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| 0ff765a | Everything that was not so must go. All the beautiful literary lies and flights of fancy must be shot in mid-air! So they lined them up against a library wall one Sunday morning thirty years ago, in 2006; they lined them up, St. Nicholas and the Headless Horseman and Snow White and Rumpelstiltskin and Mother Goose--oh, what a wailing!--and shot them down, and burned the paper castles and the fairy frogs and old kings and the people who live.. | fairy-tales | Ray Bradbury | |
| b482cca | But, stop and think. What does the word 'witch' truly mean?" "Why--" said Tom, and was stymied. "Wits," said Moundshroud. "Intelligence. That's all it means. Knowledge. So any man, or woman, with half a brain and with inclinations toward learning had his wits about him, eh? And so, anyone too smart, who didn't watch out, was called--" "A witch!" said everyone. "And some of the smart ones, the ones with wits, pretended at magic, or dreamed t.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a6f1ce5 | The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary b.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8bb2841 | The multicolored or grey lights touching their faces, but never really touching them... | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 20aba22 | Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 27261a3 | No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns. | clouds echoes electric forgotten long lost made once recapture sad sound summers sweet trapped truly wars | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9a46e8f | But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing. | fahrenheit-451 life life-goes-on mgg perserverence ray-bradbury | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9c48dfd | I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all." | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c2a6ede | The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| b81ad50 | Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons. | quiet summer thoughts | Ray Bradbury | |
| f5c76c2 | God bless the lawn mower, he thought. Who was the fool who made January first New Year's Day? No, they should set a man to watch the grasses across a million Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa lawns, and on that morning when it was long enough for cutting, instead of ratchets and horns and yelling, there should be a great swelling symphony of lawn mowers reaping fresh grass upon the prairie lands. Instead of confetti and serpentine, people should thr.. | lawnmower new-year-s-day philosophical | Ray Bradbury | |
| 9e1cd15 | The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 12e33d7 | The odors of perfume were fanned out on the summer air by the whirling vents of the grottoes where the women hid like undersea creatures, under electric cones, their hair curled into wild whorls and peaks, their eyes shrewd and glassy, animal and sly, their mouths painted a neon red. | hairstyles hairstyling make-up perfume salons women | Ray Bradbury | |
| 7b2952e | Who wants to see the Future, who does? A man can face the Past, but to think- the pillars , you say? And the sea empty, and the canals dry, and the maidens dead, and the flowers withered? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| be67685 | Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin. | ray-bradbury sin truth | Ray Bradbury | |
| 332a21f | After all, once a time was over, it was done. You were always in the present. // Pictures? No, they lie. You're not the picture. My dear, you're not the dates, or the ink, or the paper. You're not these trunks of junk and dust. You're only you, here, now--the present you. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 877d5e4 | The sperm whales' network of female-based family unit resembled, to a remarkable extent, the community the whalemen had left back home on Nantucket. In both societies the males were itinerants. In their dedication to killing sperm whales the Nantucketers had developed a system of social relationships that mimicked those of their prey. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| fb19c4e | The more we become sensitive to our own journey the more we realize that we are leaving and coming back every day, every hour. Our minds wander away but eventually return; our hearts leave in search of affection and return sometimes broken; our bodies get carried away in their desires then sooner or later return. It's never one dramatic life moment but a constant series of departures and returns. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 9aab03d | To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives--the good as well as the bad, the moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow, the successes as well as the failures, the rewards as well as the rejections--that requires hard spiritual work. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| eedafe8 | Unlike a fairy tale, the parable provides no happy ending. Instead, it leaves us face to face with one of life's hardest spiritual choices: to trust or not to trust in God's all-forgiving love. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 12a5c7c | If it is true that we not only are the Beloved, but also have to become the Beloved; if it is true that we not only are children of God, but also have to become children of God; if it is true that we not only are brothers and sisters, but also have to become brothers and sisters . . . if all that is true, how then can we get a grip on this process of becoming? If the spiritual life is not simply a way of being, but also a way of becoming, w.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 113ff74 | What does it mean to care? Let me start by saying that the word care has become a very ambivalent word. When someone says: 'I will take care of him!' it is more likely an announcement of an impending attack than of a tender compassion. And besides this ambivalence, the word is most often used in a negative way. 'Do you want coffee or tea?' 'I don't care.' 'Do you want to stay home or go to a movie?' 'I don't care.' 'Do you want to walk or g.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| de68a00 | Every time you close another door--be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection--you commit yourself to go deeper into your heart and thus deeper into the heart of God. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 0b81d8e | death is not the total dissolution or our identity but the way to its fullest revelation. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 5e453cd | Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated, as Thomas Merton says, by social compulsions. 'Compulsive' is indeed the best adjective for the false self. It points to the need for ongoing and increasing affirmation. Who am I? I am the one who is liked, praised, admired, disliked, hated or despised. Whether I am a pianist, a businessman or a minister, what ma.. | perception self-esteem self-perception worldliness | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| da98989 | Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 996c146 | The word "Eucharist" means literally "act of thanksgiving." To celebrate the Eucharist and to live a Eucharistic life has everything to do with gratitude. Living Eucharistically is living life as a gift, a gift for which one is grateful. But gratitude is not the most obvious response to life, certainly not when we experience life as a series of losses! Still, the great mystery we celebrate in the Eucharist and live in a Eucharistic life is .. | gratitude | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 9c54218 | You have an idea what the new country looks like. Still, you are very much at home, although not truly at peace, in the old country. You know the ways of the old country, it's joys and pains, its happy and sad moments. You have spent most of your days there. Even though you know that you have not found there what your heart most desires, you remain quite attached to it. It has become part of your very bones. Now you have come to realize tha.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 30ded56 | I have also learned to catch the darkness early, not to allow sadness to grow into depression or let a sense of being rejected develop into a feeling of abandonment. Even in the renewed and deepened friendship, I feel the freedom to point to the little clouds and ask for help in letting them pass by. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 225826c | birthdays need to be celebrated. i think it is more important to celebrate a birthday than a successful exam or promotion or a victory. because to celebrate a birthday means to say to someone "thank you for being you"." | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 9c28726 | every Christian is constantly invited to overcome his neighbor's fear by entering into it with him, and to find in the fellowship of suffering the way to freedom. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 3cf113c | There is a great difference between successfulness and fruitfulness. Success comes from strength, control, and respectability. A successful person has the energy to create something, to keep control over its development, and to make it available in large quantities. Success brings many rewards and often fame. Fruits, however, come from weakness and vulnerability. And fruits are unique. A child is the fruit conceived in vulnerability, commun.. | fruitfulness success vulnerability-intimacy | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| d86f06b | Not being welcome is your greatest fear. It connects with your birth fear, your fear of not being welcome in this life, and your death fear, your fear of not being welcome in the life after this. It is the deep-seated fear that it would have been better if you had not lived. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 19c3a77 | It seems to me that poverty is an eyeglass through which one may see his true friends. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| d6cd7c8 | You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you. | David Allen | ||
| 5e1b70c | Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. --Dee Hock | David Allen | ||
| 34d11b8 | The beginning is half of every action. | David Allen | ||
| 4a189e8 | Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined. | David Allen | ||
| 00b6725 | The reason is that good management itself was the root cause. Managers played the game the way it was supposed to be played. The very decision-making and resource-allocation processes that are key to the success of established companies are the very processes that reject disruptive technologies: listening carefully to customers; tracking competitors' actions carefully; and investing resources to design and build higher-performance, higher-q.. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 97e68b2 | In fact, how you allocate your own resources can make your life turn out to be exactly as you hope or very different from what you intend. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| fc54f8e | Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is. | heaven kisses | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| eb6704a | And he knew that he would never come again, and that lost magic would not come again. Lost now was all of it-the street, the heat, King's Highway, and Tom the Piper's son, all mixed in with the vast and drowsy murmur of the Fair, and with the sense of absence in the afternoon, and the house that waited, and the child that dreamed. And out of the enchanted wood, that thicket of man's memory, Eugene knew that the dark eye and the quiet face o.. | Thomas Wolfe | ||
| 71fa4eb | Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 15f0022 | One day [Kahn] walked into a classroom and began a lecture with the words: "Light ... is." There followed a pause that seemed seven days long, just long enough to re-create the world." | Tom Wolfe |