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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0f7f1b8 | There will never be another caterpillar just like this one. there will never be another such moment of time, another such conjunction. These things sneak up on him for no reason, flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 4a73caa | Suddenly revenge is so close he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak, rare. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| afc3ea2 | It's strange to remember how we used to think, as if everything were available to us, as if there were no contingencies, no boundaries; as if we were free to shape and reshape forever the everexpanding perimeters of our lives. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 8fc42f7 | She's been a distraction for him, but not a necessity of life. More like a super-strong mint: intense while it lasted, but quickly finished. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 269ebab | Fear is a powerful stimulant. | motivation | Margaret Atwood | |
| 897a0a7 | We are containers, it's only the insides of our bodies that are important. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 189b239 | I betook myself to these solitudes, resolved to end here the life I hated as if it were my mortal enemy. But fate would not rid me of it, contenting itself with robbing me of my reason, | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 3c5df28 | Only make yourself honey and the flies will suck you. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 1af9edb | since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them deviate from the path of the truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, repository of great deeds, witness to the past, example and adviser to the present, and forewarning to the future. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 1969139 | to retire is not to flee, and there is no wisdom in waiting when danger outweighs hope, and it is the part of wise men to preserve themselves to-day for to-morrow, and not risk all in one day. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 3b3d803 | in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner. | satire | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | |
| 612684d | for the truth may run fine but will not break, and always rises above falsehood as oil above water; | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 5f8c42d | After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it. | battle-of-the-sexes don-quixote dorothea humor life love lust pleasure sex truth | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | |
| b2749b2 | Lifting up his hand to her, he said, "Here, madam, take the hand, or rather, as I may say, the executioner of all earthy miscreants-take, I say, that hand which never woman touched before; no, not even she herself who has entire possession of my whole body; nor do I hold it up to you that you may kiss it, but that you may observe the contexture of the sinews, the ligament of the muscles, and the largeness and dilation of the veins; whence y.. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 6530f15 | But I have heard it said," said Don Quixote, "that troubles take wing for the man who can sing." | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| a9745b7 | friend to friend no more draws near, and the jester's cane has become a spear | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| bd3709c | That is the nature of women," said Don Quixote. "They reject the man who loves them and love the man who despises them." | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 0c43673 | I'm a peaceful, mild, and quiet man, and I know how to conceal any insult because I have a wife and children to support and care for. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| f60c1c4 | But when tomorrow came, the children had more than bread and milk, as you will soon see. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 669ab75 | All is tedious, in this relation that is forced upon me. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 0312632 | I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but, gentlemen, these men are not in the race. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 3c2967e | A man depends largely on woman for the light in the family as he is not well equipped at finding meaning for himself. Life is often dry and barren for him unless someone bestows meaning on life for him. With a few words, a woman can give meaning to a whole day's struggle and a man will be so grateful. A man knows and wants this; he will edge up to it, initiate little occasions so that a woman can shed some light for him. When he comes home .. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| 02e3c22 | Children come into the world with that sense of celebration and delight in the awesomeness of life. Then we eat of that wonderful, terrible fruit depicted in the story of the Garden of Eden, and our lives become divided. In childhood we have innocent wholeness, which then is transformed into informed separateness. If one is lucky, a second transformation occurs later in life, a transformation into informed wholeness. A proverb puts it this .. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| df68d97 | You will treat yourself and others according to the way you think God feels about you. | Jack Frost | ||
| c8aba14 | Those arms make me feel safe. He's always made me feel safe. And it's still a goddamn lie. There is nothing about Jack Frost that is safe. | firstloves jackfrost | Heather R. Blair | |
| bd6bd6d | Each person brings sound out of silence and coaxes the invisible to become visible. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 0a33324 | If you have everything the world has to offer you, but you do not have love, then you are the poorest of the poorest of the poor. | John O'Donohue | ||
| c7272bd | The human journey is a continuous act of transfiguration. | John O'Donohue | ||
| fdafbec | The restlessness in the human heart will never be finally stilled by any person, project, or place. The longing is eternal. This is what constantly qualifies and enlarges our circles of belonging. There is a constant and vital tension between longing and belonging. Without the shelter of belonging, our longings would lack direction, focus, and context; they would be aimless and haunted, constantly tugging the heart in a myriad of opposing d.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 822e417 | Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plenitude, and distance becomes intimacy. | John O'Donohue | ||
| f77b3c1 | love is anything but sentimental. In fact, it is the most real and creative form of human presence. Love is the threshold where divine and human presence ebb and flow into each other. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 561edca | Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. RUMI IN | John O'Donohue | ||
| 17b3673 | Perhaps the art of harvesting the secret riches of our lives is best achieved when we place profound trust in the act of beginning. Risk might be our greatest ally. To live a truly creative life, we always need to cast a critical look at where we presently are, attempting always to discern where we have become stagnant and where new beginning might be ripening. There can be no growth if we do not remain open and vulnerable to what is new an.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| e063b8d | One of the greatest treasures in the world is a contented heart. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 0fe46c9 | BEANNACHT For Josie On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the gray window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colors, indigo, red, green and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight. When the canvas frays in the curach of thought and a stain of ocean blackens beneath you, may there come across the waters a path of.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| a784a93 | Some people are afraid of being themselves. Many people allow their lives to be limited by that fear. They play a continual game, fashioning a careful persona that they think the world will accept or admire. Even when they are in their solitude, they remain afraid of meeting themselves. One of the most sacred duties of one's destiny is the duty to be yourself. When you come to accept yourself and like yourself, you learn not to be afraid of.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| deddc35 | Beauty is a free spirit and will not be trapped within the grid of intentionality. | John O'Donohue | ||
| c254fc9 | The suck part about falling is that eventual crash landing. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 6e5c07e | The blonde checks out the legs of the car like Pigpen checks out the legs of my English teacher--like a dog in heat. | ms-whitlock pigpen | Katie McGarry | |
| 2ae10b1 | Pigpen's been tearing through the cabin, the yard, the clubhouse like a toddler on the warpath. | pigpen violet | Katie McGarry | |
| e5c5274 | I'm going to say this slowly and use little words in the hope you can follow along. If you call me Elisabeth again, I'll make sure you can never father children. Tell anyone else whose niece I am and you'll be sucking air out of a tube in your throat." Chris laughs and it's the deep, throaty kind that tells me the shit we're entering is bad." | Katie McGarry | ||
| 0161e65 | The worst kind of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see- the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. | katie-mcgarry lost pushing-the-limits saddness soul | Katie McGarry | |
| 5a5add8 | He brought up that game like it was yesterday. For me, it was eons ago. Those memories belonged to a boy who died alongside his parents in a house fire. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 380922d | Echo placed the expertly folded blanket back on the couch and smoothed it several times, insisting on finding perfection in a world where none existed. | pushing-the-limits true-story | Katie McGarry |