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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dfd1237 | Life itself is a journey after all, and what matters most is not what you are getting, but who you are becoming. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| c1b53b5 | You will never be able to eliminate a weakness you don't even know about. The first step to eliminating a negative habit is to become aware of it. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 301d293 | Success cannot be pursued; success ensues. It flows as the unintended byproduct of efforts concentrated in the direction of a worthy cause. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 92bb5c4 | To breathe properly is to live properly. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 15634b8 | The sight of an achievement is the greatest gift a human being could offer others. --AYN RAND | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 9fa35df | The sun rejuvenates me. When I grow tired, it keeps my mood bright. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| b3edd99 | No matter what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to it. When you form the habit of searching for the positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest dimensions. This is one of the greatest of all the natural laws. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 39fe910 | If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| a58b6cd | Zivljenje ti ne da vedno tistega, za kar prosis, vedno pa ti da tisto, kar potrebujes! | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| d0669d6 | The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing. And if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| b70d011 | l`ql khdm ry'` , wlknh syd bsh` | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 5e7b008 | We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 3d665c8 | Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 48eea54 | She looks really happy." "Everyone looks happy on Facebook." "I know, right? What's up with that?" | social-networking-virtual | Harlan Coben | |
| 01d23a4 | Grief is devastating, all-consuming. But grief merely visits friends, even the closest. It stays much longer, probably forever, with the family, but that was probably how it should be. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 6943b2e | War is never a meritocracy for the casualties. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 3b99ddd | Well-meaning friends ' often the worst kind ' handed me the usual clich+!s, and so I feel in a pretty good position to warn you: Just offer your deepest condolences. Don't tell me I'm young. Don't tell me it'll get better. Don't tell me she's in a better place. Don't tell me it's part of some divine plan. Don't tell me that I was lucky to have known such a love. Every one of those platitudes pissed me off. They made me ' and this is going t.. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 1907bf3 | They - bliss and fear - are constant companions. Rarely does one venture out without the other. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 7fbc3a5 | We get mad at someone for cutting us off in traffic or for taking too long to order at Starbucks or for not responding exactly as we see fit, and we have no idea that behind their facade, they may be dealing with some industrial-strength shit. Their lives may be in pieces. They may be in the midst of incalculable tragedy and turmoil, and they may be hanging on to their sanity by a thread. | Harlan Coben | ||
| e4d1b45 | I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac. | Harlan Coben | ||
| bf64de5 | I'd rather read than relax. I'd rather keep the mind engaged. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 57d045d | closely--you can't have a front without a back, you can't have an up without a down, and I'm not sure you can have light without dark, purity without sleaze, good without evil. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 5fee666 | Right now, even though he'd been dead for years, she wanted to collapse in her father's big arms and hear him tell her that everything would be all right. Do we ever outgrow that need? | Harlan Coben | ||
| ba2547d | Hope could be a wonderful thing. But hope could crush you anew every single day. Hope could be the cruelest thing in the world. | life | Harlan Coben | |
| eae7ca2 | The sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. Lucy knows that, of course. You can't prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 7b1bdf7 | Telling someone who was clinically depressed, for example, to shake it off and get out of the house was tantamount to telling a man with two broken legs to sprint across the room. That was all well and good in theory, but in practice, the stigma continued. | Harlan Coben | ||
| e68439c | If you give desperation any wiggle room, it will toy with you. | Harlan Coben | ||
| f5334d4 | Bugs would eat the wax. Chaw the old canvas. And one day there will be a mutation, and we will have new ones that can digest concrete, dissolve steel and suck up the acid puddles, fatten on magic plastics, lick their slow way through glass. Then the cities will tumble and man will be chased back into the sea from which he came... | John D. MacDonald | ||
| a19aab7 | How old is she now?" "Oh, she's twenty now." She hesitated. She was obligated to end our little chat with a stylized flourish. The way it's done in serial television. So she wet her little bunny mouth, sleepied her eyes, widened her nostrils, patted her hair, arched her back, stood canted and hip-shot, huskied her voice and said, "See you aroun', huh?" "Sure, Marianne. Sure." Bless them all, the forlorn little rabbits. They are the displace.. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| d8d10d2 | Now, of course, having failed in every attempt to subdue the Glades by frontal attack, we are slowly killing it off by tapping the River of Grass. In the questionable name of progress, the state in its vast wisdom lets every two-bit developer divert the flow into drag-lined canals that give him 'waterfront' lots to sell. As far north as Corkscrew Swamp, virgin stands of ancient bald cypress are dying. All the area north of Copeland had been.. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| 7f8bc60 | It would be one kind of penance. And there are never enough kinds. Not for him. Not for me. And certainly not for you, my friend. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| 4e26337 | It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and many in the West began to portray the "savage" as European rather than as some native in the jungle." | David Grann | ||
| 8022e79 | It isn't about the welfare check. It never was. It isn't about sexual permissiveness, or personal morality, or failures in parenting, or lack of family planning. All of these are inherent in the disaster, but the purposefulness with which babies make babies in places like West Baltimore goes far beyond accident and chance, circumstance and misunderstanding. It's about more than the sexual drives of adolescents, too, though that might be har.. | David Simon | ||
| 5ab877e | People're always buried facing west, so at the end of time when the Last Trumpet blows, all the dead people'll claw their way up and walk due west to the throne of Jesus to be judged. . . . Suicides, mind, get buried facing north. They won't be able to find Jesus 'cause dead people only walk in straight lines. . . . Isn't god better than one who does that to people? | north suicide west | David Mitchell | |
| 8f3d166 | If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable. | autonomy bahrain iraq iraq-war kurdish-people kurdistan morality royalty statehood | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 028d625 | I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events, or who have a decent expectation of anonymity, or who are such appalling public shits that they have forfeited their right to bitch. | autobiography | Christopher Hitchens | |
| d32225d | Americans. They came right out with things. Hitchens family lore related the tale of how once, when I was but a toddler, my parents were passing with me through an airport and ran into some Yanks. 'Real cute kid,' said these big and brash people without troubling to make a formal introduction. They insisted on photographing me and, before breaking off to resume their American lives, pressed into my dimpled fist a signed dollar bill in token.. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| db5ba57 | It doesn't happen to me anymore, because a fresh generation of Africans and Asians has arisen to take over the business, but in my early years in Washington, D.C., I would often find myself in the back of a big beat-up old cab driven by an African-American veteran. I became used to the formalities of the : on some hot and drowsy Dixie-like afternoon I would flag down a flaking Chevy. Behind the wheel, leaning wa-aay back and relaxed, often.. | england united-states world-war-ii | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 2507861 | How sad to be a woman--not to know Aught of the glory of this breast of snow, All unconcerned to comb this mighty hair; To be a woman and yet never know! Were I a woman, I would all day long Sing my own beauty in some holy song, Bend low before it, hushed and half afraid, And say "I am a woman" all day long." | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| db248a8 | It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world. | cemetery death lyonesse tombstones wrocław | Christopher Hitchens | |
| c779cb5 | I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty. | isolationism middle-east noninterventionism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 5c2db55 | I am sometimes asked about the concept or definition of a 'public intellectual,' and though I find the whole idea faintly silly, I believe it should ideally mean that the person so identified is self-sustaining and autonomously financed. Susan was pre-eminently one such. | susan-sontag | Christopher Hitchens | |
| d12b120 | The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, during the mass slaughter in the country. 'The terms Hutu and Tutsi,' he said severely, 'are merely ideological constructs, describing different relationships to the means and mode of production.' But of course! | ideology marxism rwanda rwandan-genocide rwandan-patriotic-front tutsis | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 702b062 | What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so . I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the .. | eastern-european ernest-gellner ethnic-cleansing genocide germans holocaust jews nazism poland revenge stalin stalinism war world-war-ii | Christopher Hitchens |