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| 2e4bbfb | Have you ever noticed those people whom you see jogging day after day? They are the ones who seem not to need to jog. But that's why they are fit. Those who are wealthy work at staying financially fit. But those who are not financially fit do little to change their status. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| d482e62 | One day I was driving down the farm track in the pickup,with two of the little boys, aged about four or five, sitting beside me. One of them turned to me conversationally and said, "Baba, don't worry. When you get old one day you'll be sitting here where we are, and we'll be driving you around!" | Angus Buchan | ||
| 2afedf1 | Teenage Turn-Ons As played by Robert Pattinson in the Twilight Saga movies, Edward has a certain physical sex appeal thanks in part to the the actor's handsome features. but the appeal in both the movies and the novels has nothing to do with a bad-boy energy that so often translates into sexiness because, really, even when he's full-out vamp, there isn't that much of a bad boy to be found in his character. Curiously, the sexiness of the vam.. | edward-cullen robert-pattinson twilight-saga | Laura L. Enright | |
| 86f72e8 | You can rescue someone from danger, but not from change and death; the soldier who survives the battle becomes someone else, something else, somewhere else. His war subsides; his memory fades; his nation ceases to exist; all but the elemental structures decay away; the very atoms that were once warring sides are now soil, trees, lovers, birds; all the medals are playthings for strangers; the cannons have been melted down and turned back int.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 30b8797 | To which I'd like to append a variation on Lewis's Law ("all comments on feminism justify feminism"): the plethora of men attacking women and anyone who stands up for women in order to prove that women are not under attack and feminism has no basis in reality are apparently unaware that they're handily proving the opposite. " | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 9877609 | Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit. You hope for results, but you don't depend on them. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| b8fc37b | A happy love is a single story, a disintegrating one is two or more competing, conflicting versions, and a disintegrated one lies at your feet like a shattered mirror, each shard reflecting a different story, that it was wonderful, that it was terrible, if only this had, if only that hadn't. The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers and occasionally maps and.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 046564c | The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. It's an extraordinary declaration, asserting that the unknown need not be turned into the known through false divination or the projection of grim political or ideological narratives; it's a celebration of darkness, willing - as that "I think" indicates--to be uncertain even about its own assertion. Most people are afraid of the dark. Literally when it comes to children.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 223dc3e | But hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the present, the surprises. Or perhaps studying the record more carefully leads us to expect miracles - not when and where we expect them, but to expect to be astonished, to expect that we don't know. And this is grounds to act. | bonum potentia transcendentia | Rebecca Solnit | |
| bac2364 | We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 3772b4a | David had been photographing endangered species in the Hawaiian rainforest and elsewhere for years, and his collections of photographs and Suzie's tarot cards seemed somehow related. Because species disappear when their habitat does, he photographed them against the nowhere of a black backdrop (which sometimes meant propping up a black velvet cloth in the most unlikely places and discouraging climates), and so each creature, each plant, sto.. | environment habitat nature page-21-22 | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 0e66bd1 | Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| afb395c | Think of how much more time and energy we would have to focus on other things that matter if we weren't so busy surviving. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 0eff6fb | In idyllic small towns I sometimes see teenagers looking out of place in their garb of desperation, the leftover tatters and stains and slashes of the fashion of my youth. For this phase of their life, the underworld is their true home, and in the grit and underbelly of a city they could find something that approximates it. Even the internal clock of adolescents changes, making them nocturnal creatures for at least a few years. All through .. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| fa277f9 | She was making the case that we should resist on principle, even though it might be futile. I had just begun trying to make the case for hope in writing, and I argued that you don't know if your actions are futile; that you don't have the memory of the future; that the future is indeed dark, which is the best thing it could be; and that, in the end, we always act in the dark. The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 58ad265 | Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined, | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 4509487 | Time always wins; our victories are only delays; but delays are sweet, and a delay can last a whole lifetime. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| a10bfce | You do what you can. What you'd done may do more than you can imagine for generations to come. You plant a seed and a tree grows from it; will there be fruit, shade, habitat for birds, more seeds, a forest, wood to build a cradle or a house? You don't know. A tree can live much longer than you. So will an idea, and sometimes the changes that result from accepting that new idea about what is true, or right, just might remake the world. You d.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| ca0b521 | Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 5b2ddb8 | when you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for you when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind and walking travels both terrains. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| e5c1ec1 | Any man in love with Cesare is already half in love with his sister. Now, when [Pedro Calderon] shuts his eyes, he cannot see anything else. | Sarah Dunant | ||
| 8954aab | It wasn't necessary. Wilmer offered his piece of the map in exchange for a fair share. His only condition was to come along." "And Maribor's beard, was that ever a mistake," Wilmer said. "Might have been better if you had killed me." He looked at the thief. "Would have been quick and painless, right?" Royce shrugged. "Sure, why not." | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 7621a7a | The greatest minds and the most advanced engineering went into its creation. They carved the prison out of solid rock from the face of the mountains just north of the lake. They sealed it not only with metal, stone, and wood but also with ancient and powerful enchantments. In the end, when it was finished, it was believed to be the most secure prison in the world." "They must have had some really nasty criminals back then to go to so much .. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 6d224f9 | When you expect nothing from the world--not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe--everything is a wonder and every moment a gift. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 89b2259 | Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 964ac31 | I walked past the lady in yellow robes and the maid bringing her a letter, past the soldier with a magnificent hat and the girl smiling at him, thinking of warm lips, brown eyes, blue eyes. Her brown eyes stopped me. It's the painting from whose frame a girl looks out, ignoring her beefy music teacher, whose proprietary hand rests on her chair. The light is muted, winter light, but her face is bright. I looked into her brown eyes and I re.. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 6714aac | A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. | borderline-personality-disorder suicidal-thoughts suicide | Susanna Kaysen | |
| 2736888 | Who had the courage to burn herself? Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the tri.. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| ed6fbd3 | I got better and Daisy didn't and I can't explain why. Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| d182639 | The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones. | choice religion | A.J. Jacobs | |
| 52e115f | Ecclesiastes This is a book of the Old Testament. I don't believe I've ever read this section of the Bible - I know my Genesis pretty well and my Ten Commandments (I like lists), but I'm hazy on a lot of the other parts. Here, the Britannica provides a handy Cliff Notes version of Ecclesiastes: [the author's] observations on life convinced him that 'the race is not swift, nor the battle strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intel.. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| bb2f861 | A few weeks later, I'm in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I'm sitting next to a guy who's doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we're about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He's neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he's not a genius. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| e6ed6b2 | In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| 9c17784 | Erwachsene erinnern sich nicht daran wie es war, ein Kind zu sein, auch wenn sie es behaupten. Sie wissen es nicht mehr. Glaub mir. Sie haben alles vergessen. Wie viel grosser ihnen die Welt damals erschien. Das es muhsam sein konnte, auf einen Stuhl zu klettern. Wie fuhlte es sich an, immer hoch zu blicken? | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 39bf591 | There is no need," Capricorn finally began, raising his voice, "for me to explain to most of you why the three prisoners you see there are to be punished. For the rest, it is enough for me to say it is for treachery, loose talk, and stupidity. One may argue, of course, over whether or not stupidity is a crime deserving of death. I think it is, for it can have exactly the same consequences as treachery." | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 93d4102 | Though I can't help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| 8e5f1a3 | The most powerful women in Sachaka and all you do is waste time gossiping and matchmaking | humour lorkin traitors tyvara | Trudi Canavan | |
| e121edf | Friendship? What friendship? I lust after him and he rightly ignores it! | Trudi Canavan | ||
| b46bbf5 | The contradictions were apparent to Makhaya, and perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ. It seemed to Makhaya far preferable for Africa if it did without Christianity and Christian double-talk, fat priests, golden images, and looked around at all the thin naked old men who sat under trees weaving baskets with shaking hands. People could do without religions and G.. | Bessie Head | ||
| 6acc8ef | He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling. | falling possible | Tom Perrotta | |
| bca4599 | Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren't any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession's glutted with tenured old men who won't step aside for the next generation. While the university's busy exploiting you for cheap labor, you somehow have to produce a boring thesis that no one will read, and find someone willing to publish it as a b.. | graduate-school life | Tom Perrotta | |
| 1bd5c70 | I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond." | Jack Kerouac | ||
| c1dbd0f | But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars... | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 34acdeb | I visualized myself at Norma's house, stretched out on her couch, my eyes closed, and she at bthe paino playing a powerful movement from some Symphony in D major by Beethoven, by Brahms, by Sibelius, by Tschaikowsky, by anybody, by Thomas Wolfe, by Ernest Hemmingway, by William Saroyan, by Jack Kerouac, by George Apostolos, by Sebastian the Prince, by Love, by Earth, by Fire, by Water, by All, Everything, Love you and I, me myself, egotist,.. | Jack Kerouac |