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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 92d2100 | Maybe demons are defined as anything other than God that tries to tell us who we are. And maybe, just moments after Jesus' baptism, when the devil says to him, "If you are the Son of God..." he does so because he knows that Jesus is vulnerable to temptation precisely to the degree that he is insecure about his identity and mistrusts his relationship with God. So if God's first move is to give us our identity, then the devil's first move is .. | god identity | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| b52ae48 | Smiley TV preachers might tell you that following Jesus is about being good so that God will bless you with cash and prizes, but really it's much more gruesome and meaningful. It's about spiritual physics. Something has to die for something new to live. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 58f3cd7 | Over the last twelve chapters we have considered the crucial difference between servants and slaves- noting that while servants are hired, slaves are owned. Believers are not merely Christ's hired servants; they are His slaves, belonging to Him as His possession. He is their Owner and Master, worthy of their unquestioned allegiance and absolute obedience. His Word is their final authority; His will their ultimate mandate. Having taken up t.. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| f537e95 | By day I am nothing, by night I am I. | life | Fernando Pessoa | |
| a6fd50b | For I am born to tame you, Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Comfortable as other household Kates. | shakespeare taming-of-the-shrew | William Shakespeare | |
| e0d9903 | Flora reached out and grabbed hold of William Spiver's hand, and he held on to her. It was as if he were drowning and she were standing on solid ground. According to TERRIBLE THINGS! drowning people were desperate, out of their minds with fear. In their panic they could pull you, the rescuer, under, if you weren't careful. So Flora held on tightly to William Spiver. And he held on tightly back. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 7699353 | on the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable. | happy-playgrounds the-inn-of-reason | Fernando Pessoa | |
| a4e8f36 | All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me. It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It's just unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurls | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 7237bd2 | My lack of initiative was the root cause of all my troubles - of my inability to want something before having thought about it, of my inability to commit myself, of my inability to decide in the only way one can decide: by deciding, not by thinking. I'm like Buridan's donkey, dying at the mathematical midpoint between the water of emotion and the hay of action; if I didn't think, I might still die, but it wouldn't be from thirst or hunger. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 028e532 | I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat close by, false master of an estranged and exiled body. | estrangement exile imagination stranger visions | Fernando Pessoa | |
| 7fe0f0e | Se te queres matar, porque nao te queres matar? Ah, aproveita! que eu, que tanto amo a morte e a vida, | poesía se-te-queres-matar suicídio | Fernando Pessoa | |
| 1951945 | O meu misticismo e nao querer saber. E viver e nao pensar nisso. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 2d7abe6 | I believe in the world as in a daisy, Because I see it. But I don't think about it, Because to think is to not understand. The world wasn't made for us to think about it (To think is to have eyes that aren't well) But to look at it and to be in agreement. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| c15feed | Poios tha m' ekane n' akouso kapoiou ten anthropine phone Pou tha omologouse okhi mian amartia, alla mian atimia Pou tha diegiotan okhi mia biaie praxe, alla mia deile! Okhi, oloi einai to Idaniko, na, tous akouo kai mou miloun. Uparkhei kaneis s' auto ton kosmo na mou omologesei Pos esto mia phora etan kakos; O prigkipes, adelphia mou, Blakes, eimai mpoukhtismenos apo emitheous! Pou ekhei anthropous s' auton ton kosmo; Delade ego eimai o .. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 9679cd7 | Para realizar um sonho e preciso esquece-lo, distrair dele a atencao. Por isso realizar e nao realizar. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 0fc53d5 | No-one loves another More than he loves whatever | love mistakes vanity | Fernando Pessoa | |
| 32343f3 | Mestre, meu mestre querido! Coracao do meu corpo intelectual e inteiro! Vida da origem da minha inspiracao! Mestre, que e feito de ti nesta forma de vida? Nao cuidaste se morrerias, se viverias, nem de ti nem de nada, Alma abstrata e visual ate aos ossos, Atencao maravilhosa ao mundo exterior sempre multiplo, Refugio das saudades de todos os deuses antigos, Espirito humano da terra materna, Flor acima do diluvio da inteligencia subjetiva..... | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 759e1d2 | Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars. | written-word | Fernando Pessoa | |
| 7c56d00 | I am the nothingness around which this movement spins, the only reason it spins, not that the center exists except in the fact that all circles have a center. I, really I, am the well without walls, but with the sliminess of its walls, the center of everything with the nothingness around it. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 978c049 | The tedium of existence and feeling imprisoned in a deplorable job can cause a person to consider the most expedient escape route from suffering including flirting with suicide. Fernando Pessoa wrote in "The Book of Disquiet" of his own feelings of uneasiness and sense of discouragement. "I suffer from life and from other people. I cannot look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, w.. | depression-quotes discontent discontentment discouragement suffering suffering-quote suffering-quotes suicidal-thoughts suicide tedium | Kilroy J. Oldster | |
| 4972a1c | No hay mayor tragedia que tener la misma intensidad, en una misma alma o en un hombre, del sentimiento intelectual y del sentimiento moral. Para que un hombre pueda ser distintiva y absolutamente moral, tiene que ser un poco estupido. Para que un hombre pueda ser absolutamente intelectual, tiene que ser un poco inmoral. No se que juego o ironia de las cosas condena al hombre a la imposibilidad de que se de esta dualidad tan grande. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 4cef802 | VII From my village I see as much of the universe as can be seen from the earth, And so my village is as large as any town, For I am the size of what I see And not the size of my height . . . In the cities life is smaller Than here in my house on top of this hill. The big buildings of cities lock up the view, They hide the horizon, pulling our gaze far away from the open sky. They make us small, for they take away all the vastnes.. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| bf7026e | I don't know how many souls I have. I've changed at every moment. I always feel like a stranger. I've never seen or found myself. From being so much, I have only soul. A man who has soul has no calm. A man who sees is just what he sees. A man who feels is not who he is. Attentive to what I am and see, I become them and stop being I. Each of my dreams and each desire Belongs to whoever had it, not me. I am my own landscape, I watch myself jo.. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 34f081b | Beyond the bend in the road There may be a well, and there may be a castle, And there may be just more road. I don't know and don't ask. As long as I'm on the road that's before the bend I look only at the road before the bend, Because the road before the bend is all I can see. It would do me no good to look anywhere else Or at what I can't see. Let's pay attention only to where we are. There's only enough beauty in being here and not somew.. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 99dadea | Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name joined to the true dream does create a new reality. The object does change into something else, because we make it change. We manufacture realities. | reality | Fernando Pessoa | |
| be76665 | Para ser grande, se inteiro: nada Teu exagera ou exclui. Se todo em cada coisa. Poe quanto es No minimo que fazes. Assim em cada lago a lua toda Brilha, porque alta vive. To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| ace619d | Let's act like sphinxes, however falsely, until we reach the point of no longer knowing who we are. For we are, in fact, false sphinxes, with no idea of what we are in reality. The only way to be in agreement with life is to disagree with ourselves. Absurdity is divine. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 49076d0 | Is it that my habit of placing myself in the souls of other people makes me see myself as others see or would see me if they noticed my presence there? It is. And once I've perceived what they would feel about me if they knew me, it is as if they were feeling and expressing it at that very moment. It is a torture to me to live with other people. Then there are those who live inside me. Even when removed from life, I'm forced to live with th.. | people self souls torture | Fernando Pessoa | |
| 243c0db | The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke them to grant themselves the category of artist. Taking the anxiety of an unreachable happiness, the angst of unrealized dreams, the indifference towards action and life, as the defining criteria of genius or talent, immediately facilitates everyone who feels or has felt that same anxiety, suffers that same angst .. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 3c4522a | I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| 1088aaf | I'm beginning to know myself. I don't exist. I'm the space between what I'd like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room. | Fernando Pessoa | ||
| f084391 | I have often noticed that when women look at themselves in every reflection, and take furtive peeps into their looking-glasses, it is hardly ever, as is generally supposed, from vanity, but much more often from a feeling that all is not quite as it should be | Nancy Mitford | ||
| 852b04c | Well, he perked right up and said, Five hundred dollars? Mrs. Elliot, I believe we can be of service to you after all. "I doubt it, I told him. I made this money with the sweat of my brow and the labor of my hands and I've got the rawhide to prove it. I don't inted to leave it with any man that thinks money is confusing." | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| a150350 | A clock only turns one direction | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 8d4cec8 | Never forget, either of you, that there is always something greater than yourselves at work in the world. Look for it. Seek the whole truth, rather than letting the wind blow you as it will. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| d902e16 | Low down dirty ornery rotten skunk of a cussed mule-headed soldier! What's he want with my book anyway? And what kind of a way is that to write a congratulations? I am so mad I could walk clear to that fort and take him on single handed. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 3995303 | The best cure for sadness is doing something. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 95f5bad | With the illusion stripped away, I could see that we were part of an ocean of light. We are light flowing, moving, and transmuting shape similarly to the way that water morphs into steam and ice and snow. | gnosticism | Jonathan Talat Phillips | |
| 9adf0f8 | The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were so cold that the walls were plastered with crushed pepper in order to produce heat. | england humorous-quotes spice-islands spices | Giles Milton | |
| 67f8495 | The gods are capricious, and I was about to amuse them. And Alfred was right. I was a fool. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 3b0eb44 | Who do you serve?" Lanferelle asked. "Sir John Cornerwailled," Hook said proudly. Lanferelle was pleased. "Sir John! Ah, there's a man. His mother must have slept with a Frenchman." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| f94c890 | Os bardos cantam sobre o amor e sobre como as mulheres desejam o amor, mas ninguem sabe o que ele e ate que, como uma lanca atirada do escuro, ele acerta. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| f6c53bf | Fight well," he said distantly, "and remember you are Englishmen!" "Welshmen," someone intervened. Sir Roger visibly flinched at that and then, without another word, led his three men-at-arms from the church." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 7ef450c | One of the things I can't stand about Christians is their admiration of meekness. Imagine elevating meekness into a virtue! Meekness! Can you imagine a heaven filled only with the meek? What a dreadful idea. The food would get cold while everyone passed the dishes to everyone else. Meekness is no good, Derfel. Anger and selfishness, those are the qualities that make the world march. | Bernard Cornwell |