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| e6efd85 | Spring came early that year and the sweet warm nights made her restless. She walked up and down the streets and through the park. And wherever she went, she saw a boy and a girl together; walking arm-in-arm, sitting on a park bench with their arms around each other, standing closely and in silence in a vestibule. Everyone in the world but Francie had a sweetheart or a friend. She seemed to be the only lonely one in Brooklyn. | Betty Smith | ||
| 64d1cb4 | And he asked for her whole life as simply as he'd ask for a date. And she promised away her whole life as simply as she'd offer a hand in greeting or farewell. | Betty Smith | ||
| 4acd705 | Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him. | Betty Smith | ||
| 693b4ad | you'll always come out all right - no matter what. You're like me that way.' And that's where the whole trouble is," thought Francie. "We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves. . ." | Betty Smith | ||
| 96dd0fc | No, I ain't big enough. I ain't big enough to do a thing like that. I gotta think of myself and my own kids.' He finally came to his conclusion.'Oh, what the h*ll! Them two kids is gotta live in this world. They got to get used to it. They got to learn to give and to take punishment. And by Jesus, it ain't give but take, take, take all the time in this God-damned world.'...So now, when Francie heard themselves called lousy bastards, she smi.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 07a77f5 | She adapted herself to the split-second rhythm of the New Yorker going to and from work. Getting to the office was a nervous ordeal. If she arrived one minute before nine, she was a free person. If she arrived one minute after, she worried because that made her the logical scapegoat of the boss if he happened to be in a bad mood that day. | Betty Smith | ||
| abe96b5 | Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. "You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you're making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up... | stories storytelling teachers truth writing writing-advice | Betty Smith | |
| dc095da | Anything you say may be used against you. | ben betty-smith | Betty Smith | |
| 2c31452 | They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted. | compassion suffering | Betty Smith | |
| fe2fb01 | Mexico was an interlude of magic between a chapter of defeats and an unturned page. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 5356aea | Martha: Fix the kids a drink, George. What would you like to drink, kid- kid. Nick: Honey? what would you like? Honey: Ohhhh, I don't know, dear, a little brandy maybe. "Never mix, never worry!" George: Brandy? Just brandy? Simple, simple... [George turns to Nick.] George: What about you, em... em... em... Nick: Bourbon on the rocks, if you don't mind. | Edward Albee | ||
| 44faec7 | Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads. | Edward Albee | ||
| 8de6765 | That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop. | Edward Albee | ||
| 0d2ebe5 | we are who we are because of those we we choose to love and because of those who love us | Kate Mosse | ||
| 05773c3 | And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed. | Kate Mosse | ||
| fb5ab78 | What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all. | sandrine | Kate Mosse | |
| c986ae8 | Never try to live decently, boy--not unless you're willing to open your life to tragedy and sadness. Live like a beast, and no event, no matter how harrowing, will ever be able to move you. | James Luceno | ||
| 63c596f | The power of the dark side is an illness no true Sith would wish to be cured of. | James Luceno | ||
| 6da11c4 | The Force tries to resist the callings of ravenous spirits; therefore it must be broken and made a beast of burden. It must be made to answer to one's will. | James Luceno | ||
| 9f19476 | Everybody is doing everything for themselves.... When you understand that this is true even about dying, you will never fear dying again. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| b411533 | Hemp happens to be one of the most useful, strongest, toughest, longest-lasting materials on your planet. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 11bea26 | If you are in a group whose consciousness does not reflect your own, and you are unable at this time to effectively alter the group consciousness, it is wise to leave the group, or the group could lead you. It will go where it wants to go, regardless of where you want to go. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| ed4a9ba | You are not angry when you don't get what you want, because your wanting it was simply a preference, not a necessity. You therefore have no fear associated with the possibility of not getting it. Hence, no anger. You are not angry when you see others doing what you don't want them to do, because you don't need them to do or not do any particular thing. Hence, no anger. You are not angry when someone is unkind, because you have no need for t.. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 044b19d | Intuition is the ear of the soul. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| a5c7b61 | A true Master is not the one with the most students, but one who creates the most Masters. A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders. A true king is not the one with the most subjects, but one who leads the most to royalty. A true teacher is not the one with the most knowledge, but one who causes the most others to have knowledge. And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who .. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| fa86553 | What you resist, persists. What you look at disappears. That is, it ceases to have its illusory form. You see it for what it Is. And what Is can always be changed. It is only what Is Not that cannot be changed. Therefore, to change the Isness, move into it. Do not resist it. Do not deny it. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 7098677 | that what you do to others, you do to yourself; what you fail to do for others, you fail to do for yourself; that the pain of others is your pain, and the joy of others your joy, and that when you disclaim any part of it, you disclaim a part of yourself. Now is the time to reclaim yourself. Now is the time to see yourself again | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 8a9f6a7 | Return to spirituality. Forget about religion. That statement is going to anger a lot of people. People will react to this entire book with anger...unless they do not. Why do You say, forget religion? Because it is not good for you. Understand that in order for organized religion to succeed, it has to make people believe they need it. In order for people to put faith in something else, they must first lose faith in themselves. So the first .. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| c083b9d | Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 8adf570 | Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| c401342 | This one simple change--seeking and finding peace within--could, were it undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict, prevent injustice, and bring the world to everlasting peace. There is no other formula necessary, or possible. World peace is a personal thing! What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 3666b17 | Remember this: It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 66c39d2 | Difficult as it may be for some people to imagine, God does not, we repeat here for emphasis, prefer Baptists over Hindus, Catholics over Jews, Muslims over Mormons, or any religion over any other religion. God does not even prefer those who believe in God over those who do not believe in God. These are not God's ideas. These are the ideas of human beings who think that these are God's ideas. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 620dd08 | Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 0a690ef | Success in any area of your life is not found in producing what you think you must produce on your journey, it's found in the love, the joy, the happiness, and the sense of True Self that you experience--and that others experience in their life because of you--along the way. That alone can produce the rest of what you think you are "supposed to" produce." | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| e6713d7 | Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs. Do this sincerely--not because you seek personal gain, but because you really want the other person to have that--and all the things you give away will come to you. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 2452d3d | History is supposed to be an accurate, and full, account of what actually happened. Politics is never about what actually happened. Politics is always one's point of view about what happened. History reveals, politics justifies. History uncovers; tells all. Politics covers; tells only one side. Politicians hate history truly written. And history, truly written, speaks not so well of politicians, either. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 957f62d | Words may help you understand something. Experience allows you to know. Yet there are some things you cannot experience. So I have given you other tools of knowing. And these are called feelings. And so too, thoughts. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 63fcbdf | The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to. The astonishment is not only that a Hitler came along, but also that so many others went along. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 79ea782 | The central question in ANY decision is, "What would love do now?" Love for yourself, and love for all others who are affected or involved. If you love another, you will not do anything that you believe could or would hurt that person. If there is any question or doubt, you will wait until you can get to clarity on the matter." -- | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 5591bea | STEPHEN MILLER The ideological zampolit of the Trump administration, Stephen Miller is brilliant, dangerous, and also needs to spend a week getting laid. My God, does it show. All that pent-up fury at Mexicans and Muslims is a bad look on anyone. One-time college besties with pudgy racist thought leader Richard Spencer, Miller is the thinking man's racist on Team Trump. | Rick Wilson | ||
| b5ece29 | I don't like to abuse alcohol-anything you abuse will abuse you back. | Michka Assayas | ||
| f000e79 | A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono) | Bono | ||
| 224c00c | Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives | Michka Assayas |