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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a5c1771 | Because sometimes the only way to keep from losing everything is to give everything up. Because sometimes strength must for the sake of winning give in to-- | Ken Kesey | ||
| 7ca31d1 | They don't have to think. Just be afraid naturally and pulling together. Like specks of mercury rolling into the big piece. Like little specks of mercury rolling into bigger specks and then bigger and then just one piece, and nothing to be scared about or hurt about because you're just a piece of a bigger piece getting bigger rolling across the land into an ocean of mercury... | Ken Kesey | ||
| b68c201 | I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| ceea2c5 | I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 59f3be8 | After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| efdad89 | Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 9fb5a8a | We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| e065d93 | Babe, I nearly shot Skid in the ass one time because a spider fell on me while I was holding a gun," I finally managed to say. "Those things freak me right the hell out. They got eight fuckin' legs, and that ain't natural. That's some Dr. Seuss shit right there." | Joanna Wylde | ||
| 770a57b | you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. Dr Seuss | Len Webster | ||
| b9f19a5 | Thanks pal, but I tend to avoid any substance that makes me feel smarter, stronger, or better looking than I know I actually am." There were, in his opinion, drugs that diminished ego and drugs that engorged ego, which is to say, revelatory drugs and delusory drugs, and on a psychic level, at least, he favored awe over swagger. Should he ever aspire to become voluntarily delusional, then good old-fashioned alcohol would do the job effective.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| bc7f691 | To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 6ce4d99 | You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing." | Tom Robbins | ||
| b43d19b | Personally, I prefer Stevie Wonder," confessed the Chink, "but what the hell. Those cowgirls are always bitching because the only radio station in the area plays nothing but polkas, but I say you can dance to if you really feel like dancing." To prove it, he got up and danced to the news." | passion philosophy | Tom Robbins | |
| 0efa69a | Why," Tanuki grumbled, "would they fell trees but leave men standing? Trees are a damn sight more useful than people, and everything in the world knows that but people." -- | Tom Robbins | ||
| 430c1de | For the ethical, political activism was seductive because it seemed to offer the possibility that one could improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self. For the unconscionable, political reactivism was seductive because it seemed to protect one's holdings and legitimize one's greed. But both sides were gazing through a kerchief of illusion. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 11c8c20 | There is, however, a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like part of the act. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 1f8b5a4 | we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his "no trespassing" sign" | Tom Robbins | ||
| b390090 | We live now in an information technology. Flowers have always lived in an information technology. Flowers gather information all day. At night, they process it. This is called photosynthesis. As our neocortex comes into full use, we, too will practice photosyntesis. As a matter of fact, we already do, but compared for flowers, our kind is primitive and limited. For one thing, information gathered from daily newspapers, soap operas, sales .. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4687dc4 | So you think that you're a failure, do ya? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you have any sense at all, we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail! But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 55294f5 | The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games. | disasters earthquakes flash-floods god pinball tidal-waves volcanoes | Tom Robbins | |
| c25e3d9 | I do not fear death. I resent it. Everything must die, apparently, and I am no exception. But I want to be consulted. You know what I mean? Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots. I have a new passion, my darlings, a passion for being myself, and for being more than previously has been manifested for a single lifetime. I am determine.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| d34cad2 | To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in the course of a literate life. To cynics, Z is just an S with a stick up its butt. Well, true enough, any word worth repeating is greater than the sum of its parts; and the particular word-part Z can, from a certain perspective, appear anally wired. On those of us neither prosaic nor.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4595944 | Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. | perfume | Tom Robbins | |
| 6585750 | Now and again, one could detect in a childless woman of a certain age the various characteristics of all the children she had never issued. Her body was haunted by the ghost of souls who hadn't lived yet. Premature ghosts. Half-ghosts. X's without Y's. Y's without X's. They applied at her womb and were denied, but, meant for her and no one else, they wouldn't go away. Like tiny ectoplasmic gophers, they hunkered in her tear ducts. They shon.. | fertility life parenting science | tom robbins | |
| 8929738 | Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled - whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others.. | current-affairs politics | Harry G. Frankfurt | |
| d99524c | Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness in our lives; it's the process that teaches us the most about who we are. | Brené Brown | ||
| 1c6232b | Knowing what I do now, I think about shame and worthiness in this way: 'It's the album, not the picture.' If you imagine opening up a photo album, and many of the pages are full eight-by-ten photos of shaming events, you'll close that album and walk away thinking, Shame defines that story. If, on the other hand, you open that album and see a few small photos of shame experiences, but each one is surrounded by pictures of worthiness, hope, s.. | worthiness | Brené Brown | |
| 8637e61 | One of the most powerful ways that our shame triggers get reinforced is when we enter into a social contract based on these gender straitjackets. Our relationships are defined by women and men saying, "I'll play my role, and you play yours." One of the patterns revealed in the research was how all that role playing becomes almost unbearable around midlife. Men feel increasingly disconnected, and the fear of failure becomes paralyzing. Women.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 903fbae | Connection: Connection is the energy that is created between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment. Belonging: Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belon.. | Brené Brown | ||
| e16b8ac | The courage to be vulnerable is not about winning or losing, it's about the courage to show up when you can't predict or control the outcome. | Brené Brown | ||
| fee6e3a | There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. | Brené Brown | ||
| 48bfb06 | Betrayal is an important word with this guidepost. When we value being cool and in control over granting ourselves the freedom to unleash the passionate, goofy, heartfelt, and soulful expressions of who we are, we betray ourselves. When we consistently betray ourselves, we can expect to do the same to the people we love. When we don't give ourselves permission to be free, we rarely tolerate that freedom in others. We put them down, make fun.. | Brené Brown | ||
| c0b7f75 | Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind. | Brené Brown | ||
| 4f82df1 | We can spend our entire life betraying ourself and choosing fitting in over standing alone. But once we've stood up for ourself and our beliefs, the bar is higher. A wild heart fights fitting in and grieves betrayal. | Brené Brown | ||
| e261cd4 | You can't numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions. You cannot selectively numb. So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. And then we are miserable, and we are looking for purpose and meaning, and then we feel vulnerable, so then we have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. And it becomes this dangerous cycle. | Brené Brown | ||
| 15a9d52 | Show up for people in pain and don't look away. | Brené Brown | ||
| c4b347d | the idea that we're "wired for story" is more than a catchy phrase. Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has found that hearing a story--a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end--causes our brains to release cortisol and oxytocin. These chemicals trigger the uniquely human abilities to connect, empathize, and make meaning. Story is literally in our DNA." | Brené Brown | ||
| b23ecfb | When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding. | Brené Brown | ||
| 6c48db1 | The most dangerous stories we make up are the narratives that diminish our inherent worthiness. | Brené Brown | ||
| f2e3885 | Requiring accountability while also extending your compassion is not the easiest course of action, but it is the most humane, and, ultimately, the safest for the community. | boundaries compassion | Brené Brown | |
| 1f81d83 | Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance. | Brené Brown | ||
| 1e048bf | Not caring about our own pain and the pain of others is not working. How much longer are we willing to keep pulling drowning people out of the river one by one, rather than walking to the headwaters of the river to find the source of the pain? What will it take for us to let go of that earned self-righteousness and travel together to the cradle of the pain that is throwing all of us in at such a rate that we couldn't possibly save everyone?.. | Brené Brown | ||
| f785ad0 | Perfectionism is not abut healthy achievement and growth. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It's a shield. | Brené Brown | ||
| 41d0fe6 | Given enough idleness & time, she could talk herself into either loving or hating the man | Karin Slaughter |