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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7d65feb | Weren't movies his generation's faith anyway--its true religion? Wasn't the theater our temple, the one place we enter separately but emerge from two hours later together, with the same experience, same guided emotions, same moral?...what was that but a religion? | my-religion truth | Jess Walter | |
| 8713c3d | We tend to shy away from data that challenges our assumptions, that erodes our preconceptions. Getting rid of our wrong ideas is a painful and difficult process, yet it's that very process that makes data truly useful. A fact becomes information when it challenges our assumptions. These challenges are the raw material that forces our ideas to evolve, our tastes to change, our minds to grow. | Charles Seife | ||
| 12558fa | I look forward to the day when we can meet one another in our true nakedness, stripped free of unresolved emotions, pain-induced projections, the distortions of duality. For too long we have been on opposite sides of the river, the bridge between our hearts washed away by a flood of pain. But the time has come to construct a new bridge, one that comes into being with each step we take, one that is fortified with benevolent intentions and au.. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 87408ad | It was one thing to be vulnerable when alone, something else entirely to trust another to hold my heart safe. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 08d70cd | So many of us know the moment when a love connection is over, but few of us stop then. I am not talking about reactive endings. I am talking about the deep intuitive knowing that it is time to move on. Yet we are either too afraid, or too stubborn, or too concerned about the other's feelings to make our move. But it is perilous to delay, both because we suffer in the wrong connection, and because we hold two souls back from finding the next.. | Jeff Brown | ||
| ff95846 | PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! Due to the cumulative effect of collective sharing and loving intentionality, the Shame Train has derailed at the junction of Self-Belief and Divine Uniqueness. The engine couldn't run on self-hatred any longer. All formerly shamed passengers please disembark the train. You are free. A new train--fueled by healthy self-regard and sacred purpose--will be along momentarily to pick you up. No tickets required on th.. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 7741c46 | Unconscious consumerism preys on the uncentered. Once we lose touch with our center, we don't know who we are anymore, and marketers fill the void by telling us who we ought to be. | Jeff Brown | ||
| c41f6d1 | the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 3b2b32c | You think she's got a personality disorder?" "No, she's just a nasty bitch. An unpleasant personality isn't a medical condition. Just a symptom of not being slapped around the head enough." | halo karen-traviss personality-disorders psychiatry | Karen Traviss | |
| 7a06d10 | I went into the room and sat next to Linus on the bed. I put my hand on his shoulder. I was always surprised at how soft other people were. I thought I felt his heartbeat, although it could have been my own. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| b0e93bd | When you're young, sex doesn't mean as much, it isn't sacred. Children make the best prostitutes because they're th emost perfunctory about the whole encounter. The whole act is like a dare, like kissing a frog or something. It's nasty while it's happening, but you forget about it soon afterward. And sometimes it isn't even that nasty. Whatever it is, it's so far from love. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| d0a3ffe | People gave you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this was the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could. Marika was beckoning from the other side." | loss | Heather O'Neill | |
| 9e2042c | I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboard of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. I was born an insomniac and that's the way I'll die, wasting thousands of hours along the way longing for unconsciousness, longing for a rubber mallet to crack me in the hear, not so hard, not hard enough to do any damage, just a good whack to put me do.. | David Benioff | ||
| 9492e6c | I didn't know if we were heading for the gallows or an interrogation chamber. The night had passed without sleep; save for a swig from the German's flask, there hadn't been a sip to drink since the rooftop of the Kirov; a lump the size of an infant's fist had swelled where my forehead had cracked the ceiling- it was a bad morning, really; among my worst- but I wanted to live. | David Benioff | ||
| 8ce1f17 | Es gibt keine gute Nachricht. Nur weil es eine schlechte Nachricht gibt, muss es nicht zwangslaufig gute Nachrichten geben. | David Benioff | ||
| b92c9e3 | I wish you'd told me this before." "It wouldn't have changed anything." "Maybe not. But talking about wounds can help heal them." "You don't talk about yours," she pointed out. He sat down on the sofa facing her and leaned forward. "But I do," he said seriously. "I talk to you. I've never told anyone else about the way my father treated us. That's a deeply personal thing. I don't share it. I can't share it with anyone but you." "I'm part o.. | Diana Palmer | ||
| e21c2f3 | All warfare that is not defensive is criminal. | Jane Porter | ||
| 12fe84a | Holding her tight against him, he said, "I am the blood in your veins, the marrow in your bones. You'll never go anywhere without knowing I'm inside you, supporting you, keeping you alive. I am a part of you. You are a part of me. We are forever." | Christina Dodd | ||
| 950ed91 | Words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself," he said. "Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe." From a Life Magazine interview in 1988." | Julian Jaynes | ||
| 5363e1a | No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the Good and evil do not exist. | morality psychology | Julian Jaynes | |
| 3553db6 | The very word virus began as a contradiction. We inherited the word from the Roman Empire, where it meant, at once, the venom of a snake or the semen of a man. Creation and destruction in one word. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| b790bbe | He would have enough money...for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| dfd363c | Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves. | Joe Meno | ||
| 1c607d5 | Jack: Well, I've never been to New York, but I hear it's for assholes. Odile: It's not. Jack: Well, that's what I heard. Cool people don't live there anymore, They all live here. In Chicago. | new-york | Joe Meno | |
| d32a4e8 | It will happen soon. Someday you will find yourself surrounded by people with the exact same interests as you, and you will never feel out of place again," I say, already wary of the incredible lie I am telling." | fitting-in interests lonely | Joe Meno | |
| 493ec9e | We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything. | Joe Meno | ||
| 9cbaea8 | We did something very simple," Effie says. "Yes, and what was that?" Effie Mumford stares off the porch into the night sky. The first stars of the evening are quietly arriving, and Billy, following her gaze, listens as the small girl speaks. "We allowed ourselves, for one brief moment, to believe in something we could not see." | Joe Meno | ||
| ea0d7e8 | Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| fb61cc2 | The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher. | interesting philosophy science | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 296127a | Some 14 billion years ago, at the beginning of time, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe fit within a pinhead. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 015e77d | The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself. | cosmos science space | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 02e9c08 | To declare that Earth must be the only planet in the universe with life would be inexcusably big-headed of us. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| f9dd138 | Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures. | Watchman Nee | ||
| a99a086 | Why does God not declare himself as the God of Adam? For we know that Abraham sinned even as Adam did. Why then did He not call himself the God of Adam? Why did He not say the God of Abel, the seed of Adam? Why instead did He call himself the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob? Why according to the flesh was our Lord Jesus presented in the New Testament as having been born of the seed of Abraham? Why from among all men should God have c.. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 63db07c | If we throw ourselves open to God, He will reveal. The trouble comes when we have closed areas, locked and barred places in our hearts, where we think, with pride, that we are right. | Watchman Nee | ||
| 26493d4 | The old slogan 'truth is stranger than fiction,' that still corresponded to the surrealist phase of this estheticization of life, is obsolete. There is no more fiction that life could possibly confront, even victoriously-it is reality itself that disappears utterly in the game of reality-radical disenchantment, the cool and cybernetic phase following the hot stage of fantasy. | post-structuralism the-orders-of-simulacra | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 57b4288 | Every set of phenomena, whether cultural totality or sequence of events, has to be fragmented, disjointed, so that it can be sent down the circuits; every kind of language has to be resolved into a binary formulation so that it can circulate not, any longer, in our memories, but in the luminous, electronic memory of the computers. No human language can withstand the speed of light. No event can withstand being beamed across the whole planet.. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| f8921f3 | Virtuality is different from the spectacle, which still left room for a critical consciousness and demystification. The abstraction of the 'spectacle' was never irrevocable, even for the Situationists. Whereas unconditional realization is irrevocable, since we are no longer either alienated or dispossessed: we are in possession of all the information. We are no longer spectators, but actors in the performance, and actors increasingly integr.. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 6713f34 | The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production. | power production reality society wants | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 2e598f4 | I don't remember when first I heard Them calling, with their silvery voices, The little Angels of the trees and flowers. They offered to unlock my mind And take my soul away, to clean. And oh! I welcomed them, and lay Stretched out upon the fragrant Grass, light as an empty husk. Then they, with rueful smiles, did oil The rusty hinges of my mind, and swept Away the cobwebs, and hung my soul Upon a topmost bough, to air, Close to the purifyi.. | Jane Goodall | ||
| 49ee4f9 | In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly. | duty inspirational life | Ellis Peters | |
| e0e158c | You and many outstanding inventors and writers have striven for the ideal and have thereby helped yourself do remarkably well. REBT, therefore, does not oppose competition or striving for outstanding achievement. It advocates task-perfection, not self-perfection." "What does that mean?" "It means that you can try to be as good, or even as perfect, as you can--at any project or task. You can try to make it ideal. But you are not a good perso.. | Albert Ellis | ||
| f060494 | I am learning, and I believe I shall do quite well. | success | Shannon Drake | |
| 82b4a0d | some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a facet inside him that society could not tame, something stimulating yet dangerous, like standing at the edge of a cliff and feeling the mysterious, subtle pull to jump. | rachel truman | Brenda Novak |