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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4371f86 | Rebellion? I don't like hearing such a word from you," Ivan said with feeling. "One cannot live by rebellion, and I want to live. Tell me straight out, I call on you--answer me: imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a8aaf8e | Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret, mysterious sense of our living bond with the other world, with the higher heavenly world, and the roots of our thoughts and feelings are not here but in other worlds. That is why philosophers say it is impossible on earth to conceive the essence of things. God took seeds from other worlds and sowed them on this earth, and raised up his garden; and everythi.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| aed20a5 | Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5154397 | I hope you know that I am listening, should you ever change your mind. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 09a52b9 | I would always rather be happy than dignified.. | jane-eyre | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 99063f4 | There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay." | sheep | Honoré de Balzac | |
| c9d3dcf | So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy. | Sarah Dunant | ||
| e90b6a2 | Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| fe31f9b | The second prong in my revised Trinity is IKEA, the Swedish home store monolith. If you're unfamiliar, they carry every single thing you could possibly ever need to fill your home and garden at low, low prices, but in obscure Swedish sizes so those items won't coordinate with anything else you own, like, say, if you want to put a regular Target lamp shade on your IKEA lamp. Fletch thinks it's Sweden's master plan to make Americans so busy t.. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 3d9c8d8 | Actually, I believe there are only two kinds of women in this world: Martha people and Oprah people. That doesn't mean one can't have an affinity for both of them, but my theory is that every chick is more firmly in one camp than the other. The typical Oprah woman is all self-actualized and best-life-y and Eat, Pray, Love. The Big O seems like the kind of gal who'd insist we all spend the afternoon wearing jammy pants. And how fun would tha.. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 6f48575 | A value is like a fax machine: it's not much use if you're the only one who has one. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| 34c1630 | As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and others who are struggling to understand their own existence. When I talk to them about the need to let supportive people into their lives, I always get a variation of the same answer. "It is not safe. They won't understand." My goal here is to provide a small piece of that gigantic puzzle of understanding. If this book helps som.. | goal mental-health mental-illness mpd multiple-personality-disorder multiplicity normal pain piece psychiatric psychology puzzle safe safety support trauma understanding unsafe | Deborah Bray Haddock | |
| a85e4ea | Ah, jeez... She really is a cheerleader.' And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly into someone else's cause, because she could care so much and try so hard from the sidelines. | cheerleading encouragement | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 38b2b72 | We will not be stupid girls. We will not be powerless girls. We will not be useless girls | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 11c5078 | Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..." He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow. "You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich. "You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?" "Even now," the.. | asking fear forgiveness guilt help kindness love past request | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 3a8e7b3 | want to change history?" Luke made a stab at humor." | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 74c5071 | To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time 'But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known what's going to happen in the future?'" Wait a minute, Jonah thought. I said that. Back at Westminster, with Katherine. Does that mean I'm going to be a famous philosopher in the future? Does that mean I'm going to be revered? There wasn't time to ask." | life philosopher quote revered time time-travel | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 13157aa | Alcoholics are, in truth, failures, and their failure is a simple failure of will. They have made bad choices, and they continue to do so every day. By calling them victims of a disease, we magically shift the burden of the problem from choice and personal control, where it belongs, to an impersonal force--disease. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| aab492b | The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 1cac2fc | The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 42d1f52 | Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| d548d0f | The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindus say, 'traveling the path of existence through thousands of births' ... there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge; no wonder that she is able to recollect... what formerly she knew.... For inquiry and learning is reminiscence all."-Emerson." | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| b9fb5d0 | Forget the past," Sri Yukteswar would console him. "The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now." | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| aa75d32 | Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable." | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 2fed12a | Dharma (cosmic law) aims at the happiness of all creatures. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 51b0574 | The Devil would not have begun by an open and obvious sin to tempt man into doing something which God had forbidden, had not man already begun to seek satisfaction in himself and, consequently, to take pleasure in the words: 'You shall be as Gods.' The promise of these words, however, would much more truly have come to pass if, by obedience, Adam and Eve had kept close to the ultimate and true Source of their being and had not, by pride ima.. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| d6304ea | Quid est tempus? Si nemo me queret, scio; si aliqui explicare velim, nescio. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 22086ac | When men cannot communicate their thoughts to each other, simply because of difference of language, all the similarity of their common human nature is of no avail to unite them in fellowship. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 5bb47d8 | Let the Lord your God be your hope - seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself. | inspirational | Augustine of Hippo | |
| bbbf60f | So anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by his understanding build up this double love of God and neighbor, has not yet succeeded in understanding them. | scripture | Augustine of Hippo | |
| 7f9ab25 | Greed is not a defect in the gold that is desired but in the man who loves it perversely by falling from justice which he ought to esteem as incomparably superior to gold; nor is lust a defect in bodies which are beautiful and pleasing: it is a sin in the soul of the one who loves corporal pleasures perversely, that is, by abandoning that temperance which joins us in spiritual and unblemishable union with realities far more beautiful and pl.. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 59cbad9 | For instantly, as the sentence ended, there was infused in my heart something like the light of full certainty and all the gloom of doubt vanished away. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 487491a | Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery. | self-improvement will | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| e9e1c68 | No longer was he the man who had joined the crowd; he was now one of the crowd he had joined, and a genuine companion of those who had led him there. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| fb375ec | Is truth then a nothing, simply because it is not spread out through space either finite or infinite?" Then from afar you cried to me, "By no means, for ." | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| bc126d6 | Nonetheless the memory of you stayed with me, and I had no doubt whatever whom I ought to cling to, though I knew that I was not yet capable of clinging, because the perishable body weighs down the soul, and its earthly habitation oppresses a mind teeming with thoughts. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 488ce8a | A child's readiness for school depends on the most basic of all knowledge, how to learn. The report lists the seven key ingredients of this crucial capacity--all related to emotional intelligence:6 1. Confidence. A sense of control and mastery of one's body, behavior, and world; the child's sense that he is more likely than not to succeed at what he undertakes, and that adults will be helpful. 2. Curiosity. The sense that finding out about .. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 8b9cefb | People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| def8da6 | Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat. | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| 1fe1775 | Boys are stupid. I needed to explore becoming a lesbian. | Penny Reid | ||
| 3fdb344 | Kaitlyn Parker has popped Martin Sandeke's spooning cherry." I felt his smile grow just before he said, "It's only fair. I hope to pop your forking cherry." | Penny Reid | ||
| d711504 | He lifted a single eyebrow as he adjusted his pants, zipping his fly. The sound made my back stiffen and I realized how close we'd just been to copulating in the back of a car. "I think you look good just like that." I stared at him for two seconds before I smacked him on his infuriatingly well-muscled shoulder. "My shirt is ripped open and..." I frantically twisted in my seat and may have shrieked, "Where are my underwear?!" There was no a.. | Penny Reid | ||
| c6a4223 | Oh, gah! Right in the feels! | Penny Reid | ||
| acbb337 | When we unloaded the last box Vincent surprised me by taking my hand and placing a kiss on my knuckles. His deep chocolate eyes gazed into mine as he spoke with an air of knowing wisdom, "If I ever cheated on my wife I think she'd have cut my balls off. If you don't want to castrate this guy after what he's done then he's not the one for you." he nodded as though affirming the truth of his words." | Penny Reid |