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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6398443 | Could it hurt to take a look? The answer was yes, of course. It's always yes. But I went anyway. | Mike Carey | ||
| 2adde3c | The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page. | Mike Carey | ||
| 9584423 | It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff. | Mike Carey | ||
| d1eefa2 | And it is a fact an absolute fact that there are creatures on the surface of this earth that have never been studied by man . . . There are other worls - worlds within this world - that we can only begin to imagine. We may think we have seen all that there is to be seen on this tiny planet of ours. We most certainly have not - and perhaps never shall. | Steve Augarde | ||
| e71fc20 | Second, nothing about adolescence can be understood outside the context of delayed frontocortical maturation. If by adolescence limbic, autonomic, and endocrine systems are going full blast while the frontal cortex is still working out the assembly instructions, we've just explained why adolescents are so frustrating, great, asinine, impulsive, inspiring, destructive, self-destructive, selfless, selfish, impossible, and world changing. Thin.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 888c7b7 | if you're stressed like a normal mammal in an acute physical crisis, the stress response is lifesaving. But if instead you chronically activate the stress response for reasons of psychological stress, your health suffers. It | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 1201371 | The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks. | continuity discipleship worship | Harold Bloom | |
| 954d97f | Shakespeare will not make us better and will not make us worse, but he may allow us to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves. | thought-life | Harold Bloom | |
| 22f6ad1 | The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes. | poetry-life | Harold Bloom | |
| df53747 | Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside. | critics lemmings | Harold Bloom | |
| 15439f8 | I didn't doubt the potential value of paying attention to subconscious cues...problem was, my inner voice resembled Chicken Little: it was screaming that I was about to die, but it did that almost every time I laced up my climbing boots. | everest fear mountains nature | Jon Krakauer | |
| c6b7750 | Early on a difficult climb, especially a difficult solo climb, you constantly feel the abyss pulling at your back. To resist takes a tremendous conscious effort; you don't dare let your guard down for an instant. The siren song of the void puts you on edge; it makes your movements tentative, clumsy, herky-jerky. But as the climb goes on, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 4d750f6 | books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. | books | Jon Krakauer | |
| 8977055 | If you get killed," she argued with a mix of despair and anger, "it's not just you who'll pay the price. I'll have to pay, too, you know, for the rest of my life. Doesn't that matter to you?" | Jon Krakauer | ||
| df3b799 | An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 5534ad2 | But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God. Joseph taught and encouraged his adherents to receive personal communiques straight from the Lord. Divine revelation formed the bedrock of the religion. | history joseph-smith lds mormonism religion | Jon Krakauer | |
| 9a68a99 | The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 69983e2 | I'd like to repeat the advice I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of whi.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| af39153 | At eighteen, in a dream, he saw himself plodding through jungles, chinning up the ledges of cliffs, wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams. The peculiar thing about Everett Ruess was that he went out and did the things he dreamed about, not simply for a two-weeks' vacation in the civilized and trimmed wonderlands, but for months and years in the ve.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 32f7ac8 | is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It's really hard. Some days are better than others, but it's going to be hard every day for the rest of my life. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| bfd458c | Remember that every use of force, even the smallest, creates a counterforce. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 81ee33b | Remind yourself daily that there is no way to happiness; rather, happiness is the way. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 70f82b3 | I contemplate myself surrounded by the conditions I wish to attract into my life. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| f114ce1 | Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. -- George Bernard Shaw | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| e47dd45 | n 'y shy' tryd n tHqq@ y`tbr Hqyq@ mwjwd@ qy'm@ w HDr@ f~ lrwH Hrr `qlk mn lfkr lkhS@ blshrwT w lqywd w Html `dm lqdr@ `l~ tjly w Zhr rGbtk . n bqyt lrGbt w lfkr qy'm@ fy `qlk bdwn n yz`jh shy' wkdhlk fy lny@ fy nfs lwqt fswf ttHwl hdhh lfkr w lrGbt l~ wq` fy l`lm lmdy | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 54e96af | Whether it's your health, wealth, happiness, or any other element of your entire life experience, it is essential to keep in mind the importance of the movement of your attention. You must be obstinate and persistent in not allowing the viewpoints or information of others to alter your inner world. You know what you wish to become and what you would like to manifest for yourself. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| e0571e5 | Focus on understanding yourself instead of blaming others. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 9f1edfe | There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday...and the other day I do not worry about is tomorrow. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 7a9a09e | You are not necessarily what you say. Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words. What you do in your present moments is the only indicator of what you are as a person. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| cf9b27b | What you fight weakens you; what you cooperate with strengthens you. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 21bd186 | When you seek happiness for yourself it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others you will find it yourself. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| d157177 | Syllogism -- Major premise: I can control my thoughts. Minor premise: My feelings come from my thoughts. Conclusion: I can control my feelings. | feelings thoughts | Wayne W. Dyer | |
| 514a0b9 | You correct an error by bringing truth to it. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| a473589 | Not being offended is a way of saying, "I have control over how I'm going to feel, and I choose to feel peaceful regardless of what I observe going on. When you feel offended, you're practicing judgment. You judge someone else to be stupid, insensitive, rude, arrogant, inconsiderate, or foolish, and then you find yourself upset and offended by their conduct. What you may not realize is that when you judge another person, you do not define t.. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| c61e879 | If people knew that I really am what I say I am,' he said, 'you know they'd never forgive me.' 'Don't worry,' I said, 'Your lack of a secret is safe with us. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| d0e11c8 | When you're a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of specialness. But sooner or later the privileges are withdrawn, and all you're left with is a stunned bitterness at the realisation that you're just the same as everybody else. | child | Michael Marshall Smith | |
| 22c7272 | The anger I'd had, everything, was gone, and kissing her reminded me, again, that she was right. We were connected to each other. She was the air in my lungs, the blood in my veins; she was my whole life. | J.J. McAvoy | ||
| 8af2633 | Every town, every book, is a way to say, look, there's a new way, a different way. Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe- deposit box for civilization. | bookstores libraries | Liam Callanan | |
| abfb78e | Does a chicken have lips? | John Sandford | ||
| af34f46 | Carol Druze Was A Stone Killer. | shiver | John Sandford | |
| 352783b | trust no one, everything breaks, nothing works as advertised, and if anything can go wrong, it will. | John Sandford | ||
| e5b5284 | If you stand near a blacksmith, you will get covered in soot, but if you stand near a perfume seller, you will carry an aroma of scent with you. | Jean Sasson | ||
| 443ef62 | I would be the master of my life, no matter what actions I would have to take or pain I would have to endure | Jean Sasson | ||
| 25c2993 | Storytelling is power. A powerful book or movie can inform and inflame. | Jean Sasson |