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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f70d0ba | I'm falling for you, but I don't want to. | Katie McGarry | ||
| b571a89 | Don't let your fears create walls or define you. | Katie McGarry | ||
| d17f5d8 | Last night, the two of us said too much, felt too much, and I had somehow convinced myself that the moment we shared would remain that-a moment. But it didn't; the emotions between us linger and I don't know what that means. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 98b5ca4 | Amazing things are going to happen because that's what happens when you find your wings and finally fly. | Katie McGarry | ||
| c063783 | Losing someone you love, it'd be similar to losing your home. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 7bd44f7 | A burning heat warmed my blood. It was a slow kiss at first--all I meant it to be, but then Echo touched me. Her hands on my face, in my hair. And then she angled her body to mine. Warmth, enticing pressure on all the right parts, and Echo's lips on mine--fireworks. She became my world. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 661d31d | as I attempt to release her, she squeezes my hand and offers a shy smile. Something within me shifts. No, I don't get nervous, but Brenna transports me to all sorts of new places. It's not her physical proximity getting to me, it's the fact that she makes me feel. | Katie McGarry | ||
| d4e485f | As much as you want to, you can't take all our pain away. Hurting, it's a part of life, and if you try to stop any of us from being in pain, that means you're not allowing us to actually live. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 0413d44 | Her green eyes shone when i asked questions and she gave me the siren smile each time i clued in. That smile only made me want to learn more. | Katie McGarry | ||
| a53ed96 | Guess that makes me a cheater, huh?" "No, it means you have a brother who cared." | Katie McGarry | ||
| 505d79e | I learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 73951cb | The Shah stayed on the throne until 1979, when he fled Iran to escape the Islamic revolution. Since then, this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. As an Iranian who has lived more than half of my life in Iran, I know that this image is far from the truth. This is why writing "Persepolis" was so important to me. I believe that an entire nation should not be judged.. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| fdc9c46 | I wanted to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 55d4cb3 | I wanted to be JUSTICE, LOVE, and the WRATH OF GOD all in one. | love wrath-of-god | Marjane Satrapi | |
| 653c6ab | I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 47c8bbe | Non si ha il diritto di autocompatirsi finche i propri problemi sono ancora accettabili... E quando invece non lo sono piu, il solo modo di sopportare l'insopportabile e di riderci sopra. | resilienza vita | Marjane Satrapi | |
| 982203e | If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. - If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. - Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. - Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives | Robert Kurson | ||
| de43130 | A man's library opens up his character to the world. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 83b7c25 | Chew on this: the man who truly loves you will be willing to pay the price for you, like the merchant "who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it" (Matthew 13:46 KJV). He'll sell worldly ideas about sex before marriage, other women he's kept on reserve...you name it, he'll get rid of it, in order to be in position to win you! Jesus paid the price to redeem you. How much more should a mortal.. | Michelle McKinney Hammond | ||
| 21bf252 | MY PEACE is the treasure of treasures: the pearl of great price. It is an exquisitely costly gift, both for the Giver and the receiver. I purchased this Peace for you with My blood. You receive this gift by trusting Me in the midst of life's storms. If you have the world's peace--everything going your way--you don't seek My unfathomable Peace. Thank Me when things do not go your way, because spiritual blessings come wrapped in trials. Adver.. | Sarah Young | ||
| d7833f8 | When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 49dc599 | Your voice is the wildest thing you own," Brooke says to me. "And you're giving it away. You can't see it. Your obsession is blinding you." He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. "You're losing yourself." | losing-self voice | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| fa7494a | Iain took hold of both her hands and squeezed to get her attention. Then he took a deep breath. Even with his men watching, he wanted the words to be right, his declaration to be one she would always remember. It was a damned awkward undertaking, trying to think of loving words, and he had absolutely no experience in this area, but he was still determined not to muck it up. The moment needed to be perfect for her. "Judith," he began. "Yes, .. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 113598b | Why? Why did you do this to me?" "He's going to come after me. He won't just kill me. He'll go after you, too." "That's right, He can't take the chance. I didn't tell you about it...why?" He repeated on a sob? "Why did you-" | Julie Garwood | ||
| d0f6d52 | Harrison had started out worried that Corrie would shoot Mary Rose because the woman was as crazy as everyone said she was, but by the time the one- sided conversation was finished, his concern had changed. Now he couldn't figure out why Corrie didn't shoot her just to shut her up. | Julie Garwood | ||
| ebf3fe9 | I'm a doctor," she reminded him. "Nothing embarrasses me." "Yeah? So if I call the hospital while you're making rounds, you won't be embarrassed when I have the operator page Dr. Smarty-pants?" | Julie Garwood | ||
| 7ac9b16 | She was the love of his life. "Hell." | Julie Garwood | ||
| cd448cd | Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision. Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| f5f1a70 | Agitation gives birth to creation. | birth creation | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 27802f1 | A little leavening of dissatisfied temper will spread through a group and change outlooks. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 9ae051f | The other wives and I talked together one night about the possibility of becoming widows. What would we do? God gave us peace of heart, and confidence that whatever might happen, His Word would hold. We knew that 'when He Putteth forth His sheep, He goeth before them.' God's leading was unmistakable up to this point. Each of us knew when we married our husbands that there would never be any question about who came first -- God and His work .. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 10466a1 | Large portraits of Mao on wooden boards several feet high stood at main street corners. Painted to make the old man look extremely youthful, healthy, and fat (a sign of well-being in China), these pictures provided a mocking contrast to the thin, pale-faced pedestrians walking listlessly below them. Pg. 193 | cultural-revolution mao-zedong propaganda | Nien Cheng | |
| db1f317 | One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Party's demand that people inform on each other routinely and denounce each other during political campaigns. This practice had a profoundly destructive effect on human relationships. Husbands and wives became guarded with each other, and parents were alienated from their children. The practice inhibited all forms of human contact, so that people no lo.. | communism cultural-revolution mao | Nien Cheng | |
| 380c3e6 | I am accused of mysticism. I do not, however, hold myself responsible for the fact that man has, everywhere and always, spontaneously developed religious forms of expression, and that the human psyche from time immemorial has been shot through with religious feelings and ideas. Whoever cannot see this aspect of the human psyche is blind, and whoever chooses to explain it away, or to "enlighten" it away, has no sense of reality." | C.G. Jung | ||
| 4012582 | Scientific education is based in the main on statistical truths and abstract knowledge and therefore imparts an unrealistic, rational picture of the world, in which the individual, as a merely marginal phenomenon, plays no role. The individual, however, as an irrational datum, is the true and authentic carrier of reality, the concrete man as opposed to the unreal ideal or "normal" man to whom the scientific statements refer." | C.G. Jung | ||
| 1d7bcb7 | Words like "Society" and "State" are so concretized that they are almost personified. In the opinion of the man in the street, the "State," far more than any king in history, is the inexhaustible giver of all good; the "State" is invoked, made responsible, grumbled at, and so on and so forth. Society is elevated to the rank of a supreme ethical principle; indeed, it is even credited with positively creative capacities." | C.G. Jung | ||
| 97fa41f | Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 23e54b3 | Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilization. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organization disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their insti.. | C.G. Jung | ||
| eaf8225 | When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim. | gods humor jung | C.G. Jung | |
| 852bd52 | The psyche is a self-regulating system that maintains itself in equilibrium as the body does. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 879b094 | it is of the greatest importance that the ego should be anchored in the world of consciousness and that consciousness should be reinforced by a very precise adaptation. For this, certain virtues like attention, conscientiousness, patience, etc., are of great value on the moral side, just as accurate observation of the symptomatology of the unconscious and objective selfcriticism are valuable on the intellectual side. | C.G. Jung | ||
| e2d8a14 | Taking responsibility for yourself and your happiness gives a great freedom to children who have felt guilty and responsible for your unhappiness (which they always do). A child can never hope to balance the scales or repay the debt when a parent has sacrificed her life, her happiness, her fulfilment for the child or the family. Seeing a parent fully embrace life gives a child the permission to do the same, just as seeing a parent suffer in.. | Robin Norwood | ||
| b0595cd | It requires a hard look at what is, rather than what you hope will be. As you let go of managing and controlling, you must also let go of the idea that "when he changes I'll be happy." He may never change. You must stop trying to make him. And you must learn to be happy anyway." | Robin Norwood | ||
| d9d37bd | This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong. | Bill Bryson |