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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b552fd | Can't a Jedi Knight express himself around here anymore?" -Jacen "Of course, but half a dozen times should be sufficient." - Luke" | Troy Denning | ||
| c61d8d4 | My grandmother simply shook her head and said, "You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you." | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 7da421b | I am a woman with wings,' I once wrote and will revise these words again. 'I am a woman with wings dancing with other women with wings.' In a voiced community, we all flourish. | feminism inspirational women | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 8dca8d9 | Our ability to travel is a privilege. But it is also a choice. Money is time. Where do we spend out time? Wilderness is not my leisure or my recreation. It is my sanity. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 9270707 | Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot - the taproot of consciousness. It will survive us. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 6514db3 | We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay. Life spirals in and then spirals out on any given day. It does not have to be one way, one truth, one voice. Nor does love have to be all or nothing. Neither does power. What is positive and what is negative is not absolute. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| a3d8e83 | I want you to read 'God Sees the Truth, but Waits,' " said Mother. "Tolstoy writes about a man, wrongly accused of a murder, who spends the rest of his life in a prison camp. Twenty-six years later, as a convict in Siberia, he meets the true murderer and has an opportunity to free himself, but chooses not to. His longing for home leaves him and he dies." I ask Mother why this story matters to her. "Each of us must face our own Siberia," she.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 65e9781 | When I was a young woman with four children, I was always living ahead of myself," she said. "Everything I was doing was projected toward the future, and I was so busy, busy, busy, preparing for tomorrow, for the next week, for the next month. Then one day, it all changed. At thirty-eight years old, I found I had breast cancer. I can remember asking my doctor what I should plan for in my future. He said, 'Diane, my advice to you is to live .. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 9b25b63 | Boundaries are fears made manifest, designed to protect us. I don't want protection, I want freedom. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 6a95516 | One of the many problems with aging is that you begin to think of yourself as a slob because your birthday suit can never be cleaned or pressed no matter how spotted or wrinkled it gets | birthday-suit wrinkles | Bob Smith | |
| afb8466 | We can't all be Superman, but we sure as shit can train hard, and with loads of practice, we can be Batman. And who the fuck doesn't wanna be Batman? Batman has an impeccable moral compass, he's clever and mysterious, and when fucktards get sassy, he punches them in the face. | Kevin Smith | ||
| e1c5d6e | important--unimportant--unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 3666d65 | Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail, 'There's a porpoise close behind us and he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| f5e65a6 | her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time with the words 'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips. 'I know SOMETHING interesting is sure to happen,' she said to herself, 'whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll just see what this bottle does. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 679222e | said the Knave, "I didn't write it and they can't prove that I did; there's no name signed at the end." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 2eab7d0 | Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 8e4d1dc | It's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding! | humour lewis-carroll | Lewis Carroll | |
| fd76746 | How is it you can talk so nicely?' Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment. 'I've been in many gardens before, but none of the flowers could talk.' 'Put your hand down, and feel the ground,' said the Tiger-lily. 'Then you'll know why.' Alice did so. 'It's very hard,' she said, 'but I don't see what that has to do with it.' 'In most gardens,' the Tiger-lily said, 'they make the beds too soft - so that the flowers ar.. | flowers humor plants | Lewis Carroll | |
| 8838ade | Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 2bb19ef | Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| ffbba22 | The Mad Gardener's Song He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, 'The bitterness of Life!' He thought he saw a Buffalo Upon the chimney-piece: He looked again, and found it was His Sister's Husband's Niece. 'Unless you leave this house,' he said, 'I'll send for the Police!' He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in G.. | sight | Lewis Carroll | |
| f8d4785 | If you don't know where you are going it doesn't matter which road you take. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| bcae995 | You are old, Father William,' the young man said, 'And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head-- Do you think, at your age, it is right?' 'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son, 'I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.' 'You are old,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before, And have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet y.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| b864156 | So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 90510c4 | Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 3cba717 | When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 7b868cb | E entao a duquesa disse: A moral disso e, tome conta do sentido e os sons tomarao conta de si mesmos. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 15d0ddc | The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| a72d648 | whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 07c66f3 | But I'm not a serpent, I tell you!" said Alice. "I'm a --- I'm a ---." "Well! What are you?" said the Pigeon. "I can see you're trying to invent something!" | Lewis Carroll | ||
| e530fd3 | JABBERWOCKY 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he st.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 379b506 | it seems to fill my head with ideas--only I don't exactly know what they are! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 40a7b81 | I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.' 'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 4381e72 | Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the imagination of man, from which it derived. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 0906d50 | As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside. | Philip Yancey | ||
| a948270 | the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy. | Philip Yancey | ||
| ebd2774 | No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 8b5e496 | The fact that Jesus came to earth where he suffered and died does not remove pain from our lives. But it does show that God did not sit idly by and watch us suffer in isolation. He became one of us. Thus, in Jesus, God gives us an up-close and personal look at his response to human suffering. All our questions about God and suffering should, in fact, be filtered through what we know about Jesus. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 6735200 | Is God somehow responsible for the suffering of this world? In this indirect way, yes. But giving a child a pair of ice skates, knowing that he may fall, is a very different matter from knocking him down on the ice. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 4c04dea | To put the issue bluntly, are the Beatitudes true? If so, why doesn't the church encourage poverty and mourning and meekness and persecution instead of striving against them? What is the real meaning of the Beatitudes, this cryptic ethical core of Jesus' teaching? | Philip Yancey | ||
| fa8dcd0 | It was not pastoral teaching, or small group fellowship, or worship services, or books of theology -- rather, they mentioned suffering. "People said they grew more during seasons of loss, pain, and crisis than they did at any other time." We discover the hidden value of suffering only by suffering -- not as part of God's original or ultimate plan for us, but as a redemptive transformation that takes place in the midst of trial." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 0284cbe | Maybe God isn't trying to tell us anything specific each time we hurt. Pain and suffering are part and parcel of our planet, and Christians are not exempt. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 8f45c42 | That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, "Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 5c1856a | For us who are Christians, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is proof positive that love is stronger than hate, that life is stronger than death, that light is stronger than darkness, that laughter and joy, and compassion and gentleness and truth, all these are so much stronger than their ghastly counterparts. | Philip Yancey |