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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fdbfad2 | The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action. | George Plimpton | ||
| 233b7bb | to Alexander the Great, who wept when there were no more worlds to conquer... | Stanley Bing | ||
| b79e37f | Love is a crowded theater, for as Harold Bloom remarks, "We can never embrace (sexually or otherwise) a single person, but embrace the whole of her or his family romance." | Camille Paglia | ||
| f091e65 | Originality must compound with inheritance. | grace-of-god heritage identity innovation legacy parenthood | Harold Bloom | |
| 01e5ab2 | At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. | individuality | Harold Bloom | |
| e7441ba | We'll try this first. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else. That's life, isn't it? | Harold Bloom | ||
| b429ee9 | Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God. | wallace-stevens weather | Harold Bloom | |
| 4ba5666 | I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works. | literary-criticism poetry | Harold Bloom | |
| b217bcb | We are great fools. "He has spent his life in idleness," we say; "I have done nothing today." What, have you not lived? That is not only the most fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations. . . . To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately." | Harold Bloom | ||
| 56660ba | Remind yourself daily that there is no way to happiness; rather, happiness is the way. You may have a long list of goals that you believe will provide you with contentment when they're achieved, yet if you examine your state of happiness in this moment, you'll notice that the fulfillment of some previous ambitions didn't create an enduring sense of joy. Desires can produce anxiety, stress, and competitiveness, and you need to recognize thos.. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| afd603b | Rather than looking for miracles, shift to seeing everything as miraculous. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| f7fd45e | ndm tqwm blHkm `l~ shkhS akhr , f'nt l tqwm bt`ryfh , bl t`ryf nfsk | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 3f4bdba | I think Khalil Gibran stated it perfectly in The Prophet: "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you." | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 2618302 | Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi." | Kate Elliott | ||
| c9eebd5 | Eavesdropping's sort of thrilling 'cause you learn what people really think, but eavesdropping makes you miserable for exactly the same reason. | David Mitchell | ||
| a9783d1 | Detective Virgil and Barlow [bomb-technician] arranged to meet at the Starbucks. Virgil got a grande hot chocolate, no-fat milk, no foam, no whipped cream, and Barlow got a venti latte with an extra shot. As they took a corner table, Virgil said, "Remind me not to stand next to you if you're handling a bomb. That much caffeine, you gotta be shakin' like a hundred-dollar belly dancer." "At least I'm not drinking like a little girl," Barlow s.. | John Sandford | ||
| 6032087 | The press conference was held in a courtroom at the new county courthouse, a space that did its best to translate justice into laminated wood. | John Sandford | ||
| 16b67f5 | Does Raggedy Ann have a cotton crotch? | John Sandford | ||
| fdad1c0 | The greatest of all riches is education | Jean Sasson | ||
| c76c9f7 | The important thing was that we were alive... | Henri Charrière | ||
| 619d8fe | He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.' ~pg 139 | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9fdd8f2 | How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you've been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away? | faith heaven inspirational-quotes letting-go love moving-on | Mitch Albom | |
| eaa47e3 | Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0efd712 | All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. | Mitch Albom | ||
| d932a5f | With Marguerite, he wanted only time--more and more time--and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again. | Mitch Albom | ||
| cfea8b9 | No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you. | life | Mitch Albom | |
| 8cd58cc | Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 928b8cd | Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. | demise final-project research | Mitch Albom | |
| 416f4b7 | A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with "time" as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 8683477 | Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another. | Mitch Albom | ||
| dad7019 | The carnivals gave me my names, Edward. Sometimes I was the Blue Man of the North Pole, or the Blue Man of Algeria, or the Blue Man of New Zealand. I had never been to any of these places, of course, but it was pleasant to be considered exotic, if only on a painted sign. The 'show' was simple. I would sit on the stage, half undressed, as people walked past and the barker told them how pathetic I was. For this, I was able to put a few coins .. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0353f2a | You were never alone. | Mitch Albom | ||
| e3ef28d | A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 30585d2 | But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain, they cry, they yearn, they they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they looked up, which is what I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your o.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7d93963 | Sacrifice," The Captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father." | Mitch Albom | ||
| c2d9faa | It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4d15376 | Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 039108f | The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all. | Mitch Albom | ||
| e0a08ad | If we love something and somebody so much, how much--if at all--are they ever really gone from our hearts? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 44db8d2 | Life goes quickly, doesn't it, Charley?" "Yeah," I mumbled. "It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it." | Mitch Albom | ||
| b0e838c | I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9831a5b | I meant no disrespect. It's just that I had always felt that rabbis, priests, pastors, any cleric, really, lived on a plane between mortal ground and heavenly sky. God up there. Us down here. Them in between. | mitch-albom | Mitch Albom | |
| dd9093f | No act done for someone else is ever wasted. | Mitch Albom | ||
| fc3407f | But just because you have silenced a memory does not mean you are free of it. | Mitch Albom |