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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 51345d1 | people have been fed spoonfuls of nonsense and told it was Jesus. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 452ce17 | it has been my experience that what makes us the saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God's ability to work through sinners. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 0ddce4c | This desire to learn what the faith is from those who have lived it in the face of being told they are not welcome or worthy is far more than "inclusion." Actually, inclusion isn't the right word at all, because it sounds like in our niceness and virtue we are allowing "them" to join "us"--like we are judging another group of people to be worthy of inclusion in a tent that we don't own." | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 795c792 | She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay the ferryman. The air rippled and shimmered. Time narrowed to a pinpoint. It was about to happen. | beautiful death dying edward-thomas gerard-manley-hopkins john-keats kate-atkinson literary-allusions literary-quotes quotes william-blake william-shakespeare william-wordsworth | Kate Atkinson | |
| 07efdb7 | When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from.. | extraordinary genius learning napoleon-bonaparte nurture raphael richard-wagner study talent thomas-edison training william-shakespeare | Mark Twain | |
| 11d8cda | I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breathe life into me. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 6999834 | ryH khfyf@ jdan thbWu thm tamrWu, dy'man khfyf@ jdan w 'n l '`rf fym 'fkr w l 's`~ l~ 'n '`rf. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 1b14b54 | 'n n`rf mn nHn lys sh'nn nHn, l'n m nfkrh wm nHsh hw dy'man trjm@ m, m nrydh lm ykn mwD` rGbtn. 'n '`rf hdh klh fy kl dqyq@, 'n 'Hs hdh klh fy kl Hss, 'ln ykwn m`nh 'n 'kwn 'jnbyan dkhl rwHy dhth, mnfyan fy 'Hsysy lkhS@? | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 09b8184 | Swthu kn mbHwHanw mrtjfan, hw Swt 'wly'k ldhyn l ytwq`wn shyy' l'nhu mn Gyr lmjdy twq` shy | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 576e177 | If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 741562d | I go forward slowly, dead, and my vision is no longer mine, it's nothing: it's only the vision of the human animal who, without wanting, inherited Greek culture, Roman order, Christian morality, and all the other illusions that constitute the civilization in which I feel. Where can the living be? | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 6b48838 | I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the sufferings of others I also have for my own. And so all my suffering is crushed under the foot of my disdain. | suffering | Fernando Pessoa | |
| 152acd9 | What matters is to be natural and calm In happiness and in unhappiness, To feel as if feeling were seeing, To think as if thinking were walking, And to remember, when death comes, that each day dies, And the sunset is beautiful, and so is the night that remains . . . That's how it is and how I want it to be . . . | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| ca2d500 | lw 'kwn mDbwTan tmman mthl al@! lw 'mDy Zfran `br lHy@ | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 5b5b19e | The moon is high up in the sky and it's spring. I think of you and within myself I'm complete. A light breeze comes to me from across the hazy fields. I think of you and whisper your name. I'm not I: I'm happy. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 0d3848d | Ser novo e nao ser velho. Ser velho e ter opinioes. Ser novo e nao querer saber de opinioes para nada. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 0a1fc1a | I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love of any soul, if, out of sentiment, we must give it, I might as well lavish it on the smallness of an inkwell as on the grand indifference of the stars. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 6266688 | One needs a certain intellectual courage to recognize unflinchingly that one is no more than a scrap of humanity, a living abortion, a madman not yet crazy enough to be locked up; but, having recognized that, one needs even more spiritual courage to adapt oneself perfectly to one's destiny, to accept without rebellion, without resignation, without a single gesture or attempt at a gesture of protest, the elemental curse nature has laid upon .. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 3a8eeea | And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel like I could kill him for barging in on what I wasn't thinking. I turn around and look at him with a silence full of hatred, tense with latent homicide, my mind already hearing the voice he'll use to tell me something or other. He smiles from the other side of the room and says 'Good afternoon' in a loud voice. I hate him like the universe. My e.. | interruption introvert misanthropy silence | Fernando Pessoa | |
| 4a4c65a | Everything's different from us. That's why everything exists. | being clarity existence god life love meaning paganism pantheism reality seeing truth universe | Alberto Caeiro | |
| 4b95f0e | It's just hard now because... you're jealous. But your heart is so generous and warm, it will melt the bad feelings away." I am 100 percent positive that my mom is the wisest mother in the world." | heart jealous mom mother wise | Jane O'Connor | |
| 8dabd94 | Trusting God when the miracle does not come, when the urgent prayer gets no answer, when there is only darkness--this is the kind of faith God values perhaps most of all. This is the kind of faith that can be developed and displayed only in the midst of difficult circumstances. This is the kind of faith that cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken. Nancy Guthrie, Holding on to Hope | Kara Tippetts | ||
| 806593c | I said, Well, looks like he's pretty ornery. I wonder where he gets it? "Jack just shrugged and kissed my cheek, and then whispered in my ear, He gets it from his mother." | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 2368c9c | To ask another man's blessing is simply to avoid taking the responsibility. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 44f5b68 | Religion makes strange bedfellows. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| a240b9f | I shook my head. 'Killing isn't woman's work,' I said. 'Why not?' she asked. 'We give life, can't we take it too? | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 7e42cd0 | Wyrd bid ful araed. Fate is inexorable. We are given power and we lose it. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| cf61dd7 | But deep under the earth, where the corpse serpent gnaws at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree of life, there are three spinners. Three women who make our fate. We might believe we make choices, but in truth our lives are in the spinners' fingers. They make our lives, and destiny is everything. The Danes know that, and even the Christians know it, Wyrd bio ful araed, we Saxons say, fate is inexorable. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 9748836 | I'm trying to find some piece of myself that is truly me, a part that I would be willing to wear like a jewel around my neck. | A.M. Homes | ||
| 0c5a807 | You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on. | mental-health psychiatry psychology | Norah Vincent | |
| 19ed81b | It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.' The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| e2139dc | Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know. | nefret sarcasm | Elizabeth Peters | |
| 88161eb | What a nice neat deep trench,' I said. 'Er - should Nefret be down in it?' 'She thought she saw a skull,' Ramses said. 'You know how she is about bones. | humor | Elizabeth Peters | |
| 882e1d8 | Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with. | love | Diablo Cody | |
| 6d1dece | All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers. | chimera | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 57f7c2a | She'd been a good nurse, and now she'd never be a nurse again. She was bitter about it and had turned herself into the slut bride from Planet X, as if even in human form, she wanted people to know what she was now: different, other. Trouble was, she looked like a thousand other teens and early twenties who also wanted to be different and stand out. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 459767e | If I don't say it enough, Jean-Claude, I love you, I love seeing your face across the table while we eat, and watching you root at Cynric's football games, and watching you read bedtime stories to Matthew when he stays with us, and a thousand surprising things, all of it, its you, and I love you." "You will make me cry." "A smart friend told me that it's okay to cry, sometimes you're so happy it spills out your eyes." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 2659c6a | Please, Anita, go home, and don't freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard? When Jason said it like that, it didn't seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you .. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 9df0d1c | Senin soyunun gucleri arasinda soyunmayi gerektirmeyen bir sey var mi? Anita Blake s.131 | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 696447c | Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But... maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 1211800 | Remind me never to piss you off ... Are you as good at being a friend as you are an enemy? | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 8ca4cf2 | If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely? | sociopath | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 43ae3d1 | Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| cc3484b | The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian. | episcopalians vampires | Laurell K. Hamilton |