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| 7d887e8 | The evangelical culture ties together faithfulness with extroversion," McHugh explained. "The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It's a constant tension for many introverts that they're not living that out. And in a religious world, there's more at stake when you feel that tension. It doesn't feel like 'I'm not doing as well as I'd like.' It feels like 'God isn't.. | Susan Cain | ||
| d376f6e | The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure they're talk-show ready. | Susan Cain | ||
| a5699f5 | Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. | Susan Cain | ||
| 5d4415f | b dlrmy mr khTr khwsh st khz dlm ykh brh brd arm r | عشق hafiz love | Hafez | |
| 582a4ab | And even though the drunkenness of love Has ruined me, | Hafez | ||
| 018765e | But theoretical, imagined suffering is not what distresses a man and destroys his peace of mind. Only what you have seen with pitying eyes can really shake you. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| c014f13 | Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone's destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 07f87b9 | Just as an astronomer, alone in an observatory, watches night after night through a telescope the myriads of stars, their mysterious movements, their changeful medley, their extinction and their flaming-up anew, so did Jacob Mendel, seated at his table in the Cafe Gluck, look through his spectacles into the universe of books, a universe that lies above the world of our everyday life, and, like the stellar universe, is full of changing cycle.. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 789c070 | And are we not guilty of offensive disparagement in calling chess a game? Is it not also a science and an art, hovering between those categories as Muhammad's coffin hovered between heaven and earth, a unique link between pairs of opposites: ancient yet eternally new; mechanical in structure, yet made effective only by the imagination; limited to a geometrically fixed space, yet with unlimited combinations; constantly developing, yet steril.. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 3d78b59 | She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow. | life madame-de-prie social-life twilight | Stefan Zweig | |
| b8318fe | Arrived at an age when others had already long been married and had children and held important positions, and were obliged to produce the best that was in them with all their energy, I still regarded myself as youthful, a beginner who faced immeasurable time, and I was hesitant about final decisions of any kind. | time youth | Stefan Zweig | |
| 66f9709 | My dad says the dogs and cats in America are luckier than most people in the world. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 2f47f04 | to deny someone an education is not just a crime but a sin, because you are denying that person the opportunity to realize who he or she is meant to be. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 66a6826 | I was a VIP, a Very Iranian Person, and things just take longer for us. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 42742b5 | You know, sometimes I think Someone up there really hates me. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 85c96bf | What I don't understand is where women suddenly get power. Because they do. The kids, who almost always turn out to be a pile of shit, are, we all know, Mommy's fault. Well, how did she manage that, this powerless creature? Where was all her power during the years she was doing five loads of laundry a week and worrying about mixing the whites with the colors? How was she able to offset Daddy's positive influence? How come she never knows sh.. | Marilyn French | ||
| e4daad8 | That moment when she'd crouched behind the tree...it did something to her, something that made her grow up and toughen up. But one question throbbed in her brain for a long, long time. Why? Why would Liam say something so hateful? How could he--who had tamed a stray and starving cat--be so cruel to a girl who had only ever wanted to be his friend? | Kristan Higgins | ||
| e12399e | Liam's face grew serious. "I'll take good care of you, Cordelia. I promise." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 58768f5 | She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly. | Ken Follett | ||
| 9fe6cca | He was like a man who has got used to drinking the finest wine, and now finds that everyday wine thats like vinegar. | comparison | Ken Follett | |
| 481d38b | Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do something it did not want to do, it would fight him, and his chisel would slip, or dig in too deeply, spoiling the shapes. But once he had got to know the lump of rock in front of him he could transform it. The more difficult the task, the more fascin.. | artist | Ken Follett | |
| 9e15cfd | Que Dios nos libre de los hombres con un destino dictado por la voluntad divina | Ken Follett | ||
| de234d1 | But her angry feminism had set as hard as concrete during years of living alongside the tough, hardworking, dirt-poor women of London's East End. Men often told a fairy tale in which there was a division of labor in families, the man going out to earn money, the woman looking after home and children. Reality was different. Most of the women Ethel knew worked twelve hours a day and looked after home and children as well. Underfed, overworked.. | Ken Follett | ||
| 3a5b5b6 | This is amazing," Volodya said. "He's the President, yet he has to make excuses all the time for what he does!" "Something like that," Woody said. "We call it democracy." | winter-of-the-world woody-dewar | Ken Follett | |
| 2221d41 | She was dressed in white, and her tunic had amazing flared sleeves which trailed on the ground behind her as she glided down the stairs. Her hair was a mass of dark curls tumbling around her face, and she had dark, dark eyes. Jack realized that this was what the chansons meant when they referred to a beautiful princess in a castle. No wonder the knights all wept when the princess died. | beauty princess | Ken Follett | |
| 78f2b67 | We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together. | humor | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 7ee136d | but that's one of the questions I've learned not to ask, because I'll get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents, to remind you that you're not yet a complete person. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| c4de057 | There's nothing more depressing than waking up in your shoes. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| ec6b881 | Time doesn't heal as much as it buries things in the undergrowth of your brain, where they lie in wait to ambush you when you least expect it. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| c55e994 | Even betting against myself, I could always find a way to lose. | funny-humor losing | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 3e97d4c | This is probably as good a time as any to mention that I was holding a large birthday cake. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 79e8921 | You've got to commit to something. I'm not telling you it has to be your life's dream or that it'll get you a Nobel Prize. But it will earn you more ownership of yourself. Commit to something--that is the essence of soul-searching. | Laura C. Schlessinger | ||
| e5a661b | You need to be a "good-enough mom"--attentive, loving, and responsive. No one is the perfect mom. As long as you try to be perfect, you will continue to be insignificant in your own eyes." | Laura C. Schlessinger | ||
| 5a04219 | Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is. | Laura Schlessinger | ||
| 15fd198 | Belief in a story," Uriel said, "of good confronting evil, of light overcoming darkness, of love transcending hate." He tilted his head. "Isn't that where all faith begins?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1ac64fb | There's power in the touch of another person's hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There's a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 77e26cc | There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect. A hundred million things had to happen, to all come together at the same time, for such moments to come into existence -- so many things that it beggars imagination to think that they could possibly have happened by random chance. This was one of them. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4f2aac6 | Imagine Smaug's treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 70a05d9 | I can't be under arrest right now,' I said back to him. 'I don't have the time. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4c26b29 | It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong." | mortality right-and-wrong war | Jim Butcher | |
| 5e74403 | It's a rational sort of fear that puts a lawn chair down in the front of your thoughts and brings a cooler of drinks along with it. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5a217e5 | Who," said the man, his accent thick and British, "are you?" "The Great Pumpkin," I responded. "I've risen from the pumpkin patch a bit early because Butters is just that nifty. And you are?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| bdadb73 | Dresden's not gone," I said. I touched a hand lightly to my brow. "He's here." I touched Will's bare chest, on the left side. "Here. Without him, without what he's done over the years, you and I would never have been able to pull this off." "No," he agreed. "Probably not. Definitely not." "There are a lot of people he's taught. Trained. Defended. And he's been an example. No single one of us can ever be what he was. But together, maybe we c.. | murphy will | Jim Butcher | |
| 611b83e | Because . . . fear is a terrible, insidious thing, Waldo. It taints and stains everything it touches. If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all. | Jim Butcher |