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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7602228 | No matter how long we've walked life's pathway to mediocrity, we can always choose to switch paths. Always. It's never too late. We can find our voice. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 401b63b | Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." Personal responsibility, or proactivity, is fundamental to the first creation. Returning to the computer metaphor, Habit 1 says, "You are the programmer." Habit 2, then, .. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 80dcd60 | I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, | habits self-improvement | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 2d5b2a5 | Best way to predict your future is to create it. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 15ebea0 | Sing now, ye people of the Tower of Anor, for the Realm of Sauron is ended for ever, and the Dark Tower is thrown down. Sing and rejoice, ye people of the Tower of Guard, for your watch hath not been in vain, and the Black Gate is broken, and your King hath passed through, and he is victorious. Sing and be glad, all ye children of the West, for your King shall come again, and he shall dwell among you all the days of your life. And the Tree .. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| b2a1012 | Passion does not translate easily into good income. | calling hobby job temperament vocation | Philip Zaleski | |
| 72f60d4 | Though Isengard be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone, We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 1727fa4 | You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. The body is Consciousness; never born; never dies; only changes. The mind -- your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity -- is all that ends at death. | Dan Millman | ||
| 4fdcc7a | Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner -- a corner they never turned. And the source of it all was the human mind. | Dan Millman | ||
| f348aee | secret's value is not in what you know, but in what you do. | Dan Millman | ||
| 348c471 | Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors. -- Aunguttara Nikaya | Dan Millman | ||
| 792359c | We must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, to find that enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song. But in that dance, and in that song, the most ancient rites of our conscience fulfill themselves in the awareness of being human. --Pablo Neruda, Toward the Splendid City | Dan Millman | ||
| afb4c10 | Insanlarin basladigi butun isler boyledir: Ya baharda don olur, ya da yazin samyeli eser ve onlarda sozlerinde durmazlar." dedi Gimli. "Yine de tohumlari pek yaban gitmez." dedi Legolas. "Ve hic umulmadik bir zamanda ve zeminde yesermek icin tozun, kufun icinde gizlenirler. Insanlarin yaptiklari bizden daha cok yasayacak Gimli." "Yine de sonunda 'keske'lerden baska bir sey olmayacak tahminimce," dedi cuce. "Bu sorunun cevabini elfler bilmiy.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9864489 | Se nur gi ne devis okazi en mia epoko, - diris Frodo. - Tiel pensas ankau mi, - diris Gandalfo, - kaj tiel pensas ciuj, kiuj travivas tiajn epokojn. Sed tion ne ili decidas. Ni rajtas decidi nur tion, kion fari dum la tempo allasita al ni. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6c86362 | The scent of trees was in the air. | the-hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 3827b86 | As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light. | love | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a6fdf21 | I am very fond indeed of it, and of all the dear old Shire; but I think I need a holiday. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 324d6ab | He willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else. | humanity humans mankind | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 6f967b7 | Yes, I, Gandalf the Grey,' said the wizard solemnly. 'There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e18b221 | All about the hills the hosts of Mordor raged. The Captains of the West were foundering in a gathering sea. The sun gleamed red, and under the wings of the Nazgul the shadows of death fell dark upon the earth. Aragorn stood beneath his banner, silent and stern, as one lost in thought of things long past or far away; but his eyes gleamed like stars that shine the brighter as the night deepens. Upon the hill-top stood Gandalf, and he was whit.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 68bb538 | It was said in the First World War that the French fought for their country, the British fought for freedom of the seas, and the Americans fought for souvenirs. | Margaret Truman | ||
| c17d6c2 | The Congress ran off and left everything just as I expected they would do and now they are trying to blame me because they did nothing. I just don't believe people can be fooled that easily. | Margaret Truman | ||
| 021cf8b | Innovations usually begin life with an attempt to solve a specific problem, but once they get into circulation, they end up triggering other changes that would have been extremely difficult to predict. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 8ce8053 | Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking - and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works. | critical-thinking randomness | Steven Johnson | |
| 09eac68 | The march of technology expands the space of possibility around us, but how we explore that space is up to us. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 19cfb23 | Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn't appear for more than a hundred years. | innovation | Steven Johnson | |
| 344a713 | Humans had proven to be unusually good at learning to recognize visual patterns; we internalize our alphabets so well we don't even have to think about reading once we've learned how to do it. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 4f0f992 | That mix of order and anarchy is what we now call emergent behavior. | Steven Johnson | ||
| b3c5cc1 | Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, | Steven Johnson | ||
| 9e8f27d | An absence of information is not the same as information about an absence." We're blind to our blindness." | Steven Johnson | ||
| 2a349ff | But epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can be world-changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for posterity. | Steven Johnson | ||
| cf78709 | Por que, oh por que habre dejado mi agujero--hobbit! --decia el pobre senor Bolson, mientras se sacudia hacia arriba y abajo sobre el pobre senor Bolson, mientras se sacudia hacia arriba y abajo sobre la espalda de Bombur. --!Por que, oh por que habre traido a este pobrecito hobbit, a buscar el tesoro! --decia el desdichado Bombur que era gordo, y se bamboleaba mientras el sudor le caia en gotas de la nariz a causa del calor y el terror. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0a56901 | Now fair and marvellous was that vessel made, and it was filled with a wavering flame, pure and bright; and Earendil the Mariner sat at the helm, glistening with dust of elven-gems, and the Silmaril was bound upon his brow. Far he journeyed in that ship, even into the starless voids; but most often was he seen at morning or at evening, glimmering in sunrise or sunset, as he came back to Valinor from voyages beyond the confines of the world. | silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| f15a842 | And don't trouble yourself too much if you don't laugh at what you are about to read, for if you perk up your pink little ear, you may hear the silvery tinkling of merriment in the air, far, far away . . . . It's us, buster. | parody | Harvard Lampoon | |
| 973f771 | Era a primeira vez que Sam via uma passagem de um combate de Homens contra Homens, e nao lhe tinha agradado muito. Sentiu-se grato por nao poder ver o rosto do morto. Perguntou a si mesmo como se chamaria o homem e donde teria vindo, se era realmente mau por natureza ou que mentiras e ameacas o tinham levado a percorrer o longo caminho da sua casa ate ali, e se nao teria, na realidade, preferido continuar la em paz. | samwise-gamgee war | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7443ff4 | She had once more shown her talent for profiting by the unexpected, and dangerous theories as to the advisability of yielding to impulse were germinating under the surface of smiling attention which she continued to present to her companion. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1a12fa2 | She had been bored all the afternoon by Percy Gryce--the mere thought seemed to waken an echo of his droning voice--but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 576c193 | But she could not breathe long on the heights; there had been nothing in her training to develop any continuity of moral strength: what she craved, and really felt herself entitled to, was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest. Hitherto her intermittent impulses of resistance had sufficed to maintain her self-respect. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2e07146 | Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter. But now it's all snowed under. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 9571855 | Superficially so like them all, and so eager to outdo them in detachment and adaptability, ridiculing the prejudices he had shaken off, and the people to whom he belonged, he still kept, under his easy pliancy, the skeleton of old faiths and old fashions. "He talks every language as well as the rest of us," Susy had once said of him, "but at least he talks one language better than the others." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 21739ba | It was before him again in its completeness -- the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which never arrived at wit and the freedom to act which never made for romance. The strident setting of the restaurant, in which their table seemed set apart in a special glare of publicity, and the presence at it of little Dabham of the "Riviera Notes," .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| bfbf2f6 | and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes | Edith Wharton | ||
| 75db112 | He turned to me, full of a terrifying benevolence. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 3a8ad89 | Ice vs. fire; free choice vs. necessity; weight vs. lightness; emptiness vs. meaning...speaking of emptiness, there was a time today when my whole body felt completely devoid of life and utterly without meaning. A character in one of Edith Wharton's novels says that "the real loneliness comes from all these kind faces who only ask one to pretend..." That is how I felt today, waiting anxiously for my afternoon pick-up, only to be let down, a.. | Sarah Emily Miano |