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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 341b5da | Stevens, who knew that mouth could do more thana rgue? You're a true blue friend, a red-hot lady and all that other good yearbook shit. You've got a big heart and I've got an even bigger...you know. So we're both winners. KG | Robin Wasserman | ||
| f8d0c77 | The world was full of weapons, when you cared to look. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| ea9fb60 | Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary." | illusion gatsbypoor school-teacher rich | Alison Bechdel | |
| dffe9d1 | Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom. | psychoanalysis | Alison Bechdel | |
| 78b4304 | and what appears to be every graphic memoir ever written - Jeffrey Brown, Craig Thompson, Alison Bechdel, James Kochalka, Lucy Knisley, and tons of others I've never seen before. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 8ad572c | The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 1d7fa86 | If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer, it just seems longer.'1 | Nick Lane | ||
| e38f98e | On Columbus's later voyages, his crew happily accepted godhood--until the Taino began empirically testing their divinity by forcing their heads underwater for long periods to see if the Spanish were, as gods should be, immortal. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| b748d7f | I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl. That skirt-bound race perpetually moving about serving tea had nothing to do with me. I had such high hopes, you see. The boundaries of the world seemed vast. I would visit Rome, Paris, Constantinople. Underground cafes presented in my mind where, crushed against wet walls, a (handsome, generous) friend and I sat discussing--many things. Deep things.. | identity gender | George Saunders | |
| fafc14e | Not that parents are alone in their extreme behavior. That have more than enough company among school boards and high-ranking politicians who think if you "fix the schools, they'll fix the kids." So, in Gadsden, Alabama, school officials eliminated kindergarten nap time in 2003 so the children would have more test-prep time. Two hours away in Atlanta, school officials figured that if you eliminated recess, the kids will study more. And just.. | Jim Trelease | ||
| 0acd174 | Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this. | Lincoln Child | ||
| cd7e15b | I would have to say that at least one of the things that almost killed me was becoming a professional holy person. I am not sure that the deadliness was in the job as much as it was in the way I did it, but I now have higher regard than ever for clergy who are able to wear their mantles without mistaking the fabric for their own skin. As many years as I wanted to wear a clerical collar and as hard as I worked to get one, taking it off turne.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| d8e6c43 | One of the main things that tip people toward garden-variety depression, she says, is a "low tolerance for sadness." It is the inability to bear dark emotions that causes many of our most significant problems, in other words, and not the emotions themselves. When we cannot tolerate the dark, we try all kinds of artificial lights, including but not limited to drugs, alcohol, shopping, shallow sex, and hours in front of the television set or .. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| e87e63c | Human beings have a hard time regarding anything beautiful without wanting to devour it. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| c2fe73d | Spending extended amounts of time inside other religious worldviews has loosened the screws on my own, which is beginning to seem like a good thing. Disowning God has been a great help to me. Owning my distinct view of God has helped me understand it much better. Although I can see the places where religious truth claims collide, this does not bother me as much as it could. I am far more interested in how people live than what they believe... | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 07193a2 | Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millennia - not covered in dust but evolving all the way- so that each new generation has something to choose from when it is time to ask the big questions in life. Where did we come from? Why do bad things happen to good people? Who is my neighbor? Where do we go from here? No one should have to start from scratch with questions like t.. | wisdom questions-in-life religion-spirituality | barbara brown taylor | |
| da71b6b | According to a recent article in the New York Times, few parents expose their children to those works in the original these days, and some of their reasons make sense. Who wants children growing up with the idea that stepmothers are wicked, ugly people are evil, women can get by on their beauty, and princesses are all white? At the same time, I worry about children who grow up thinking that every story has a happy ending and no one gets per.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| cbcb777 | There is an easy standoff between the two kinds of mother which sometimes makes it hard for us to talk to each other. I suspect that the non-working mother looks at the working mother with envy and fear because she thinks that the working mum has got away with it. And the working mum looks back with fear and envy because she knows that she has not. In order to keep going in either role, you have to convince yourself that the alternative is .. | Allison Pearson | ||
| 27225ee | You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever... | Allison Pearson | ||
| 6a73238 | Yet here apparently on this stifling summer afternoon was the eye of Mr. Flay at the outer keyhole of the Hall of the Bright Carvings, and presumably the rest of Mr Flay was joined on behind it. | humor mr-flay rottcodd | Mervyn Peake | |
| 3734e83 | It was obvious that their sorrows were conjoined. | cora-groan | Mervyn Peake | |
| 9ecb2c6 | It was a long head. It was a wedge, a sliver, a grotesque slice in which it seemed the features had been forced to stake their claims, and it appeared that they had done so in a great hurry and with no attempt to form any kind of symmetrical pattern for their mutual advantage. The nose had evidently been first upon the scene and had spread itself down the entire length of the wedge, beginning among the grey stubble of the hair and ending am.. | mervyn-peake steerpike | Mervyn Peake | |
| 012b253 | another comber of far pleasure followed the first, for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row upon priceless row of calf-bound Thought, of philosophy and fiction, of travel and fantasy; the stern and the ornate, the moods of gold or green, of sepia, rose, or black; the picaresque, the arabesque, the scientific - the essays, the poetry and the drama. All this, he felt, he would now re-enter. He could inhabit t.. | melancholy | Mervyn Peake | |
| 26cdd7a | His youth had been so long ago that he could remember nothing of it but he presumed, erroneously, that he had tasted the purple fruit, had broken hearts and hymens, had tosses flowers to ladies on balconies, had drunk champagne out of their shoes and generally been irresistible. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 58c14f6 | The Aunts put their arms about one another so that their faces were cheek to cheek, and from this doublehead they gazed up at Steerpike with a row of four equidistant eyes. There was no reason why there should not have been forty, or four hundred of them. It so happened that only four had been removed from a dead and endless frieze whose inexhaustible and repetitive theme was forever, eyes, eyes, eyes. | humor weird | Mervyn Peake | |
| 29874b9 | Home is a room dappled with firelight: there are pictures and books. And when the rain sighs, and the acorns fall, there are patterns of leaves against the drawn curtains. Home is where I was safe. Home is what I fled from. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 4aaf8de | Indeed he had worn that piece of furniture - or symbol of bone-laziness - into such a shape as made the descent of any other body than his own into that crater of undulating horsehair a hazardous enterprise. | lazy habit | Mervyn Peake | |
| d38ffc7 | Keda,' she said to herself,' Keda, this is tragedy.' But as her words hung emptily in the morning air, she clenched her hands for she could feel no anguish and the bright bird that had filled her breast was still singing... was still singing. | keda rantel | Mervyn Peake | |
| 5bccd06 | Each day we live is a glass room Until we break it with the thrusting Of the spirit and pass through The splintered walls to the green pastures Where the birds and buds are breaking Into fabulous song and hue By the still waters. - | spirit life | Mervyn Peake | |
| b3dedb9 | The love of the painter standing alone and staring, staring at the great coloured surface he is making. Standing with him in the room the rearing canvas stares back with tentative shapes halted in their growth, moving in a new rhythm from floor to ceiling. The twisted tubes, the fresh paint squeezed and smeared across the dry upon his palette. The dust beneath the easel. The paint has edged along the brushes' handles. The white light in a n.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| c6b5196 | The vastest things are those we may not learn. We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to burn With love. How pitiful is our enforced return To those small things we are the masters of. | poetry death love mervyn-peake humans | Mervyn Peake | |
| 253ae0d | As his lord stared at the door another figure appeared, a girl of about fifteen with long, rather wild black hair. She was gauche in movement and in a sense, ugly of face, but with how small a twist might she not suddenly have become beautiful. Her sullen mouth was full and rich - her eyes smouldered. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 31cb789 | The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions, unhappiness and problems in human relationships. | inspirational life-changing | Brian Tracy | |
| afa4b45 | It is impossible to succeed without failing. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 0fd59ab | Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 1138653 | Successful people are simply those with successful habits. --Brian Tracy | Lewis Howes | ||
| 1bff270 | Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 462c13a | If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long. | Brian Tracy | ||
| d3f85e7 | Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place." | Brian Tracy | ||
| 7b26d1c | Whenever you have a problem, take a few minutes to meditate. You'll be amazed at the renewed clarity that you'll bring to the issue. | problem clarity meditate renewed meditation | Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy | |
| 64ea504 | The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. but he trembles when we pray. | John Mason | ||
| ef947ef | The world is a book where those who do not take risks read only one page. | John Mason | ||
| 6edf47a | Faith is like a toothbrush. Everyone should have one and use it daily, but you shouldn't try to use someone else's. | John Mason | ||
| 2b7b075 | Let God dominate your day. | John Mason |