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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fac40e0 | suddenly | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| e1c16eb | Staring into the ring of candles--proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 96326ab | my parents are very good at bribery. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| fe4e5f4 | the backyard's tall grass, he had somehow understood the fear in his mother's voice. But on this day, the day they began taking the woods away, he hesitated. He took one extra breath of the fresh air, scented with clover and honeysuckle and--coming from far away-- | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| a111c04 | Luke's dad harrumphed, and paused in the midst of shoveling forkfuls of boiled potatoes into his mouth. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 07ed0a8 | Because," he said in an even voice, "you're used to winning, so you don't even think about how, every time there's a game, both sides get that 'rah, rah, team' speech from their coaches both sides hear 'you're the best!' 'You've got to win!' 'You're the greatest!' But half of the people playing that game are going to walk away losers. Half!" | loser team teams win winner | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 0483832 | Luke pictured himself | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 36c40f2 | Why didn't you tell me that evil could be so lighthearted? | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| b179a06 | The skills of becoming happy turn out to be almost entirely different from the skills of not being sad, not being anxious, or not being angry. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| 20a3dcb | Since divine truth and scripture clearly teach us that God, the Creator of all things, is Wisdom, a true philosopher will be a lover of God. That does not mean that all who answer to the name are really in love with genuine wisdom, for it is one thing to be and another to be called a philosopher. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 8d23fb4 | It is this Good which we are commanded to love with our whole heart, with our whole mind, and with all our strength. It is toward this Good that we should be led by those who love us, and toward this Good we should lead those whom we love. In this way, we fulfill the commandments on which depend the whole Law and the Prophets: 'Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God with thy whole heart, and thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind'; and 'Thou sha.. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 268d699 | Since the mind, which was meant to be reasonable and intelligent, has, by dark and inveterate vices, become too weak to adhere joyously to His unchangeable light (or even to bear it) until, by gradual renewal and healing, it is made fit for such happiness, its first need was to be instructed by faith and purified. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| cc820bb | But it must not be supposed that folly is as powerful as truth, just because it can, if it likes, shout louder and longer than truth. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 28a125e | This is what we love in friends. We love to the point that human conscience feels guilty if we do not love the person who is loving us, and if that love is not returned - without demanding any physical response other than the marks of affectionate good will. | Saint Augustine of Hippo | ||
| a8b201b | a thing is good and pleasant only because it is connected to Him. Use it apart from its Source, and it will come to taste bitter. Since the good thing is His, how can it remain worth loving if you forsake Him to get it? | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 5e8b129 | I would learn to discern and distinguish the difference between presumption and confession, between those who see what the goal is but not how to get there and those who see the way which leads to the home of bliss, not merely as an end to be perceived but as a realm to live in. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 37c81bc | So too let him rejoice and delight in finding you who are beyond discovery rather than fail to find you by supposing you to be discoverable. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 7160d86 | He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man. | discernment holiness love | Augustine of Hippo | |
| bfcaca4 | What could be more hapless than a man controlled by his own creations? It is surely easier for a man to cease to be a man by worshiping man-made gods than for idols to become divine by being adored. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 1753fe9 | Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. [quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 54] | memory time | Augustine of Hippo | |
| 49c5c48 | I looked out to see a forbidding place with granite walls and towering gates, implacable barriers to be reckoned with, the words strung across the archway struck fear into my confused mind: | Carole Gill | ||
| 45d43a3 | many people with IQs of 160 work for people with IQs of 100, if the former have poor intrapersonal intelligence and the latter have a high one. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 0a23076 | Forthrightness is the brain's default response: our neural wiring transmits our every minor mood onto the muscles of our face, making our feelings instantly visible. The display of emotion is automatic and unconscious, and so its suppression demands conscious effort. Being devious about what we feel--trying to hide our fear or anger--demands active effort and rarely succeeds perfectly.22 | Daniel Goleman | ||
| d19ca98 | Martin Luther King Jr. observed that those who failed to offer their aid asked themselves the question: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the Good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him?" | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 6b8fc42 | Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 729bb23 | Daydreaming incubates creative discovery. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 0c496df | Mindfulness helps especially for those of us for whom every setback, hurt or dissapointment creates endless cascades of rumination | Daniel Goleman | ||
| bce0b01 | There's some instinctive attraction that draws you, as a writer, to your subject. And the attraction usually has to do with some primal personal thing that, of course, you have no idea about. In the end, the piece always comes down to the one or two sentences you struggle over. The sentences where you try to say explicitly what it is that the two of you, subject and writer, have in common. Those are the sentences that you just bang your hea.. | Judith Thurman | ||
| 2e7b0b9 | What are you!? A Disney princess?" Ashley's annoyance powered semi-shout surprised the room. She dropped her knitting to her lap and glared at me, apparently sincerely perturbed by Janie's revelation. "Get over yourself! We all have to fall in love more than once--even if it's with the same person." | Penny Reid | ||
| e094f62 | I had no intention of drinking tequila with Quinn. Quinn plus tequila equaled and that sounded like something that happens in Mexican jails. | Penny Reid | ||
| b54c713 | I aspire to different achievements than worldly success, and I know you do as well. But, Claire, I'm glad you finally saw reason and accepted the record deal. Your star is too bright to hide in plain sight." "You just rhymed, Cletus. I might have to steal that for a song." "Go ahead. I ain't using it for anything profitable." | Penny Reid | ||
| da6a1fe | Because you scratched my itch and then you kissed me--both of which freaked me out because neither of which are in the course syllabus for laboratory experiments this semester. And, furthermore-- | Penny Reid | ||
| c5222d8 | Oh, Quinn...." I gave him a sympathetic smile. "You really are Batman." | Penny Reid | ||
| b23f97c | I don't think of you as perfect. "Oh... ok." My eyelashes blinked in rapid succession and my brain started compiling the list of all my imperfections, "It's because of my height? My seepage of trivial facts? My granny panties-" | Penny Reid | ||
| d0138ce | Just because someone is an idiot doesn't mean they're a bad person. And just because someone is smart doesn't mean they're good. | Penny Reid | ||
| a094172 | A sinister giggle escaped my lips. I'm not much of a giggler unless I've done something sinister. | Penny Reid | ||
| 0527ccb | He half said, half mumbled, "I'm not that nice." | Penny Reid | ||
| 000cc6a | His response filled me with glee. It was as if a unicorn had appeared beneath a double rainbow and started tap dancing. | Penny Reid | ||
| 24cfa8d | I didn't care about embarrassing myself further. What was one more debit of mortification when my balance sheet was already in the red by hundreds of thousands? | Penny Reid | ||
| f9c41ae | Dammit, Billy. You had one job. One. Job. I moved my glare to my brother. "May I have a word?" "Now?" he asked, looking and sounding almost delighted. Of note, delighted for Billy was imperturbably stoic for everyone else. "Yes. Now." I bared my teeth in a grin. Billy's eyes moved between mine and I cursed his fastidious grooming. He'd taken extra care with the beard trimmer this afternoon. He also smelled like a profligate, cologne, and un.. | Penny Reid | ||
| fd662d0 | we're having a big wedding so we can be miserable together before we're happy together. | Penny Reid | ||
| c344a78 | I just feel sorry for men now. It must be frustrating to be so feeble and limited. | romance | Penny Reid | |
| f32c16a | Very clever of him to give me something my heart didn't know it wanted in exchange for a promise. | Penny Reid | ||
| f7e5c6b | My head said no and my vagina said yes and my heart said | Penny Reid |