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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8968c0a | Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite.... A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then--the glory--so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose,.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d13bdda | The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, 'Western civilisation' or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation. | John Gray | ||
| 43b5548 | From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia. | despotism philosophy suffering utopia | John Gray | |
| 0dfa52c | How many pages have I produced? I don't care. Are they any good? I don't even think about it. All that matters is I've put in my time and hit it with all I've got. All that counts is that, for this day, for this session, I have overcome Resistance. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 1ee1594 | Many artists are addicts, and vice versa. Many are artists in one breath and addicts in another. What's the difference? The addict is the amateur; the artist is the professional. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 14c3fe4 | What does Resistance feel like? First, unhappiness. We feel like hell. A low-grade misery pervades everything. We're bored, we're restless. We can't get no satisfaction. There's guilt but we can't put our finger on the source. We want to go back to bed; we want to get up and party. We feel unloved and unlovable. We're disgusted. We hate our lives. We hate ourselves. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 1bd0b29 | RESISTANCE AND FEAR Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certa.. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| f81423f | The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn't that the whole point of healing? | Steven Pressfield | ||
| e5eb53e | We're never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The act of courage calls for infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports and sustains us. | muse support sustain | Steven Pressfield | |
| 44786c2 | Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 3e67ce0 | Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 800b424 | The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 6f42840 | Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion. It knows we can't sustain that level of intensity. We will hit the wall. We will crash. The professional, on the other hand, understands delayed gratification. He is the ant, not the grasshopper; the tortoise, not the hare... .. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 04b6c20 | What happens when we turn pro is, we finally listen to that still, small voice inside our heads. At last we find the courage to identify the secret dream or love or bliss that we have known all along was our passion, our calling, our destiny. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| c9ad7a3 | Cool wind soothed her. She could breathe sweet air. The only heat she felt was the warm, familiar heat from the mage's body. Opening her eyes, she saw that she stood close to him. Raising her head, she gazed up into his face...and felt a swift, sharp ache in her heart. | raistlin | Margaret Weis | |
| 51b138e | He could hear himself screaming and he knew it was his death cry. Still he fought on, as he had fought all his life. I...will...control... The words came from his mouth, stained with his blood... I will control... | Margaret Weis | ||
| 58a88d8 | A chill penetrating wail of outrage screamed up from the depts of the Abyss. So loud and horrifying was it that all the citizens of Palanthas woke shruddering from even the deepest sleep and lay in their beds, paralyzed by fear, waiting for the end of the world. The guards on the the city walls could move neither hand nor foot. Shutting their eyes, they cowered in shadows, awaiting death. Babies wimpered in fear, dogs cringed and slunk bene.. | Margaret Weis | ||
| 098fc24 | Tanis blinked with disbelief, then he heard a sound behind him that nearly made him leap into a tree in panic. He whirled around, heart in his throat, sword in his hand. Raistlin was laughing. | Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman | ||
| 2e589db | The magic will not solve your problems. It will only add to them. The magic will not make people like you. It will increase their distrust. The magic will not ease your pain. It will twist and burn inside you until sometimes you think that even death would be preferable." -Antimodes, "Soulforge" | Margaret Weis | ||
| cf476f0 | Shuddering Tanis stepped back. Raistlin gave the drawstring on the top of the bag a quick jerk, snapping it shut. Then, glancing at them distrustfully, he slipped the bag within his robes, secreting it in one of his numerous hidden pockets, and begun to turn away. But Tanis stopped him. "Things can never again be the same between us, can they?" the half-elf asked quietly. | Margaret Weis | ||
| 7cc8b21 | Uh, Lunitaris idish, shirak, damen du! | fantasy magic | Margaret Weis | |
| f318620 | Elves never make any major decision until they have thought the matter over for at least a year or two, gone round to all their friends and relatives and discussed the problem, done research, read tomes, consulted the sages. | elves kitiara tanis | Margaret Weis | |
| ed841eb | Town of the Dragon Vein If you wake up too early listen for it. A sort of inverted whistling the sound of sound. Being withdrawn after all where? Does all the sound in the world. Come from day after day? From mountains but. They have to give it back. At night just. As your nightly dreams. Are taps. Open reversely. In. To. Time. | Anne Carson | ||
| a73814c | Beauty makes me hopeless. I don't care why anymore I just want to get away. When I look at the city of Paris I long to wrap my legs around it. When I watch you dancing there is a heartless immensity like a sailor in a dead-calm sea. Desires as round as peaches bloom in me all night, I no longer gather what falls. | Anne Carson | ||
| 3af2601 | It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself. | Anne Carson | ||
| 1b0c465 | Geryon was a monster everything about him was red | Anne Carson | ||
| 5c8d84b | It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough. | introduction | Anne Carson | |
| 31959ae | To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. | Anne Carson | ||
| 230c576 | I'm just a man, no more enlightened than any other. | George P. Pelecanos | ||
| 844d6b9 | It is no good telling yourself that one day you will wish you had never made that change; it is no good anticipating regrets. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday. | Beryl Markham | ||
| 8bf3638 | There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. | Beryl Markham | ||
| 2c777b0 | He knows that there will be days ahead, long, tedious days which have no real beginning or ending, but which run together into night and out of it without changing color, or sound, or meaning. He will lie in his bed feeling the minutes and the hours pass through his body like an endless ribbon of pain because time becomes pain then. Light and darkness become pain; all his senses exist only to receive it, to transmit to his mind again and ag.. | death malaria | Beryl Markham | |
| 70c6d9d | Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance. | greatness humility | Beryl Markham | |
| f7eec1e | It is amazing what a lot of insect life goes on under your nose when you have got it an inch from the earth. I suppose it goes on in any case, but if you are proceeding on your stomach, dragging your body along by your fingernails, entomology presents itself very forcibly as a thoroughly justified science. | Beryl Markham | ||
| fa3b1a7 | Es curioso, pero vivir consiste en construir futuros recuerdos. | curiosidad curioso futuro recuerdos vivir | Ernesto Sabato | |
| a082d9f | El hombre se expresa para llegar a los demas, para salir del cautiverio de su soledad. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 8fe83c4 | Crima si pedeapsa" care, la cincisprezece ani imi paruse un roman politist, am crezut-o mai apoi un extraordinar roman psihologic, pana cand, in final, am descoprit fondul celui mai mare roman scris vreodata despre eterna problema a vinii si a mantuirii." | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| f0bc7be | yjb 'n '`trf lan b'ny 'sh`r bl'sf l'nny `ndm knt Hr lm 'Hsn Gtnm lfrS@ , f'qtl st@ 'w sb`@ mn l'shkhS ldhyn '`rfhm. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 03c1c19 | Bullshit. We belong together." Echo sniffed and the sound tore at me. I softened my voice."Look at me, baby. I know you love me. Three nights ago you were willing to offer everything to me. There is no way you can walk away from us." | Katie McGarry | ||
| a97c81b | From a shamanic perspective, the psychic blockade that prevents otherwise intelligent adults from considering the future of our world - our obvious lack of future, if we continue on our present path - reveals an occult dimension. It is like a programming error written into the software designed for the modern mind, which has endless energy to spend on the trivial and treacly, sports statistic or shoe sale, but no time to spare for the torme.. | Daniel Pinchbeck | ||
| c68a3d6 | How you doing at 26 Fed?" "I'm growing and learning, meeting new challenges with confidence and enthusiasm while developing good work ethics and people skills." "I'm surprised they haven't fired your ass." "Me too." | Nelson DeMille | ||
| d6ec7c4 | The window on the right featured contemporary bestselling authors like Brad Meltzer, James Patterson, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, and others who make more money writing about what I do than I make doing what I do. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| eddf8f1 | I'm all mixed up inside. It's like--I don't know--like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I'm fine, and the next I'm losing it. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 725eddc | her stories make you believe in the power of love | Catherine Anderson |