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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 24059b5 | But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 396626e | He told me a story. A man buried his wife. At the gravesite he stood by the Reb, tears falling down his face. "I loved her," he whispered. The Reb nodded. "I mean...I really loved her." The man broke down. "And...I almost told her once." The Reb looked at me sadly. "Nothing haunts like the things we don't say." -- | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0dae1af | As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here. -Morrie | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0dd4ed4 | Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." | Mitch Albom | ||
| ebc3786 | Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well. When they mailed the letter, they wrote a name, a street, a city, a country and they melted wax and sealed the envelope with a signet ring. Sarah had never known a world like that. Speed now trumped the quality of words. A fast send was more imp.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7514e2f | How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you've been standing on for so long, you would stumble if it were yanked away? As Sully sat in his old room, holding the letter, he felt himself lifting off from his bitterness, the way one lifts off in a dream. Elliot Gray, an enemy for so long, was now seen differently, a man forgivable for his mistake. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 04725c2 | To my Charley on his wedding day - ...Here is what you are going to find out about marriage: you have to work at it together. And you have to love three things. You have to love: Each other. Your children (When you have some! Hint! Hint!). Your marriage What I mean by the last one is, there may be times that you fight, and sometimes you and Catherine won't even like each other. But those are the times you have to love your marriage. It's li.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4f7289c | Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses. A drunken man may step off a cliff. That does not make him brave, just forgetful. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 62809d8 | A teacher's shadow can hover for life. | Mitch Albom | ||
| e902639 | Don't be sorry. You're alive. | Mitch Albom | ||
| e2da4f9 | Do not cry for losing blood. Not for something you love. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 9a97670 | Remember this, Francisco," he said. "The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 63f4c47 | Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 99754f6 | He didn't understand depression. To him it was weakness. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b0ccf9d | What is the reason?' 'Finish your journey and you will know. | god inspirational life life-lessons mitch-albom the-timekeeper | Mitch Albom | |
| eb90c5d | How awful a knowledge of the truth can be. | Douglas Preston | ||
| cf73bd0 | Why did you do that, Pedro? It will look ridiculous, you agreeing to marry Rosaura. What happened to the eternal love you swore to Tita? Aren't you going to keep that vow?' 'Of course I'll keep it. When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love, and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?' 'So you intend to marry without love?' 'No, Papa. I am going to marry with a great love for .. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| c17ee62 | Those huge stars have lasted for millions of years by taking care never to absorb any of the fiery rays lovers all over the world send up at them night after night. To avoid that, the star generates so much heat inside itself that it shatters the rays into a thousand pieces. Any look it receives is immediately repulsed, reflected back onto the earth, like a trick done with mirrors. That is the reason the stars shine so brightly at night. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 2b5054c | Hay muchas maneras de poner a secar una caja de cerillos humeda, pero puede estar segura de que tiene remedio | tita | Laura Esquivel | |
| 7c63f39 | Todo se olvida en esta vida, todo pasa al recuerdo, todo acontecimiento deja de ser presente, pierde su valor y su significado. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 72e49c3 | That's why it's important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we're familiar with. If we stay a good distance away from those people, it's easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 19d9c5a | We wear the chains we forge in life, | Richard Russo | ||
| cddeb50 | I don't have a temper!" I snap. And pause. "I'm simply passionate." -- | Emma Hart | ||
| 2f0338e | he thought. | destiny rebirth reincarnation | Kathryn Lasky | |
| 2acd4db | T is not faces, not color, not appearnces that matter. - Soren | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 7a7c0f0 | Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 7ad41d3 | Professor Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld often reflected on how fortunate he was to be exactly who he was, and nobody else. When one paused to think who one might have been had the accident of birth not happened precisely as it did, then, well, one could be quite frankly appalled. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| e73627d | We might more of us say these words to others, and more frequently--how healing that would prove to be. "Look, we've had our differences, but how about some chocolate?" Or: "I'm so sorry: how about some chocolate?" Or simply, "Great to see you! How about some chocolate?" | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| ccc7bc4 | There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, the cars that such people drove tended to be difficult as well. Nice cars have nice drivers; bad cars have bad drivers. A person's gearbox revealed everything that you could want to know about that person, thought Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. | personality | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| b33bda8 | Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing more than coming up with excuses for breaking the diet. Mma Ramotswe was made of sterner stuff than that, and so she persisted. | human-rights humor persisting | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| fccece8 | Remember the Hottentots?" asked James. "They've become the Khoi now, which means that the Germans will have to retire that wonderful word of theirs, Hottentotenpotentatenstantenattentater, which means, as you know, one who attacks the aunt of a Hottentot potentate." -- | humor | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 9357f23 | Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie--they see nothing wrong with it. | liars lies politicians politics sociopaths sociopathy | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 3f511cf | When you are with somebody you love the smallest, smallest things can be so important, so amusing because love transforms the world, everything. And was that what had happened? | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 6b93b4b | We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on. | morality neighbors | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| ac13da4 | Most morality, thought Mma Ramotswe, was about doing the right thing because it had been identified as such by a long process of acceptance and observance. You simply could not create your own morality because your experience would never be enough to do so. What gives you the right to say that you know better than your ancestors? Morality is for everybody and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That wa.. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 6876229 | There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries. | homeland homesick homesickness sad | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 7577d7a | I told him that if a man is born in a dry place, then although he may dream of rain, he does not want too much, and that he will not mind the sun that beats down and down. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| bf6e8b4 | Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma--it just is. | men mma-ramotswe | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 3611aca | Mma Ramotswe had a gift for the American woman, a basket which on her return journey from Bulawayo she had bought, on impulse, from a woman sitting by the side of the road in Francistown. The woman was desperate, and Mma Ramotswe, who did not need a basket, had bought it to help her. It was a traditional Botswana basket, with a design worked into the weaving. "These little marks here are tears," she said. "The giraffe gives its tears to the.. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 31386f2 | People's lives are delicate; you cannot interfere with them without running the risk of changing them profoundly. A chance remark, a careless involvement, may make the difference between a life of happiness and one of sorrow | women-s-strength | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 354c9fd | Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| c336753 | Writers are married to their keyboards, as to their passports. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| 7b8975c | I am warm on the outside, what people see. Warm eyes, warm face, warm fucking fake smile, but inside I am cold all the time, and full of lies. I am not what I seem to be; I am awful. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 21ce183 | You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. | science | Philip K. Dick |