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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 97b638e | Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinks--a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece. | greece mediterranean wine | Tom Standage | |
| de9fe89 | Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred is lost and the human being--whoever he or she may be--is no longer revered as an inviolable mystery. | inspirational | Karen Armstrong | |
| b67626e | When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is "really" there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again." from Coleridge: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Becau.. | inspiration | Karen Armstrong | |
| 90f7acf | People worship different things; there must be 'no coercion in matters of faith! | Karen Armstrong | ||
| fccf1da | Religious discourse was not intended to be understood literally because it was only possible to speak about a reality that transcended language in symbolic terms. The story of the lost paradise was a myth, not a factual account of a historical event. People were not expected to "believe" it in the abstract; like any mythos, it depended upon the rituals associated with the cult of a particular holy place to make what it signified a reality i.. | religion spirituality | Karen Armstrong | |
| e1ef957 | In [the] early days, Muslims did not see Islam as a new, exclusive religion but as a continuation of the primordial faith of the 'People of the Book', the Jews and Christians. In one remarkable passage, God insists that Muslims must accept indiscriminately the revelations of every single one of God's messengers: Abraham, Isaac, Ishamel, Jacob, Moses, Jesus and all the other prophets. The Qur'an is simply a 'confirmation' of the previous scr.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 5c534b2 | Even if things didn't always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to. | Laura Dave | ||
| b98682f | Why could we say more to each other when it counted less? | Laura Dave | ||
| 04bbdd9 | This is the painful part. Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be. | Laura Dave | ||
| c949cbc | Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice. | ethics religion | Dan Simmons | |
| 7231e29 | The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation. | revelation | Dan Simmons | |
| d95e80f | The Ice Master was too injured and too exhausted to crawl any farther. Let whatever was going to happen to him happen now and may a Sailor's God fuck to Hell this fucking thing that was going to eat him. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 7bb4ee8 | Meaning no disrespect, sir, but there's no way in the Good Lord's fucking universe that anyone can bar accidents or the unexpected. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 0f69336 | Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings. | Dan Simmons | ||
| b6e2798 | Stand as I did after throwing the switch, a murderer, a betrayer, but still proud, feet firmly planted on Hyperion's shifting sand, head held high, fist raised against the sky, crying "A plague on both your houses!" | Dan Simmons | ||
| a679d3e | Childhood is a branch of cartography. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 4b3efc1 | Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 75c452d | You would never do anything like that, would you?" my wife asked him. "You would never hurt animals." Our son shook his head, looking offended by the question. He might have been lying, but my knowledge of his belief system, composed of equal parts off-kilter Far Side animal-centrism and a dark Captain Nemoesque contempt for humanity, inclined me to think he was telling the truth. Gigantic fish pulling the limbs from cruel little boys, that.. | humor | Michael Chabon | |
| d1022c2 | And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 6088fec | Eight solid light-years of lead...is the thickness of that metal in which you would need to encase yourself if you wanted to keep from being touched by neutrinos. I guess the little fuckers are everywhere. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 9a4575a | A few other couples joined us on the dance floor and we lost ourselves among them. I'd never been able to figure out exactly what was involved in slow dancing, so I contented myself, as I had since high school, with gripping my partner to me, letting out awkward breaths against her ear, and tipping from foot to foot like someone waiting for a bus. I could feel the sweat cooling on her forearms and smell a trace of apples in her hair. | high-school slow-dancing sweat waiting-for-the-bus | Michael Chabon | |
| 5e9019a | Was it even possible to forgive the dead? Was forgiveness an emotion, or a transaction that required a partner? I had made a promise to someone who would never see it kept. I wanted to respect my grandfather's wish, and it would have been no trouble to evade my mother's question. Keeping secrets was the family business. But it was a business, it seemed to me, that none of us had ever profited from. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 4f79ab1 | It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle. | sour woman | Michael Chabon | |
| 15a18a0 | Success, however, does nothing to diminish the knowledge that failure stalks everything you do. | Michael Chabon | ||
| ee9e657 | When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. (Isa. 43:2) | Max Lucado | ||
| 039ee81 | Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out. | incarnation | Max Lucado | |
| 9323638 | Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness. We begin to wonder if love lives in heaven. If God can sleep in our storms, if his eyes stay shut when our eyes grow wide, if he permits storms after we got on his boat, does he care? Fear unleashes a swarm of doubts, anger-stirring doubts. Fear at its center, is a perceived loss of control. | Max Lucado | ||
| acf931b | What I urge is that you learn to master your life by living each day in a day-tight compartment and this will certainly ensure your safety throughout your entire journey of life. | life | Max Lucado | |
| 4efa195 | Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart--poisoned as it is with pride and pain--and replacing it with his own. Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change. Do you clean up so he can accept you? No, he accepts you and begins cleaning you up. His dream isn't just to get you into heaven but to get heaven into you. | Max Lucado | ||
| e6934d9 | It is said that everytime we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life. So please embrace me now. | love | Paulo Coelho | |
| 1aac920 | If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| b8d5a88 | Love is an act of faith in another pesron, not an act of surrender. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| a4a6a79 | l yHtj lmr l~ tslq ljbl , ly`rf 'nh `ly@ | montana novel | Paulo Coelho | |
| 9dbdcab | every movement needs to pause at times | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2c2a181 | Knowing that doesn't make any difference. People do their best not to remember and not to accept the immense magical potential they possess, because that would upset their neat little universes. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| e8c2f21 | Hytn rHl@ mstmr@ mn lmhd ly llHd. ytGyr lmnZr lTby`y, ytGyr lns, Gyr 'n lqTr ywSl syrh. lHy@ hy lqTr wlys lmHT@. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 7f1d88c | When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 91841eb | Todos los caminos del mundo llevan hasta el corazon del guerrero; el se zambulle sin pensar en el rio de las pasiones que corre por su vida. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 80e7ece | If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, and that's his love for his family. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 88045c6 | mldhy yj`l shkhS ykrh nfsh? ljbn rbm... w lkhwf ldy'm mn 'n tkwn mkhTy'.. 'w `dm `ml m ytwq`h l'khrwn mnk | Paulo Coelho | ||
| af4091b | There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 905ede9 | fy hdh lwqt twqf kthyr mn lns `n lHy@ ,fhm l yGDbwn wl ybkwn....yntZrwn fqT n ymr lwqt l yqblwn tHdyt lHy@ whkdh lm t`d lHy@ ttHdhm | Paulo Coelho | ||
| cfefc25 | She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world. Just like her at that moment. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| ff42bdc | lys fy lymn m ymkn tlqynh .. l'nh lys mthl qw`d lryDyt mthlan .. `lyk 'n ttqbl sr lyymn wstjd 'n lkwn klh sayu`lan lk | Paulo Coelho |