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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0660353 | Jesus saw the eternal in the everyday. Your last day on earth should be spent as you spent all your others-- doing your daily tasks with love and honesty... An ordinary day is, perhaps, the most holy of all. | jesus spirtuality | Margaret George | |
| 0101970 | It is thus that inanimate objects seem to soak up the essence of living things, and later cause pain or pleasure when we merely look at them. | Margaret George | ||
| e50649e | That night when I went to the bathroom I only pretended to brush my teeth, for I feared that I would somehow rinse the prayer out as well. I wet the brush and rearranged the tube of paste to prevent my parents from asking any questions, and feel asleep with sugar on my tongue. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| fb4b3f5 | Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night. She had no wish to overcome it. Rather, it was something upon which she'd come to depend, with which she'd entered by now into a relation.. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 16ba62a | Amid the gray, an incongruous band of daytime blue asserts itself. To the west, a pink sun already begins its descent. The effect is of three isolated aspects, distinct phases of the day. All of it, strewn across the horizon, is contained in his vision. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 33f6adf | When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| c074e2f | Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth. --NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, "The Custom-House" | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 707c1d5 | I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes. | Sigrid Nunez | ||
| 5c69989 | in painted quiet and concentration | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 7f997ba | Some people flee some other people. In some country under a sun and some clouds. They abandon something close to all they've got, sown fields, some chickens, dogs, mirrors in which fire now preens. Their shoulders bear pitchers and bundles. The emptier they get, the heavier they grow. What happens quietly: someone's dropping from exhaustion. What happens loudly: someone's bread is ripped away, someone tries to shake a limp child b.. | oppression poetry | Wisława Szymborska | |
| bedb804 | hrdw br yn bwrnd kh Hsy nghny anh r bh hm pywnd ddh. chnyn Tmynny zybst, m trdyd zyb tr st. chwn qbl hmdygr r nmy shnkhtnd, gmn my brdnd hrgz chyzy myn anh nbwdh. m nZr khybn h, plh h w rhrwhyy kh an dw my twnsth nd z sl h pysh z knr hm gdhshth bshnd, dr yn brh chyst? dwst dshtm z anh bprsm ay bh yd nmy awrnd shyd drwn dry chrkhn zmny rwbrwy hm? yk bbkhshyd dr zdHm mrdm? yk Sdy shtbh grfth yd dr gwshy tlfn? - wly pskhshn r my dnm. - nh, c.. | Wisława Szymborska | ||
| 3fa36ac | Your daddy doesn't know his assonance from his elegy! And he calls himself a poet. | Paul Beatty | ||
| 7099f59 | There are solutions to the major problems of our time; some of them even simple. But they require a radical shift in our perceptions, our thinking, our values. And, indeed, we are now at the beginning of such a fundamental change of worldview in science and society, a change of paradigms as radical as the Copernican revolution. Unfortunately, this realization has not yet dawned on most of our political leaders, who are unable to "connect th.. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 807ca5e | This state of affairs is not inevitable. Humans were able to employ science and law to transform common holdings into a commodity and then into capital; we also have the ability to reverse this path, transforming some of our now overabundant capital into renewed commons. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| f17848b | Systems thinking is "contextual," which is the opposite of analytical thinking. Analysis means taking something apart in order to understand it; systems thinking means putting it into the context of a larger whole." | Fritjof Capra | ||
| fbbd1b7 | If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see, this book is the child of such homesickness. | Huston Smith | ||
| 7045c56 | figure the reason you don't have much to say is you probably never met a man who liked to hear a woman talk. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6278c7a | And it's the only whorehouse in town. They say if you can sprout up twelve inches of dick you get to fuck free. | fuck whorehouse | Larry McMurtry | |
| 944dd42 | Razzy was insulting me silently somehow. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8825d9c | Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| bfe9414 | Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at. | windy | Larry McMurtry | |
| 010140e | Is growin' up always miserable?" Sonny asked. "Nobody seems to enjoy it much." "Oh, it ain't necessarily misearble," Sam replied. "About eighty percent of the time, I guess." They were silent again, Sam the Lion thinking of the lovely, spritely girl he had once led into the water, right there, where they were sitting. "We ought to go to a real fishin' tank next year," Sam said finally. "It don't do to think about things like that too mu.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| d810cc3 | I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something." --Sheriff Toots Burns." -- | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6a34ca0 | You have to remember that I've been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you've been lonely long enough you don't realize you're cold, but you are... I don't know, maybe at the center of me there's some ice that never will melt, maybe it's just been there too long. But you mustn't worry. You didn't put it there. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f5f13c5 | The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to do the opposite, and as a professional economist, I have had occasions in the past to wonder whther the Bank could not have done very much better. | Amartya Sen | ||
| 6a451c9 | November came roaring in with gusty winds and more wet weather. Mandy's depression would not go away. Her garden seemed sad, too. It was virtually empty now, and the few brave flowers that remained there were flattened by rain, their yellows stalks sprawling in all directions. Most of the trees were bare, and the woods had a wet carpet of leaves. | Julie Andrews Edwards | ||
| 995822b | Whatever man imagines is possible | inspirational | Julie Andrews Edwards | |
| e863d2e | What am I?...I say so inasmuch as I am the memory of all my past moments, the sum of everything I remember. If I say I in the sense of that something that is here at this moment and is not the mainmast or the coral, then I am the sum of what I feel now. But what is what I feel now? It is the sum of those relations between presumed indivisibles that have been arranged in that system of relations in that special order that is my body. | Umberto Eco | ||
| c2c9b9f | Sometimes salvation is found in agony. | salvation suffering | Alexandre Dumas | |
| a4045c0 | Follow me. He who lives will see. - D'Artagnan | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 387d48a | Ah, what he is; that is quite another thing. I have seen so many remarkable things in him, that if you would have me really say what I think, I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron's heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous gen.. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 9272c71 | Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had previously been dispersed, now they clashed in a narrow space; and, as you know, the clash of clouds produces electricity, electricity produces lightning and lightning gives light. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 12a8bf9 | n llHy@ f~ b`D l'Hyn Drwrth lqsy@ `l~ lqlb .. wlknh Drwrt lbd mn lkhDw` lh wltslym bh. | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| 3902b42 | A man is always in a hurry to be happy. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| b0f9840 | It was one of those rare and beautiful days in winter when England remembers that there is a sun. The star of the day, pale but nevertheless still splendid, was setting in the horizon, glorifying at one the heavens and the sea with bands of fire, and casting upon the tower and the old houses of the city a last ray of gold which made the windows sparkle like the reflection of a conflagration. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 2ed7ae0 | Tous pour un, un pour tous | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| fda45c3 | Solo el que ha experimentado el colmo del infortunio puede sentir la felicidad suprema | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 1e8628b | lnsn qd yGD lTrf `n Sl@ wHd@ .. wlknh l ytjwz `n Sltyn ! fshwl@ ltjwz `n lSlt - wlw bdf` lHb - tnzl lnsn l~ ldrk l'sfl ldh~ ytkhbT fyh lmtjrwn bl'`rD. | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| 7f5c109 | It was clear that Mme Danglars was suffering from one of those nervous irritations which women are often unable to explain even to themselves. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 418133d | f~ b`D l'Hyn yjd lnsn f~ nHy@ mn nwH~ D`fh mSdran lls`d@. ('rmn) | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| ef44c01 | n Hwdth lHZ@ wHd@ Hqan qd tw'thr f~ Hytn wmSy'rn km l tw'thr Hwdth `m kml ! | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| b9f69f3 | Il mio regno e grande come il mondo, perche non sono ne italiano ne francese ne indiano ne americano ne spagnolo: io sono cosmopolita. Nessun paese puo dire di avermi visto nascere; Dio solo sa quale terra mi vedra morire. Io adotto tutti i costumi, parlo tutte le lingue; [...] Dunque capirete che non essendo di alcun paese, non domandando protezione, non riconoscendo alcun uomo per mio fratello, non un solo scrupolo che arresta i potenti, .. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 676bf36 | Kak shchastieto i zhivot't na drugite predizvikva zhelanie za zhivot i u tezi, koito vchera v dushevnata si samota i v mrachnata si staia sa zhelaeli b'rzo da umrat? | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| d8d5eac | A meno che non muoia, saro sempre cio che sono. | Alexandre Dumas |