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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 88603a5 | Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after facing watched its silent growth, is permitted to gather and call it his own | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| bf346ee | Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more. | love | Alexandre Dumas-fils | |
| c3d00c9 | Once you get into the problem... you see that it's complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's where most people stop, and the solutions tend to work for a while. But the really great person will keep going, find the underlying problem, and come up with an elegant solution that works on every level. | George Beahm | ||
| d939c96 | Most good decisions will involve these steps: Figure out your goal or goals. Evaluate the importance of each goal. Array the options. Evaluate how likely each of the options is to meet your goals. Pick the winning option. Later use the consequences of your choice to modify your goals, the importance you assign them, and the way you evaluate future possibilities. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| d250635 | Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. | Robert D. Kaplan | ||
| 2b35498 | Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments. | money philosophy warren-buffett | Roger Lowenstein | |
| 9f5952e | Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. | Walker Percy | ||
| d833798 | The Self since the time of Descartes has been stranded, split off from everything else in the Cosmos, a mind which professes to understand bodies and galaxies but is by the very act of understanding marooned in the Cosmos, with which is has no connection. It therefore needs to exercise every option in order to reassure itself that it is not a ghost but is rather a self among other selves. One such option is a sexual encounter. Another is wa.. | Walker Percy | ||
| 794fe49 | this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes. | romantic | Walker Percy | |
| 2041449 | The wrong people always worry. The people who are the real problem never worry about anything. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 0aede44 | In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. Perhaps it's one that fills you with contentment and endows you with a level of courage and an acceptance that you didn't know you possessed. Or maybe not. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 5f27b68 | The wind smelled of humus, lichen, the musky odor of pecan husks broken under the shoe, a sunshower on the fields across the bayou. But any poetry that might have been contained in that moment was lost when I stared into Honoria's face, convinced that human insanity was as close to our fingertips as the act of rubbing fog off a window pane. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 599415e | In order to be a writer, "Maugham continues: "one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The Razor's Edge while wearing a paper hat...." | Woody Allen | ||
| d3d28f1 | Mrs. Sol Schwimmer is suing me because I made her bridge as I felt it and not to fit her ridiculous mouth! That's right! I can't work to order like a common tradesman! I decided her bridge should be enormous and billowing, with wild, explosive teeth flaring up in every direction like fire! Now she is upset because it won't fit in her mouth! She is so bourgeois and stupid. I want to smash her! I tried forcing the false plate in but it sticks.. | Woody Allen | ||
| f198d4e | If she were lying on a plate with a herring, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. | Woody Allen | ||
| 2b9eb13 | There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone. | fear vulnerability | Tahir Shah | |
| a7ca6a0 | Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi. | enlightenment india travel varanasi | Tahir Shah | |
| a5da09f | In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it. | india psychology | Tahir Shah | |
| 1b5937c | Exploration is a dirty game. | exploration fairness game | Tahir Shah | |
| 9e1deb6 | Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends. | travel wilderness | Tahir Shah | |
| 99b7624 | It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa. | ancestry middle-east | Tahir Shah | |
| 0673f8a | At the last moment, the fish and I exchange a troubled glance. The murrel seems to be demanding an explanation. Alas, I am in no position to start justifying the unusual treatment. What comes next is a new experience for both the fish and me. | india | Tahir Shah | |
| 08a4b38 | The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess. | expedition journey navigation skill | Tahir Shah | |
| 6991ea4 | Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a most amazing journey: The sages who have compassed sea and land, Their secret to search out and understand, My mind misgives me if they ever solve The scheme on which the universe is planned. | sufis sword travel | Tahir Shah | |
| 587a6f1 | Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed. | laziness life-and-living-life-lessons work-ethic | Tahir Shah | |
| b91fb4f | In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm. | danger harm protection travel | Tahir Shah | |
| 99c4c82 | The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream. | Steve Martin | ||
| 8c9fdbc | He knows only what is right in front of him; she is aware of every incoming sensation that glances obliquely against her soft, fragile core | Steve Martin | ||
| aafd6e3 | I'm smart enough to know that Elizabeth had no doubt seen dozens of men leap over curbs without her falling in love with the leaper, but I do believe this: When an endeavor is special in a person's life, others discern it intuitively and appreciate it more, like the praise a child receives for a lumpy clay sculpture. And as ordinary as such an event might be, it can be instilled with uncommon power. | Steve Martin | ||
| f22f106 | Okay," Adam began, "Now concentrate! This was a real person. White suit!" "Colonel Sanders!" Lily replied quickly. "Colonel Sanders? I said it was a real person, not a logo for a chicken joint!" "He was a real person! If you don't believe me look it up!" "Whatever! Not Colonel Sanders though. Humor!" he said urgently. "Steve Martin!" She clapped her hands with joy, obviously believing that they had finally gotten one right. "No, uh..." He s.. | N.M. Silber | ||
| 7ea4a82 | Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events. | Steve Martin | ||
| bbdbd07 | She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably | Steve Martin | ||
| 42bffc6 | Explaining one's recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to gain strength and learn about oneself, and thereby turning this terribly tragic affair into something hugely positive. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ca4aacc | Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world,..They see more than adults, believe in more, are honest and will always, always let you know where you stand. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8592c4f | kids always know what's going on, even before you know yourself sometimes. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| cd17968 | Dear Alex, I think I'm going to organize a search party. Have you fallen off the edge of the earth? Are you still alive? I called your mother the other day and they haven't heard from you very much either. Is everything OK? Because if it's not, I have a right to know. You're supposed to confide in me because I'm your best friend and . . . it's law. And if things are OK then contact me anyway, I'm your friend and I need gossip. It's section .. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 59e011d | UnsureOne: But surely if you've been friends since you were six and you're now thirty-two, you've both been married once and are now living with other people in different countries, then if it hasn't happened by now, it won't be happening at all. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 2278aff | Like Rosaleen and Arthur's house, this had the feel of generations of people who had lived there before, families that had grown up, run and shouted through the hallways, broken things, grown things, fallen in love. Instead of the occupants owning the house, the house owned a part of each of them. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 633979a | He's a simple man only I don't really believe that. Nobody who says as little as he does, is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you're not talking, you're thinking and he thinks a lot. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 310b411 | Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can't figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying "Bold ground," then you pick yourself up and get on with it." | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 41f1b2e | Maybe the strongest fighters are the nurturers because they're connected to something deep in their core, they've got something to fight for, they've got something worth saving. Granddad | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| c872280 | What have I ever had to do in my life that really needed to be done? I always had a choice, and I always took the easy way out--we always took the easy way out. At our age the burden of double maths on a Monday morning and finding a spot the size of Pluto on my nose was as complicated as it ever got for me. This time round I'm having a baby. A baby. And that baby will be around on the Monday, on the Tuesday, on the Wednesday, Thursday, Frid.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e7f62bd | Es asi la vida normal? Lo pregunto porque estoy acostumbrada al dramatismo. Por lo general las cosas se resisten a salir como quiero. Estoy acostumbrada a luchar, quejarme y protestar para conseguir cosas que no son exactamente lo que quiero, pero que cubren el expediente. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 10ed114 | He aprendido que el hogar no es un sitio, es un sentimiento. | Cecelia Ahern |