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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6c071cb | I had a horrible sense of loss for who I had been and where I had been. It was difficult to give up the high flights of mind and mood, even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 586c031 | nqlan `n Kay Redfield Jamison "n lkty'b mrD yujbr lnsn `l~ ltwqf wt'ml Hyth wlnZr l~ '`mqh nZr@ wjwdy@ mlyy'@ bltsw'lt `n mhy@ lHy@ wlhdf mn lwjwd" S 155" | الهدفية التأمل التساؤل الوجود | Lewis Wolpert | |
| 7a1bd31 | The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 63f6672 | We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds... But love is, to me, the ultimately more extraordinary part of the breakwater wall: it helps to shut out the terror and awfulness, while, at the same time, allowing in life and beauty and vitality. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 52292a2 | What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away. | Carolyn Meyer | ||
| 9a57bc1 | Timing accounted for forty-two percent of the difference between success and failure. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| e767c60 | Regardless of their reciprocity styles, people love to be asked for advice. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 0e2984a | If originals aren't reliable judges of the quality of their ideas, how do they maximize their odds of creating a masterpiece? They come up with a large number of ideas. Simonton finds that on average, creative geniuses weren't qualitatively better in their fields than their peers. They simply produced a greater volume of work, which gave them more variation and a higher chance of originality. "The odds of producing an influential or success.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 0a586af | joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could be. Now her life seemed to have opened up into it as if it had been waiting for her. (215) | Andre Dubus III | ||
| b908d56 | Its sound in her soul was a distant fast train. Love did not bring happiness, it did not last, and it ended in pain. She did not want to believe this, and she was not certain that she did; perhaps she feared it was true in her own life, and her fear had become a feeling that tasted like disbelief. | Andre Dubus | ||
| 313c96e | There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty. | inspirational | Sara Zarr | |
| f56e6f1 | Was it only because he happened to be the one who came along when he did? Could it have been anyone? Or was there something about him, that I liked and cared at? | Sara Zarr | ||
| 30a8fa9 | I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I'd call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too. | Sara Zarr | ||
| c7c7468 | Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!' 'A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt? | humor relationships teenagers | Sara Zarr | |
| 36379d5 | Sometimes trust isn't something you can just choose to do even if it makes sense. All my life the only reliable person, the one I could count on, the one who hasn't abandoned me, is me. | Sara Zarr | ||
| eefd68b | We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?" | Sara Zarr | ||
| c62b8d8 | It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out. | Sara Zarr | ||
| e17ba2d | I've barely been able to think about anything else.' 'Other than...' He waited for me to finish. 'Kissing you, dummy,' I said. 'Really?' 'You shouldn't be that surprised,' I said. He grinned. 'I'm just glad to know we're on the same page. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 4d58670 | If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 8017096 | My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open our eyes with "aha" -- while direct, abstract, learned assaults upon generalities usually glaze them over." | writing | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| b040383 | My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do they might tell you something you don't want to hear. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 70c4f73 | Jika anda mampu berkepala dingin saat sekeliling anda kehilangan akal dan menyalahkan anda, Jika anda bisa percaya diri saat orang lain meragukan anda, tetapi memperhatikan juga keraguan mereka, Jika anda bisa menunggu tanpa jemu dan tidak membalas kebohongan dengan kebohongan, atau kebencian dengan kebencian, Jika anda bisa tahan mendengar kebenaran yang anda katakan diplintir oleh orang licik untk mempengaruhi orang-orang bodoh, atau meli.. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 3f7b340 | You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved. | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| b6e928b | The toad beneath the harrow knows Where every separate tooth-point goes ; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. | kipling toad | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 5722f25 | What is this," said the leopard,"that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?" | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| 4958586 | I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns. | reading self-improvement | Max Beerbohm | |
| d172f65 | History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other." [ ]" | history repetition | Max Beerbohm | |
| 0e47a2e | To our benefit, death isn't affected by an economic failure, and it never takes a holiday. In addition, a bereaved rich man is easier to con than a poor one in the same condition. A poor man, straightaway, understands death to be inevitable, but it takes a rich man some time to see that the end can't be circumvented with the application of enough collateral. | Jeffrey Ford | ||
| 44b51fa | It was a great mistake to have come. He should have stayed at home and read his book, thought Peter Walsh; should have gone to a music hall; he should have stayed at home, for he knew no one. | introvert party reading | Virginia Woolf | |
| 202ef16 | Harriet said, "You shouldn't have reminded me to sign that book, Peter." "Why ever not? Have you suddenly become bashful about your hard-earned glories?" | library-books lord-peter-wimsey | Jill Paton Walsh | |
| ad7d112 | Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep. | Spider Robinson | ||
| 1071897 | Irrelevant' Chris Fogle turns a page. Howard Cardwell turns a page. Ken Wax turns a page. Matt Redgate turns a page. 'Groovy' Bruce Channing attaches a form to a file. Ann Williams turns a page. Anand Singh turns two pages at once by mistake and turns one back which makes a slightly different sound. David Cusk turns a page. Sandra Pounder turns a page. Robert Atkins turns two separate pages of two separate files at the same time. Ken Wax tu.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| d78af50 | Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing. ... I am not aware of any other factor in medicine--not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery--that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness, and premature death from all causes. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 48599b5 | by knowledge we approach God, | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| 9267249 | As Christian mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." He was right. If we recognize the soul lesson, we can grow beyond suffering, and there is no stress in this state of understanding." | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| b090125 | It's odd, but even when I am in pain I have a sexual urge. Perhaps especially when I am in pain I have a sexual urge. Or should I say that I am more attracted, more fascinated by women who cause me pain? | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | ||
| d2089c5 | How can I afford it?" opened up the brain and forced it to think and search for answers." | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 7844e08 | It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic--love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up. | bureaucracy cataclysm focus men women | Bonnie Jo Campbell | |
| 7d09ebd | Many people will not head down the street until all the lights are green. That is why they don't go anywhere. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 2438c57 | Your mind is infinite, it's your doubts that are limiting. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 273e63c | I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn. Look down the road at what skills they want to acquire before choosing a specific profession and before getting trapped in the Rat Race. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 4c64f5c | Asking for advice means, "Tell me what to do." Seeking education means, "Tell me what to study so I can learn what I need to do." | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| fc4381c | klm sh`r b'n lns twqft `n lbtsm fy wjhy, bdrt 'n bltbsm fy wjwhhm wtHythm, wkm lsHr, tntshr lbtsmt fy kl mkn Hwly, fSHyH hw lqwl b'n l`lm mhw l mra@ lk. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 88de0ab | A grief-stricken man is driven to defy the gods. | Clive Cussler |