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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4958ce8 | A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| bd2c39f | A business suit, Didier once said to me, is nothing but a military uniform, stripped of its honour. And | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 2e13cba | The word family is derived from the word famulus, meaning a servant, and in its early usage, familia, it literally meant the servants of a household. In its essence, the longing for family, and the ravenousness that the loss of family creates in us, isn't just for belonging: it's for the grace that abides in serving those we love. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8e80fe0 | If you stare into its cold dead eye, the camera always mocks you with the truth. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| bcba73d | It is always a fool's mistake, Didier once said to me, to be alone with someone you shouldn't have loved. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 901c027 | each one of us, we all have to earn our future,' she said slowly. 'I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, if we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is--a way of earning the future. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5cd33af | So it begins, this story, like everything else--with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 459084f | I never told her that--what her affectionate and unconditional acceptance meant to me. So much, too much, of the good that I felt in those years of exile was locked in the prison cell of my heart: those tall walls of fear; that small, barred window of hope; that hard bed of shame. I do speak out now. I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving,.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ab2cc21 | I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us or our endless ability to endure it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 793af80 | Yes. You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because it's so hard to resist. Being listened to--really listened to--is the second-best thing in the world. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 2e53d9d | I couldn't tell him that I felt too weak and beat up to climb a mountain: sometimes, all the guts you have is the guts you pretend, because you love someone too much to lose their respect. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| de46bb5 | It was just that all the hope had been so empty, so meaningless. And if you prove to a man how vain his hope is, how vain his hoping was, you kill the bright, believing part of him that wants to be loved. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b111ccb | If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke. | fate | Gregory David Roberts | |
| aef162b | if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, | Alan Lightman | ||
| 12b6008 | Because, you see, real teaching isn't just about teaching the brain up here," I said, hitting my forehead, "but it's also about inspiring your students to have heart...compassion, guts, understanding, and hope!" | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| 8b23332 | And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan's education began. He didn't want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at learning to read. His earthly body was locked up, but his mind was set free as a young eagle soaring through the heavens. | freedom inspirational reading reading-motivation | Victor Villaseñor | |
| 7f4aef1 | Thus, in this world of brief scenes from the future, few risks are taken. Those who have seen the future do not need to take risks, and those who have not yet seen the future wait for their visions without taking risks. | Alan Lightman | ||
| e605c6c | And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| b6ed55f | And what of the men who made love to the woman who became La Llorona? Did they every cry for their children? It doesn't seem fair to have only her suffer, only her crying and doing penance. Perhaps a man should run with her, and in our legends we would call him "El Mero Chingon," he who screwed up everything. Then maybe the tale of love and passion and the insanity it can bring will be complete. Yes, I think someday I will write that story... | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 1820016 | The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for lasts only a brief lifetime, then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and e.. | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| 2ffdbef | each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 0795dd2 | Time paces forward with exquisite regularity, at precisely the same velocity in every corner of space. Time is an infinite ruler. Time is absolute. | Alan Lightman | ||
| f5f2f1a | A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 3c99c19 | It never occurred to me that she might travel from one man to the next to avoid being abandoned. Or to avoid being worshiped like a goddess, a worship she both relished and despised. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 217a96d | Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 7d35d89 | Life is a vessel of sadness, but it is noble to live life, and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case. | Alan Lightman | ||
| a9ed38a | Arriving home, each man finds a woman and children waiting at the door, introduces himself, helps with the evening meal, reads stories to his children. Likewise, each woman returning from her job meets a husband, children, sofas, lamps, wallpaper, china patterns. Late at night, the wife and husband do not linger at the table to discuss the day's activities, their children's school, the bank account. Instead, they smile at one another, feel .. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 12b6413 | On one thing most physicists agree. If the amount of dark energy in our universe were only a little bit different than what it actually is, then life could never have emerged. A little larger, and the universe would have accelerated so rapidly that matter in the young universe could never have pulled itself together to form stars and hence complex atoms made in stars. And, going into negative values of dark energy, a little smaller and the .. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 5d3c092 | In a world where time is a sense, like sight or like taste, a sequence of episodes may be quick or may be slow, dim or intense, salty or sweet, causal or without cause, orderly or random, depending on the prior history of the viewer. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 1ae526d | There were other, more subtle artistic effects. The slow shift of the light through each day caused shadows to drift, shorten and lengthen, producing constantly changing silhouettes. The summits of mountains, which might be pink in the mornings, turned violet and amaranth in the afternoon. ... Like music, (these phenomena) created a feeling that was not there before | Alan Lightman | ||
| 6da99b1 | Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who | Alan Lightman | ||
| 290c7f8 | One day [Rabbi Spear] talked about his theory of happiness. He proposed that human feelings respond only to contrast and change, not to constancy, just as eyesight responds to contrasts of light and dark and to movement. The rabbi speculated that if emotions are similar to eyesight and other senses, then perhaps emotions were developed by nature as a survival mechanism. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 635896f | Jim Clark was interviewed at an event held at Stanford University. At some point in the interview, the topic turned to social media. Clark's reaction was unexpected given his high-tech background: "I just don't appreciate social networking." As he then clarifies, this distaste is captured by a particular experience he had sitting on a panel with a social media executive: [The executive was] just raving about these people spending twelve hou.. | Cal Newport | ||
| ff78ca9 | Phones have become woven into a fraught sense of obligation in friendship. . . . Being a friend means being "on call"--tethered to your phone, ready to be attentive, online." -- | Cal Newport | ||
| 16594a0 | This strategy is classic digital minimalism. By removing your ability to access social media at any moment, you reduce its ability to become a crutch deployed to distract you from bigger voids in your life. At the same time, you're not necessarily abandoning these services. By allowing yourself access (albeit less convenient) through a web browser, you preserve your ability to use specific features that you identify as important to your lif.. | Cal Newport | ||
| 78a1b53 | This man took my last son. No one could claim my hurt, or my anger. No one could have a greater claim on this one's life." Her voice was tight and fierce. She patted Ray's arm. "There's been enough killing down here. We have to find a way to live without the killing." | Robert Crais | ||
| 3575656 | the birds scratch the seed out of the feeder, then fly down to the deck to eat the seed. They know there's a cat, but still they go down to pick at the seed. When you think about it, people are often like this, too. | Robert Crais | ||
| 9c7d185 | These dogs are not machines, Goddammit. They are alive! They are living, feeling, warm-blooded creatures of God, and they will love you with all their hearts! They will love you when your wives and husbands sneak behind your backs. They will love you when your ungrateful misbegotten children piss on your graves! They will see and witness your greatest shame, and will not judge you! These dogs will be the truest and best partners you can eve.. | Robert Crais | ||
| 9b2ebb2 | 'Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy.' The Blue Fairy said that. In Pinocchio. | Robert Crais | ||
| 416a414 | These dogs are not machines, goddamnit. They are alive! They are living, feeling, warm-blooded creatures of God, and they will love you with all their hearts! They will love you when your wives and husbands sneak behind your backs. They will love you when your ungrateful misbegotten children piss on your graves! They will see and witness your greatest shame, and will not judge you! These dogs will be the truest and best partners you can eve.. | Robert Crais | ||
| eef209c | The best dog training was based on the reward system. You did not punish a dog for doing wrong, you rewarded the dog for doing right. The dog did something you wanted, you reinforced the behavior with a reward--pet'm, tell'm they're a good dog, let'm play with a toy. | Robert Crais | ||
| afc2f52 | Muthuhfuckin' muthuhfucker! I oughta come over there kick your ass myself, worryin'me like this? I got your back homes! I got your back! | Robert Crais | ||
| 93bc8fa | Maggie's long German shepherd nose had more than two hundred twenty-five million scent receptors. This was as many as a beagle, forty-five times more than the man, and was bettered only by a few of her hound cousins. A full eighth of her brain was devoted to her nose, giving her a sense of smell ten thousand times better than the sleeping man's, and more sensitive than any scientific device. If taught the smell of a particular man's urine, .. | Robert Crais | ||
| 4b42a97 | Willow gazed up at him, her silly grin still in place. "You know wha'? You're kinda cute when you crook your eyebrows down like tha'." Rider muttered a curse, lifted her off the floor, and tossed her over his shoulder. "Juan, you and Hicks help Mrs. Brigham to her room. I'll take care of this little hellion." Willow lifted her head from where she dangled over Rider's shoulder. "See yuh later, Mrs. B." Miriam smiled and waved. "i think Mrs. .. | Charlotte McPherren |