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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ec3aefb | You snatch from life what you can while you are young, for if you wait for better times to come tomorrow, you wait in vain. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 75f3107 | If you work to obtain your goal, and realize from the very beginning that nothing valuable comes easily, and still forge ahead, without a doubt you'll reach your goal, whatever it is. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 01fb962 | Life is always like that--twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. So, be everlastingly grateful for those rare two seconds and appreciate; appreciate what good you can find, no matter what the cost. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 026faa8 | She's a beautiful flower put in a pot and hidden in a closet. You can't keep her a little girl forever. | V.C.Andrews | ||
| 298a55c | If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings | V.C.Andrews | ||
| 91b1da6 | At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer--and gold weighed a ton--and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| b1458a9 | has to be darkness if there is to be light. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| c2800f5 | Y pidio a Dios que se la tragase al suelo. Pero los suelos nunca se abren cuando deberian hacerlo. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 6090142 | there has to be darkness if there is to be light. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| e7b6849 | I was the kind of child who'd always looked for fairies dancing on the grass. I wanted to believe in witches, wizards, ogres, giants, and enchanted spells. I didn't want all of the magic taken out of the world by scientific explanation. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| fad765e | I don't know if it's for the better, but I do know people aren't static. We all change from day to day. | constant people static | V.C. Andrews | |
| 382a54d | I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do. | hearbreak heartache incest loss | V.C. Andrews | |
| c3cafb7 | What is the modern mind?" asked Grant. "Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive --and faces the facts of life seriously." At this moment another roar of laughter came from within." -- | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| a093944 | No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 6f24966 | After three hours, I come back to the waiting room. It is a cosmetic surgery office, so a little like a hotel lobby, underheated and expensively decorated, with candy in little dishes, emerald-green plush chairs, and upscale fashion magazines artfully displayed against the wall. | trans transexual transgender | Joan Nestle Riki Anne Wilchins Clare Howell | |
| d449536 | The man who became of his understanding of the laws of wealth, acquireth a growing surplus, should give thought to those future days. He should plan certain investments or provisions that may endure safely for many years, yet will be available when the time arrives which he has so wisely anticipated. | George S. Clason | ||
| cb87f9d | m trGb fyh kl mr'@ hw 'n yHbh zwjh | George S. Clason | ||
| 58d6981 | Make sure you don't lose your heart living with Robert Morgan. Make sure he doesn't use up all the very best parts of you. | Tiffany Baker | ||
| d2725b3 | Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles." "That comes--as you call it--of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor." | dr-livesey | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 506e93a | In Texas, rocks are considered an adequate weaponry during schoolyard scuffles. Dallas children carry a brace of loaded pistols, a concealed Derringer, and a 6 inch Toadsticker in one boot. That's the girls of course. Boys bring howitzers to class. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| a872053 | I movin' to Arizona! Dammit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions. | humor scorpions | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 1098c5c | It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering? | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 6446b1d | It is the human condition to ask questions like Anne's last night and to receive no plain answers," he said. "Perhaps this is because we can't understand the answers, because we are incapable of knowing God's ways and God's thoughts. We are, after all, only very clever tailless primates, doing the best we can, but limited. Perhaps we must all own up to being agnostic, unable to know the unknowable." | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 8ab7ed1 | I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religions into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| edfb81e | Dust rises at every step, fine as flour. It is dried river silt, that dust. Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 0a511fe | Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the ancient dance of numbers: two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and a new life took root and began to grow. And thus the generations past were joined to the unknowable future. | birth family love | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 80e4489 | They strolled toward town, stopping now and then to let him catch his breath and to gaze upward, for the west Kansas sky is black velvet on clear, cool December nights, and the Milky Way is strung across it like the diamond necklace of a crooked banker's mistress. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 201ca1b | IF YOU WANT A STORYBOOK ENDING, stop--now--and remember them in that tender moment. Be content to know that they embarked on a series of adventures throughout the West and that they stayed together through thick and thin for forty-five years. But know this as well: If their story ended here, no one would remember them at all. Where a tale begins and where it ends matters. Who tells the story, and why . . . That makes all the difference. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 3e68582 | I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| e4eef90 | To leave the apple unpicked--that was sin. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 038bf0b | Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| e3523e2 | My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be. | mindfulness | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 509b96f | Love changes," she replied. "When the flame dies, the glow remains, but it no longer centers upon one human creature and it warms the whole soul. Then the soul looks at all human creatures with love diffused." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 9e776e9 | None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| a0486d4 | I am always moved, with grateful wonder, by the goodness of people. For the few who are prying or meanly critical, for the very few who rejoice in the grief of others, there are the thousands who are kind. I have come to believe that the natural human heart is good, and I have observed that this goodness is found in all varieties of people, and that it can and does prevail in spite of other corruptions. This human goodness alone provides ho.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 0096426 | And as she had learned to do, while she pondered on large things, she acted on small ones. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 3609a8b | Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 62b00d1 | But hers was a strange heart, sad in its very nature, and she could never weep and ease it as other women do, for her tears never brought her comfort. | grief-and-loss grieving sad-love sadness tears | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 23cd8c9 | Then Wang Lung turned to the woman and looked at her for the first time. She had a square, honest face, a short, broad nose with large black nostrils, and her mouth was wide as a gash in her face. Her eyes were small and of a dull black in color, and were filled with some sadness that was not clearly expressed. It was a face that seemed habitually silent and unspeaking, as though it could not speak if it would. She bore patiently Wang Lung'.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| db81697 | Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| a826071 | comment about his condition was taken from: Pearl S. Buck, (1892-1973), recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938, said the following about Highly Sensitive People: "The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a love.. | Pepper Winters | ||
| 3f5b43e | It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| e525d22 | les gens se sentent seuls quand ils revent . | rêve seul | Pearl S. Buck | |
| b8c121b | Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it. | new-york pearl-s-buck quotes-about-life rann the-eternal-wonder | Pearl S. Buck |