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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7703aeb | A generous intercourse of charity united the most distant provinces, and the smaller congregations were cheerfully assisted by the alms of their more opulent brethren. Such an institution, which paid less regard to the merit than to the distress of the object, very materially conduced to the progress of Christianity. The Pagans, who were actuated by a sense of humanity, while they derided the doctrines, acknowledged the benevolence of the n.. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 283c0e6 | The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved peace by a constant preparation for war; | Edward Gibbon | ||
| 371f21d | I wondered If things that might seem frightening could lose their hold over you. I wondered If we find the people we need when we need them. I wondered If we attract our future by some sort of invisible force, or If we are drawn to it by a similar force. I felt I was turning a corner and that change was afoot. | life unexpected questions-in-life invisible | Sharon Creech | |
| ede4d59 | I pretended he was my brother, only he was better than a brother because I chose him and he chose me. --Rosie | Sharon Creech | ||
| 3fc2c02 | I don't care if the whole town comes, as long as you come, Bailey boy. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 9f86c82 | They served "Good Food" but only a G, an O and a D were lit up. Personally, I doubted God dined there. Unless God was keen on samonella poisoning and rat droppings in the hamburgers. But then again, what did I know?" | god humor hamburgers food | Julie Kenner | |
| 76607ef | If she dreamed, she did not remember when she awoke. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| f98798d | Strat yearned to imagine her without even the thin white dress, but it would not be honorable, so he prevented himself from having such a fantasy. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 5264d89 | So you're just going to give up? That's the plan. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| c0463fe | I click END. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| eeb3c45 | Rudy is a mutt; my father says he's a cross between a chihuahua and a German shepherd, which must've been some wild dog sex. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 60e58b3 | We wear our problems differently. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 050450a | You lose one friend, you pick up another. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 902d55b | then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 9cb9771 | The wall is home base. The wall won't move. If I stand at the wall, I won't be expected to move. This is what it means to be a wallflower. Now I understand. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 706690e | Why are you bothering? You've got an excuse. You've got bad blood. You must like living; I guess I would if I were you. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| a9d9024 | Don't kill yourself, okay? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 08cf873 | You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed | Ned Vizzini | ||
| baea14e | Hold on a second. I can talk,' I say. 'Guys.' I look at all three of them in turn. 'One thing that they do in here is give you a lot of time to think. I can't explain it; once you come in, time just slows down-' 'Well, you don't have any interruptions, that's probably it-' 'Also I think the clocks are a little off-' I wave my hand. 'Point is, you have time to think about how you got here... | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 6df42a4 | But you know what, it's time for me to stop putting other people's emotions ahead of my own. It's time for me to be true to myself, like the popstars say. And my true self wants to blast off this rock. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 431557d | I wish the world were like this, if I just woke up and marked the food I'd be eating and it came to me later in the day. I suppose it is like that, except you have to pay for whatever you want to eat, so maybe what I'm asking for is communism, but I think it's actually deeper than communism--I'm asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I'm asking for something that no politics is going to provide, something that.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| a048ce7 | Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| e3e030a | Maybe it was stupid and solipsistic, but I liked to think about me. I didn't want to be part of some trend. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 038ce3f | When you mess something up, you learn for the next time. | life-and-living life | Ned Vizzini | |
| 0b7971f | Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 13c3f09 | I raise my wrist, show him the bracelets. I have pride in them now. They're true, and people can't screw with them. And when you say the truth you get stronger. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| d95f414 | in my life is all in my brain, really, so it would be natural that when my brain was screwed up, everything in my life would be. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 96c0ad8 | If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| bc9d644 | Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up. | stress | Ned Vizzini | |
| b7e1657 | See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 54dcac9 | It's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. ... you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 265628b | I always thought we only had two choices in our lives when it came to pizza crust--thin and crispy, or thick and doughy. How was I to have known there could be a crust in this world that was thin and doughy? Holy of holies! Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 87ce5d4 | Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dbf0c3c | There were pages and pages of this. It was a confetti of thinking. It began nowhere, led to nothing, and concluded nothing. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 37f0c35 | And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives have the potential to breed their own brand of trouble. We are susceptible to emotional uncertainties and neuroses that are probably not very common among the Hmong, but that run rampant these days among my contemporaries in, say, Baltimore. The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bd7b351 | As humans, after all, we become that which we seek. Dairy farming makes men steady and reliable and temperate; deer hunting makes men quiet and fast and sensitive; lobster fishing makes men suspicious and wily and ruthless. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 63706c5 | Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 94f5737 | Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 60794c9 | The only unforgivable crime is to cut short the experiment of one's own life before its natural end. To do so is a weakness and a pity-- for the experiment of life will cut itself off soon enough, in all our cases, and one may just as well have the courage and the curiosity to stay in the battle until one's eventual and inevitable demise. Anything less than a fight for endurance is cowardly. Anything less than a fight for endurance is a ref.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 49947aa | In the end, what i have come to believe about God is simple. It's like this - I used to have this really great dog. She came from the pound. She was a mixture of about ten different breeds, but seemed to have inherited the finest features of them all. She was brown. When people asked me, "What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you beli.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c0e6023 | Once upon a time, Aristophanes relates, there were gods in the heavens and humans down on earth. But we humans did not look the way we look today. Instead, we each had two heads and four legs and four arms--a perfect melding, in other words, of two people joined together, seamlessly united into one being. We came in three different possible gender or sexual variations: male/female meldings, male/male meldings, and female/female meldings, de.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e1457b9 | to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. | travel sacrifice | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e260810 | Painting working! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2a87a02 | Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too). | information | Elizabeth Gilbert |