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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b8d3f20 | He recollected his courage. | courageous | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| bca06b3 | He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face | vengeance wrath | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 3edb837 | The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, Help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, Let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| c0ec625 | This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate? | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 86479ea | The workpeople, to be sure, were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| ad5909f | As I looked there came, I thought a change - he seemed to swell - his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter... | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 9ea2e18 | With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 20da4c2 | Half an hour from now, when I shall again and for ever reindue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and fear-struck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace. Will Hyde die upon the scaffold? or will he find the courage to release himself at the last moment? God knows; I am careless; this.. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 5579f37 | To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or temerarious and rushed unwisely in; and how every day and all day long we have transgressed the law of kindness; -it may seem a paradox, but in the bitterness of these discoveries, a certain consolation resides. Life is not designed to minister to a man's vanity. He goes upon his long business .. | death failure | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| b140a8d | I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine? | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 2c93b2c | Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble. | travel | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 5ab418f | with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion. | bravery courage | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 1d1ee4f | It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 56e252f | You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name. No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 9e09ffb | Larry, wouldn't it be a fine thing, a swell thing, a boon to the community of man and to all creatures great and small, if this girl's soul was as ripe and stunning as her ass. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 889a0c0 | if we aren't learning something from a new experience, it's usually because we aren't paying attention. Or we're following the wrong libretto. | Tom Robbins | ||
| d6e7377 | To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy. | life rhythms time | Tom Robbins | |
| 350e9a8 | R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4751b4a | If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment? | Tom Robbins | ||
| f00c29e | Everything that's alvie was born, and everything that was born has got to die. There's no getting around it. It's the law of the universe. "The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken." | Tom Robbins | ||
| fded3a2 | Time brought along its secretary, memory, and space brought its brat, loneliness. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ba44401 | A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. | Tom Robbins | ||
| c2aec7f | If you want to change the world, change yourself. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4867d3c | Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5f32470 | He worked too hard, smiled too little and dined as one indifferent to both flavor and fate; he clearly was a hero in need of rescue by a princess. | Tom Robbins | ||
| beedd19 | How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring? | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5f68cf9 | Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin. | Tom Robbins | ||
| bb0b55d | What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun--which is to say, preserving the human spirit. | still-life-with-woodpecker tom-robbins totalitarianism | Tom Robbins | |
| 30e52f9 | There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you're wondering, is simply this: Everything is connected. . Many, if not most, of the links are difficult to determine. The instrument, the apparatus, the focused ray that can uncover and illuminate those connections is language. | Tom Robbins | ||
| fd68353 | There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ceb6917 | The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life. Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl. | artist magic | Tom Robbins | |
| 19701e5 | Anything can be misused. Furthermore, every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 86cfdfe | Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live. | love philosophy | Harry G. Frankfurt | |
| 1598082 | Daring leaders work to make sure people can be themselves and feel a sense of belonging. | Brené Brown | ||
| 6c2e2dd | What's the most significant barrier to creativity and innovation? Kevin thought about it for a minute and said, "I don't know if it has a name, but honestly, it's the fear of introducing an idea and being ridiculed, laughed at, and belittled." | Brené Brown | ||
| a3ac638 | Here's how I see the progression of my work: The Gifts of Imperfection--Be you. Daring Greatly--Be all in. Rising Strong--Fall. Get up. Try again. | Brené Brown | ||
| c727f81 | Sometimes when we dare to walk into the arena the greatest critic we face is ourselves. | Brené Brown | ||
| b079738 | Folks write down the name of someone who fills them with frustration, disappointment, and/or resentment, and then I propose that their person is doing the best he or she can. The responses have been wide-ranging...One woman said, "If this was true and my mother was doing the best she can, I would be grief-stricken. I'd rather be angry than sad, so it's easier to believe she's letting me down on purpose than grieve the fact that my mother is.. | expectations frustration good-intentions grief resentment | Brené Brown | |
| 79fb17d | who we are' is at least as important as 'what we want to achieve. | Brené Brown | ||
| de32ff1 | Perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life-paralysis. | Brené Brown | ||
| 76d5b23 | Shame can only rise so far in any system before people disengage to protect themselves. When we're disengaged, we don't show up, we don't contribute, and we stop caring. | Brené Brown | ||
| 005ac1d | I think we can all agree that feeling shame is an incredibly painful experience. What we often don't realize is that perpetrating shame is equally as painful, and no one does that with the precision of a partner or a parent. These are the people who know us the best and who bear witness to our vulnerabilities and fears. Thankfully, we can apologize for shaming someone we love, but the truth is that those shaming comments leave marks. And sh.. | shame shaming vulnerability | Brené Brown | |
| 21acfec | Fear of the Dark I've always been prone to worry and anxiety, but after I became a mother, negotiating joy, gratitude, and scarcity felt like a full-time job. For years, my fear of something terrible happening to my children actually prevented me from fully embracing joy and gratitude. Every time I came too close to softening into sheer joyfulness about my children and how much I love them, I'd picture something terrible happening; I'd pict.. | love parenting vulnerability | Brené Brown | |
| 5500a02 | I always felt that someone, a long time ago, organized the affairs of the world into areas that made sense-catagories of stuff that is perfectible, things that fit neatly in perfect bundles. The world of business, for example, is this way-line items, spreadsheets, things that add up, that can be perfected. The legal system-not always perfect, but nonetheless a mind-numbing effort to actually write down all kinds of laws and instructions tha.. | Brené Brown |