the things he cannot explain. It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everlasting truth in itself. | C.G. Jung | ||
| db47bc8 | I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little. Outward circumstances are no substitute for inner experience. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 41a2f12 | To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 5b6b63f | Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire. | Alice Munro | ||
| 883c5e0 | For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity? | man | Alice Munro | |
| 35ec011 | Lived in curious but not unhappy isolation...subscribing to magazines nobody around them read, listening to programs on the national radio network which nobody around them listened to... | Alice Munro | ||
| e7fcbaf | Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions. | precociousness | Alice Munro | |
| 4f16499 | I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself. | Alice Munro | ||
| 165fcb7 | I'm sorry. I love you, but it's an enormous conflict of interest." Her head snaps up, "You love me?" "What?" MY face is suddenly on fire. "I never said that." "You did. I heard it." "I said I'd love to." "No," Sage says, a grin splitting her face. "You didn't." Did I? I'm so tired I don't know what the hell is coming out of my mouth. Which probably means that I don't have the faculties to cover up what I really feel for Sage Singer, with an.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 73ed19b | In a cave at the far edge of the kingdom lived a man who had sworn off love. When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dc1db4c | Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There's only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2f42a94 | Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d2a41e7 | My whole life, this is how I've defined the paranormal: can't understand it, can't explain it, can't deny it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 13a2055 | The thing about a mom is that she's always there. She's the one who rubs your back when you have the flu, who manages to notice you have no clean underwear and does your wash for you, who stocks the refrigerator with all the foods you love without having to ask. The thing about a mom is that you never imagine taking care of her, instead of the other way around. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 82b9b54 | He could stand pain, himself. He just couldn't stand hers. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fab6122 | The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me. | jury | Jodi Picoult | |
| 15f2385 | Ochite im se sreshchnakha i edno obeshchanie be dadeno, prieto i v'rnato. | James Clavell | ||
| 66871a7 | Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one onf the things that discipline - training - is about. | inspirational life-and-living life-lessons motivational pain sadness thoughts | James Clavell | |
| 3150f81 | Like dew I was born Like dew I vanish ..and all that I have ever done Is but a dream Within a dream | dreams life | James Clavell | |
| 594a91f | Men need to whisper secrets, Lady. That's what makes them different from us - they need to share secrets, but we women only reveal them to gain an advantage. | James Clavell | ||
| 7b07597 | I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| cbe1751 | if it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 60a2abc | Once I had asked, 'But are you a Democrat or a Republican?" and Jonathan said, "I'm socially progressive but fiscally conservative," and Doug Miles, a football player who also came to Sunday breakfast but only ever read the sports section and ignored everyone, lifted his head and said, "Is that like being bisexual?" Which I actually thought was funny, even though I was pretty sure Doug was a jerk." | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 75ce5f4 | it never comes down to a single thing you did or didn't do or say. You might convince yourself it did, but it didn't. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 260267a | I have been waiting for you for so long." I pointed to the car. "We are searching for Trachimbrod." "Oh," she said and she released a river of tears. "You are here. I am it." -- | jonathan-safran-foer | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 14533ed | All happy mornings resemble one another, as do all unhappy mornings, and that's at the bottom of what makes them so deeply unhappy: the feeling that this unhappiness has happened before, that efforts to avoid it will at best reinforce it, and probably even exacerbate it, that the universe is, for whatever inconceivable, unnecessary, and unjust reason, conspiring against the innocent sequence of clothes, breakfast, teeth and egregious cowlic.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| d414ab9 | Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a4fb296 | No baby knows when the nipple is pulled from his mouth for the last time. No child knows when he last calls his mother "Mama." No small boy knows when the book has closed on the last bedtime story that will ever be read to him. No boy knows when the water drains from the last bath he will ever take with his brother. No young man knows, as he first feels his greatest pleasure, that he will never again not be sexual. No brinking woman knows, .. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 0473522 | Before they had kids, if asked to conjure images of parenthood they would have said things like "Reading in bed," and "Giving a bath," and "Running while holding the seat of a bicycle." Parenthood contains such moments of warmth and intimacy, but isn't them. It's cleaning up. The great bulk of family life involves no exchange of love, and no meaning, only fulfillment. Not the fulfillment of feeling fulfilled, but of fulfilling that which no.. | meaning parenthood | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| fa23458 | You have to do something bad to do something good. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 6a6fdf5 | Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 82cf365 | Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war! | people truth war | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 248e979 | He was responsible. He was good. It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something, being good." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 58b1c10 | Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| f7aa497 | I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| fda36f2 | I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?" | joke | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 1830de8 | I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| b755d61 | The scene before her flattened, lost one of its dimensions, and the noise dribbled irrelevantly down its face. Something was coming. This moment, this very experience of it, seemed only the thinnest gauze. She sat in the audience thinking--someone here has cancer, someone has a broken heart, someone's soul is lost, someone feels naked and foreign, thinks they once knew the way but can't remember the way, feels stripped of armor and alone, t.. | Denis Johnson | ||
| 0533b96 | With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen. | hope thoughts unforeseen words | Denis Johnson | |
| ce3d6c2 | Like all men you have a religion - at least a way of looking at yourself and the universe both at once, which is all I'd hope a religion to be... | Denis Johnson | ||
| 276932b | Since Marco Polo, he thought, this climate has defeated Western civilization. | Denis Johnson | ||
| baf389a | You have to see fate as a design, a pattern, and the will as the knife, the blade, the thing slicing through the fabric... | Denis Johnson |