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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 70d806e | Don't get me wrong: grief sucks; it really does. Unfortunately, though, avoiding it robs us of life, of the now, of a sense of living spirit. | Anne Lamott | ||
| cd55002 | when humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence. | forest god rainbow | Anne Lamott | |
| ed02d53 | why do we make it all seem like a crisis, over and over again? Why do we worry it all to death, like dogs with socks or chew-toys? 'Look at it this way...In a hundred years? - All new people. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f0cc102 | What if you wake up at sixty and realize that you forgot to wake up, and you never became the person you were born to be, and now your hair is falling out? | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3099769 | Opening myself to my own love and to life's tough loveliness not only was the most delicious, amazing thing on earth but also was quantum. It would radiate out to a cold, hungry world. Beautiful moments heal, as do real cocoa, Pete Seeger, a walk on old fire roads. All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth were the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. You can .. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 4690bfa | Say to yourself in the kindest possible way, Look, honey, all we're going to do for now is to write a description of the river at sunrise, or the young child swimming in the pool at the club, or the first time the man sees the woman he will marry. That is all we are going to do for now. We are just going to take this bird by bird. But we are going to finish this one short assignment. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 9839f5b | If you want to change the way you feel about people, you have to change the way you treat them. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8383e75 | But when someone enters that valley with you, that mud, it somehow saves you again. | Anne Lamott | ||
| b8b5ccf | Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8955fa2 | I learned that opening myself to my own love and to life's tough loveliness not only was the most delicious, amazing thing on earth but also was quantum. It would radiate out to a cold, hungry world. Beautiful moments heal, as do real cocoa, Pete Seeger, a walk on old fire roads. | Anne Lamott | ||
| eb84cf6 | I mean "God" as Jane Kenyon described God: "I am food on the prisoner's plate . . . / the patient gardener / of the dry and weedy garden . . . / the stone step, / the latch, and the working hinge." I mean "God" as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves." -- | Anne Lamott | ||
| 1878e66 | Violence of any kind, once it starts, is like fucking a gorilla-you ain't done till the gorilla's done. | Craig Ferguson | ||
| 607f389 | Craig: 'When I used to drink, I binge drank...and I'm kind of like that with Doctor Who. I save up a lot of it on the DVR and then like I get my big scarf on and my hat and I stay at home and just watch them.' | humor | Craig Ferguson | |
| 37b6670 | The truth is that Leon, like a lot of those-maybe everyone-who trips on acid, never really came back. he recovered but he was never the same guy again. He had lost something-innocence of hell. Acid presses a little button in your mind that should never be pressed | acid-trips drugs | Craig Ferguson | |
| dffd8ba | The clocks understood, they kept moving, motion, following the truth that change is the nature of God's mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain. | clocks god | Craig Ferguson | |
| 72cd2c2 | It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace. | Ruth Rendell | ||
| c9fe539 | You make someone into a object of - not so much of pity as of weakness, sickness, stupidity, inefectiveness, do you see what I mean? You hit them for their stupidity and their inability to respond, and when you've hurt them, marked them, they're even more sick and ugly, aren't they? And they're afraid and cringing too. Oh, I know this isn't very pleasant, but you did ask." "Go on" he said. "So you've got a frightened, stupid, even disabled .. | hatred injustice prejudice violence | Ruth Rendell | |
| b706e08 | then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven. | Reginald Hill | ||
| d89c45c | As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the moods, the scents, the subtle, mysterious light, the poetry, the heightened expectations, the kind of beauty that made your heart miss a beat - well, that remained the monsoon. | monsoon travel | Alexander Frater | |
| c2db8ce | What a strange thing to consider imagining a world into being with nothing but words, intention, and desire. | imagination words writing | Blake Crouch | |
| b0e82da | This is best illustrated by looking up into the night sky at stars whose brilliance took fifty light-years to reach our eyes. Or five hundred. Or five billion. We're not just looking into space, we're looking back through time. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 8e690f8 | It crouches like a spider, waiting for us ti get close enough, pretending to be inanimate. | Kendare Blake | ||
| c0c52c4 | He has made peace with the idea that part of life is facing your failures, and sometimes those failures are people you once loved. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 981787c | Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 8b7b54f | His father asked Ethan in a raspy voice, "You spend time with your son?" "Much as I can," he'd answered, but his father had caught the lie in his eyes. "It'll be your loss, Ethan. Day'll come, when he's grown and it's too late, that you'd give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy. To hold him. Read a book to him. Throw a ball with a person in whose eyes you can do no wrong. He doesn't see your failings yet. He.. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 47d5b5d | I assumed that in this moment I'd be terrified of walking into a new world, but I'm not afraid at all. I'm filled with a childlike excitement to see what comes next. As long as my people are with me, I'm ready for anything. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 4ff2125 | Day'll come, when he's grown and it's too late, that you'd give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy. To hold him. Read a book to him. Throw a ball with a person in whose eyes you can do no wrong. He doesn't see your failings yet. He looks at you with pure love and it won't last, so you revel in it while it's here. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 1a1768f | Every relationship seems simple at its start. Two people listening to each other, two shells meeting each other, making one world between them. There are no others in the perfect unity of that instant, no other people or things or interests. It is free of ties or claims, unburdened by responsibilities, by worry about the future or debts to the past. And then how swiftly, how inevitably the perfect unity is invaded; the relationship changes;.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 7924f2f | You look ho-ot. Sure you don't wanna drop this vampire business and join the Pack? We've got better . . . insurance. | merit | Chloe Neill | |
| 5e273e7 | Sometimes," my grandfather put in, "even if you can't be what you want, making the most of what you be isn't a bad second choice. You have a chance to remake yourself, baby girl." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 3c4e58f | He has to pay people who have a sense of humor. Since he's lacking one," I added, when Ethan didn't laugh. "I understood the joke, Merit," he quietly said, sparkling emerald eyes on me as we began to sway. "I didn't find it funny." "Yes, well, your sense of humor leaves something to be desired." Ethan spun me out and away, then pulled me back again. Stuck-up or not, I had to give him props--the boy could move. "My sense of humor is perfectl.. | merit | Chloe Neill | |
| 42fa2bf | I ignored the teasing tone of the man who stood beside me, the four-hundred-year-old Master vampire who ruled Chicago's Cadogan House and the parts of my heart that weren't devoted to great books and good pizza. | Chloe Neill | ||
| b6f2838 | I gripped the hem of his shirt and pulled it upward and over his head,taking a long moment to enjoy the view:smooth,eternally golden skin over lean muscle. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 2f8309d | Screw them," Ethan finally said. After a moment of utter shock, I enjoyed my second biggest smile all night. Malik's wasn't much smaller. "I'm sorry," I said, "did you just say 'screw them'?" | merit | Chloe Neill | |
| 9525156 | There's something about the sight of a gorgeous guy in an open convertible heading in your direction that makes all bad feelings evaporate into thin air. | Daria Snadowsky | ||
| 2254f17 | If love and hate aren't true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain--if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other. | sex | Daria Snadowsky | |
| 28b9803 | Michael Parenti has observed: The objective is not just power for its own sake but power to insure plutocratic control of the planet, power to privatize and deregulate the economies of every nation in the world, to hoist upon the backs of peoples everywhere - including the people of North America - the blessings of an untrammeled 'free market' corporate capitalism. The struggle is between those who believe that the land, labor, capital, tec.. | William Blum | ||
| d0ac5d1 | all the evils in the world come not because our desires for happiness are too strong, but because they are so weak that we settle for fleeting pleasures that do not satisfy our deepest souls, but in the end destroy them. The root of all evil is that we are the kind of people who settle for the love of money instead of the love of God (1 Timothy 6:10). | John Piper | ||
| 7fa278f | Banish professionalism from our midst, Oh God, an din its place put passionate prayer, poverty of spirit, hunger for God, rigorous study of holy things, white-hot devotion to Jesus Christ, utter indifference to all material gain, and unremitting labor to rescue the perishing, perfect the saints, and glorify our sovreign Lord. Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of .. | John Piper | ||
| 568a1a8 | God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and God is not honored by it. The problem with the devil is not his theology, but his desires. Our chief end is to glorify God, the great Object. We do so most fully when we treasure him, desire him, delight in him so supremely that we let good.. | John Piper | ||
| c6a570a | Racial and ethnic segragtion is a gospel issue! Cephas' fear and wihdrawal from fellowship across ethnic lines was "not in step with the truth of the gospel." Christ had died to tear down this wall." | John Piper | ||
| e99cf71 | The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing. | John Piper | ||
| 052f0d4 | Thus, when Paul says, "Praise the Lord all you nations, and let all the peoples extol him" (Rom. 15:11), he is saying that there is something about God that is so universally praiseworthy and so profoundly beautiful and so comprehensively worth and so deeply satisfying that God will find passionate admirers in every diverse people group in the world. His true greatness will be manifest in the breadth of the diversity of those who perceive a.. | John Piper | ||
| 948a430 | The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature | John Piper |