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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c60126 | I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks. | artists | Walter Kirn | |
| 36224a8 | It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| d674ef6 | Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 115f47d | The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures. | faith god prayer sufferings | Peter Kreeft | |
| 18162b0 | We walked to dinner, ate together, and talked nearly the whole time. I was amazed that I had as much in common with her as I did. I'd been raised mostly in a completely different country, yet we were so similar. | best-friends friendship-true-and-loyal girltalk jill jill-and-anna tall-dark-streak-of-lighting tdsol | J.M. Richards | |
| f177196 | And when you're not happy with your own life, and yourself, you can't be happy with anyone else. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 00ee69b | Is your life better with him, Anna, or without him? I decided right then, standing on that sidewalk, to stop worrying about things that might never go wrong. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 62e4f78 | I scrolled through your order history at Victoria's Secret." "Well, that's not at all creepy," she deadpanned. "Did you know there are items in your shopping cart? Sweaters. Lots of thick, long, skin-covering sweaters. Frankly, it confused me." "Maybe I already own plenty of lingerie. Considering I walk to work, sweaters are much more practical. Plus they're awfully cute." "I added a few things to your cart and checked out for you. I pa.. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 1837fc0 | She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint.... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. | sainthood | Flannery O'Connor | |
| d5ffd8e | I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 7512bfd | Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of mental bubble in which he established himself when he could not bear to be a part of what was going on around him. From it he could see out and judge but in it he was safe from any kind of penetration from without. It was the only place where he felt free of the general idiocy of his fellows. His mother had .. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| afb2ec8 | has reached the age of ten and is still alive. My critical powers are just sufficient to determine this, and I am gratified to be able to say it. The book was written with zest and, if possible, it should be read that way. It is a comic novel about a Christian , and as such, very serious, for all comic novels that are any good must be about matters of life and death. was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with .. | wise-blood | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 37badb3 | I guess a good man IS hard to find! | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 6b4f861 | We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust." | faith god trust try | Peter Kreeft | |
| 787cea0 | Dunyanin iyi yonde degistigini hic gormedim. | Alan Moore | ||
| dbd6ccb | Hace un momento tenia la preocupacion de que no le querias bastante y ahora casi me da miedo verte quererle tanto | Alejandro Casona | ||
| 2c4fb0a | You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not the story of my life. | memoir | Abigail Thomas | |
| 163d26e | The scandal is that the gospel means liberation, that this liberation comes to the poor, and that it gives them the strength and the courage to break the conditions of servitude. | James H. Cone | ||
| d8926e0 | Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle? | nature nature-of-man power | Malcolm Lowry | |
| 5954d4e | LE GUSTA ESTE JARDIN QUE ES SUYO? !EVITE QUE SUS HIJOS LO DESTRUYAN! | spanish spiritual | Malcolm Lowry | |
| 8c60964 | and as they stood in silence before her, prayed again. "Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life." Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey. "Please let Yvonne have her dream -- dream? -- of a new life with me -- please let me believe that all that is not an abominable self-deception," he tried... "Please l.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 3ba9454 | The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves. | birds hangover nerves | Malcolm Lowry | |
| 8fa836a | Shame is paralyzing and debilitating. It invites us not to be heard, at least not in an authentic way. Acting courageously when shame enters the picture requires extraordinary courage because people will do anything to escape from shame or from the possibility that shame will be evoked. It is just too difficult to go there. Even for people who will walk in to the fires of transformation to face fear. Men and women tend to manage shame dif.. | Harriet Lerner | ||
| a4982f9 | Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself in the Lord, in His provision, in His Word. Faithfully feed on the things that possess true substance and real meaning. When you remember that "all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16) and partake of such divine substan.. | peace | Elizabeth George | |
| 3c9f11b | It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it. | challenge christian develop dream faith goal god heart love sacrifice strategy women | Elizabeth George | |
| 2bcfb40 | Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal. | christian fake god inspire love mind thought unreal women worry | Elizabeth George | |
| 18d0b15 | The stage of mental comfort to which they had arrived at this hour was one wherein their souls expanded beyond their skins, and spread their personalities warmly through the room. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| ce165e1 | Thought failed him, and he returned to realities. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 82d8e73 | People who have always gone right don't know half as much about the nature and ways of going right as those do who have gone wrong. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| e907426 | At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. Rather they became a part of it; for the world is only a psychological phenomenon, and what they seemed they were. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| c2505da | Bygones would never be complete bygones till she was a bygone herself. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 6151bd7 | To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 42ad984 | There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure. It is the usual experience of strong natures when they love. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| de2306d | As Antigone said, I am neither a dweller among men nor ghosts. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| f434f35 | But time is short, and science is infinite... | life science time | Thomas Hardy | |
| dac6eec | I am in a chaos of principles--groping in the dark--acting by instinct and not after example. Eight or nine years ago when I came here first, I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best. There, gentle.. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 601426b | But a new thing, a great hitch, had happened yesterday in the gliding and noiseless current of his life, and he felt as a snake must feel who has sloughed off its winter skin, and cannot understand the brightness and sensitiveness of its new one. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| c4c09c9 | To be conscious that the end of a dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 0d813be | You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages. | girl sue-bridehead talk way-of-speaking | Thomas Hardy | |
| 78684d2 | He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears... | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 896ae3b | It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be called-- were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who should be as cold-blooded as a fish and as selfish as a pig to have a really good chance of being one of his country's worthies. You may ridicule me--I am quite willing that you should-- I am a fit subject, no doubt. But I think if you knew what I ha.. | generations progress | Thomas Hardy | |
| 493c4cc | Tess was awake before dawn -- at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken. | dawn nature | Thomas Hardy | |
| 1fbfc94 | She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct. | theology | Thomas Hardy | |
| edf5901 | There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be--knew all that a guide, philosopher, and friend should know. She thought every line in the contour of his person the perfection of masculine beauty, his soul the soul of a saint, his intellect that of a seer. The wisdom of her love for him, as love, sustained her dignity; she seemed to be wearing a crown. The compassion of .. | dignity love | Thomas Hardy |