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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3fc6d7d | It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion. To push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward. To keep moving on . . . | life | Philip K. Dick | |
| f41ae43 | The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. This is done in politics, in psychotherapy. | frame-of-reference influence oppression phenomenology power | Philip K. Dick | |
| ea4e42a | And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I saw here. And not even fear: much worse. Absolute dread. Paralyzing dread so great as to produce apathy. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 877df25 | I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the first realization) that another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. | mental-illness words-have-power | Philip K. Dick | |
| c7e7b8b | Las formas primitivas deben de llevar una vida residual, invisible, en cada objeto, medito Joe. El pasado esta latente, sumergido, pero sigue ahi y puede aflorar a la superficie tan pronto desaparezcan, por cualquier desafortunado motivo y contra lo que nos ensena la experiencia diaria, las caracteristicas del objeto ultimo, mas tardio. El hombre no contiene al muchacho, sino a los hombres que lo precedieron. La historia empezo hace mucho. | experiencia historia | Philip K. Dick | |
| aa9ee90 | It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that's what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: | Philip K. Dick | ||
| ea0a0f9 | Everything wears out eventually; nothing is permanent. Change is the one constant of life. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 6efc0b9 | I have never yielded to reality. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0bf1617 | On one hand she seems so agile, so athletic, and yet I've seen her appear so awkward that it embarrassed me. She gives the impression of a hard, worldly adroitness, and in some situations she's like an adolescent: rigid with ancient, middle class attitudes, unable to think for herself, falling back on old verities...victim of her family teaching, shocked by what shocks people, wanting what people usually want. She wants a home, a husband, a.. | lifestyle | Philip K. Dick | |
| a9e7683 | What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 94fa9b0 | Also, I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue--the clue--lies there. I'm always ferreting out elliptical points, odd angles. What I write doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There is fun and religion and psychotic horror strewn about like a bunch of hats. Also, there is a social or sociological drift--rather than toward the hard sciences, the overall impression is childish but interesting. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 14ad69a | The view reminded of the Haitain proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains" which meant that when you'd solved one problem, you couldn't rest because you had to go on and solve the next." | Tracy Kidder | ||
| f804c6f | In the 1860s the leaders of the cotton belt made one of the most prodigious miscalculations in recorded history. On the eve of the era of applied technologies, in which more and more work is done with fewer people and less effort, they made war to preserve the day of chattel slavery - the era of gang labor, with its reliance on the same use of human muscles that built the pyramids. The lost cause was lost before it started to fight. Inabili.. | Bruce Catton | ||
| a4e0bd1 | While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 3b9e716 | The rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer, small farmers were being squeezed out, workingmen were working twelve hours a day for a bare living; profits were for the rich, the law was for the rich, the cops were for the rich; | John Dos Passos | ||
| 4c1ff7d | One phrase stuck in Fainy's mind, and he repeated it to himself after he had gone to bed that night: It is time for all honest men to band together to resist the ravages of greedy privilege. | John Dos Passos | ||
| c2463dd | m '`dhb ls`d@ f~ hdhh ldny | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 08951c0 | l`l nfsk '`rDt `n kl shy Zm' llHb,Hb fy lHb,twq lnshw@ lkhlq l'wly,lly'dh@ bsr 'srr lHy@,lty khrjt mn Sr` mlywn sn@ bnbt@ bhr@ mdhhl@. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 1506d1c | hl tDy` laml lywm km D`t bl'ms ? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 3f3ad2d | A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life. | religion | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| a757e8f | lnbl 'n n`ysh km ynbGy ln dwn 'ml | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 8f08d58 | l jdw~ mn qrr ytkhdh Dd tyr lHy@,lms'l@ h~ kyf ymDy ltTwr b'kbr fy'd@ w'ql khsr@ | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 7ec302b | The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 228327d | ybdw l~ 'n llqlb bSr dh shtd tfrsh GT~ `l~ bSr l'`yn fynqlb lnsn '`m~ w hw bSyr | heart | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| 25b4a16 | ljmy` yshkw wm mn fy'd@ trj~ mn ltGyyr fqn`y bm qsm lk | القناعة | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| c55c80d | wqd sh kthyran 'n yr~ sm Hyth Gy'm@ blmshklt lmu`lWaq@ lty tstwjb lHlwl thm l yjd lrd@ lty tHlh | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| b18d50f | mn 'n 'ts'lyn mn 'n 'n SHb l`yn lt~ y`rfh kl shbr fy ky'nk | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 33d9743 | love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs. | simile | Naguib Mahfouz | |
| f74b93c | ykhyl lyW 'nk tDyq bhdhh lwHd@ 'Hynan. - s'jd dy'man `llan llDyq, lwHd@ 'w Gyrh. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 573a9bc | Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you. | france historical-fiction historical-romance southern | Nancy B. Brewer | |
| ca299f6 | Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. | childhood-trauma father forgiveness-quotes frances-mayes memoir southern southerners | Frances Mayes | |
| 69382e1 | The Student" "In America," began the lecturer, "everyone must have a degree. The French do not think that all can have it, they don't say everyone must go to college." We incline to feel, here, that although it may be unnecessary to know fifteen languages. one degree is not too much. With us, a school--like the singing tree of which the leaves were mouths that sang in concert-- is both a tree of knowledge and of liberty-- seen in the un.. | Marianne Moore | ||
| c6819cb | I think he overlook a phase: that empathy stage in our lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to meet and hardships to bear, joined with us in the mystery of life and death--and frankly, for all of our more exalted endowments, not all that much less enlightened than the sagest of naked apes about the meaning of it all. That kinship is to me reason enough to go abou.. | Matthew Scully | ||
| d38c4a9 | I feel like I'm forgetting something. Vyrus. Clans. Zombies. Stay out of the sun. Don't get shot. Abandon your life. Drink blood to survive. No, guess that pretty much covers it. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 377c2a6 | In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not. C. S. Lewis | Randy Alcorn | ||
| dc098a7 | Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse. | affluenza child-abuse materialism | Randy Alcorn | |
| 828c307 | What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer--they are previews of the greater life to come. | Randy Alcorn | ||
| 3ad241e | What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography. | legacy resources stewardship | Randy Alcorn | |
| 3d87636 | No, the burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6c3307d | In Dwimordene,in Lorien Seldom have walked the feet of Men, Few mortal eyes have seen the light That lies there ever,long and bright. Galadriel!Galadriel! Clear is the water of your well; White is the star in your white hand; Unmarred,unstained is leaf and land In Dwimordene,in Lorien More fair than thoughts of Mortal Men. | j-r-r-tolkien the-two-towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5a3700e | The windows of his house shone in the darkness like squares of melting butter. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 53cd87f | There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 6e497fb | She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing of bereaved parents. She had seen, when she entered the kitchen, the chasm of sorrow that divided man and wife already, each deep in their own wretched suffering, neither knowing what to say to the other. She knew that to begin to talk about what had happened was a key to acknowledging their loss, and that such ac.. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 35752d2 | Never judge a journey by the distance... | Jacqueline Winspear |