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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0e997f6 | Civilizations... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of beliefs. | bullshit civilization philosophy | Harry G. Frankfurt | |
| 238f6eb | Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers. | Nick Flynn | ||
| 2324236 | In addition to the gremlins, another thing that gets in the way of meaningful work is the struggle to define who we are and what we do in an honest way. In a world that values the primacy of work, the most common question that we ask and get asked is, "What do you do?" I used to wince every time someone asked me this question. I felt like my choices were to reduce myself to an easily digestible sound bite or to confuse the hell out of peopl.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 3476817 | Daring greatly is not about winning or losing. It's about courage. | Brené Brown | ||
| 19d07b5 | The opposite of scarcity is not abundance; the opposite of scarcity is simply enough. | Brené Brown | ||
| 1d1267c | Heroics is often about putting our life on the line. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's pretty extraordinary. | vulnerability | Brené Brown | |
| f9d8ad2 | And in case I'm feeling more ornery than usual, I have a little Post-it Note under my tightrope picture that reads, "Cruelty is cheap, easy, and chickenshit." That's also a touchstone of my spiritual beliefs." | Brené Brown | ||
| d22dee4 | Many of us will spend our entire lives trying to slog through the shame swampland to get to a place where we can give ourselves permission to both be imperfect and to believe we are enough. | Brené Brown | ||
| 311938f | Cassandra Dahnke and Tomas Spath, write: Civility is claiming and caring for one's identity, needs, and beliefs without degrading someone else's in the process....[Civility] is about disagreeing without disrespect, seeking common ground as a starting point for dialogue about differences, listening past one's preconceptions, and teaching others to do the same. Civility is the hard work of staying present even with those with whom we have dee.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 1f070df | Brene Brown has found through her research that women tend to feel shame around the idea of being "never enough": at home, at work, in bed. Never pretty enough, never smart enough, never thin enough, never good enough. Men tend to feel shame around the fear of being "perceived as weak," or more academically: fear of being called a pussy. Both sexes get trapped in the same box, for different reasons. If I ask for help, I am not enough. If I .. | Amanda Palmer | ||
| 9937a50 | we fill the nothing with suns, line them up, swallow sap, swallow field, drop by drop, each stem a pump. Rose to rose to rose to rose to rose to rose to rose, calyx & anther, all summer gone. | Nick Flynn | ||
| 53f212e | I have plenty of places to go, but no place to be. | Nick Flynn | ||
| e8ca0fc | Ask daha iyi bir adam olma istegi yaratir. Dogru bu, dogru. Ama belki ask, gercek ask ayni zamanda oldugum adam olmama da izin veriyordur. | türkçe | Gillian Flynn | |
| d4c7f17 | And I don't know, you're at that age, if a bunch of grownups are telling you something or encouraging you, it just ... it started to feel real. That Ben had molested me, because otherwise, why were all these adults trying to get me to say he had? And my parents would be all stern: It's OK to tell the truth. It's OK to tell the truth. And so you told the lie that they thought was the truth. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a7e9157 | What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer? | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 707af97 | What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f748f71 | I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I'm too self-conscious otherwise. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 2669d6e | I know I am right not to settle, | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 668efa7 | Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. With Diane, worries were almost physical beings, leechy creatures with latchhooks for fingers, meant to be vanquished immediately. Diane didn't worry, that was for less hearty women. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a5d913f | But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people--people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin--that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 04950df | We just want you to be happy.' Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how. So many lessons and opportunities and advantages, and they never taught me how to be happy. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b6b06c9 | She'd used the treasure hunt to take me on a tour of all my infidelities. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 64017f0 | Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 9323364 | I'm not someone who can be depended on five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row--I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ee2d4ad | This was my eleventh lie. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4314a00 | If you were chopping up hookers or eating runaways, you'd try to look normal. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| d424c93 | asi fue como aparecio, de la nada, mientras Rand rogaba por el regreso de su hija: una sonrisa de asesino. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 7cfd3f6 | Arkadaslar birbirlerinin kusurlarini gorur. Eslerse birbirlerinin en kuytu kusurlarini bilir. | türkçe | Gillian Flynn | |
| e595df2 | We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoes erupting. I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show. A fucking commercial. You know the awful singsong of th.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ba065a0 | Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done. | writing | Gillian Flynn | |
| 5857c24 | She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a708af5 | Remember that game you always played with Mom when we were little: I smacked Go? I robbed a bank? I killed someone?' I said nothing. My breath was coming too fast. 'I would still love you,' Go said. 'Go, do you really need me to say it?' She stayed silent. 'I did not kill Amy.' She stayed silent. 'Do you believe me?' I asked. 'I love you. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 51929e2 | Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 7f8827f | Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love. The pointless tasks, the myriad sacrifices, the endless small surrenders. We call these men the dancing monkeys. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 92792a7 | Everywhere I go is the river. I'm following it or it's following me. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ace9197 | Good catch," Tanner said. "Next time do it before it comes out of your mouth." | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ffd12ab | There might be a space too, for this. The feel of killing, there might be an empty spot just waiting to be filled. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 1c39b1d | I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear. | dissapear feelings people real thrown-away | Gillian Flynn | |
| cc6ab17 | And I think, "I'm so fucking lonely". I go home and cry for a while. I am almost 32. That's not old especially in New York. But the fact is it has been years since I even liked someone. So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be with anyone." | relationships | Gillian Flynn | |
| 65645ba | The climax is when you are taught the lesson that Punch never learns, and you are caught and charged with murder. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| d348275 | The truth is malleable; you just need to pick the right expert. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 321c0c2 | Every morning she'd crick herself down onto the flimsy rug by her bed and pray, but it was actually a promise: Today I won't yell, I won't cry, I won't clench up into a ball like I am waiting for a blow to level me. I will enjoy today. She might make it to lunch before she went sour. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 745f5c4 | Diary Amy. She was meant to be likable. Meant for someone like you to like her. She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment--that just anyone could like you. No matter. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 8b50359 | January was the season for house robberies and violence. Christmas was over, and the new year just reminded you of how little your life had changed, and man, people got angry in January. | Gillian Flynn |