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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7ca545d | Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman...whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip... | Betty Smith | ||
| 727b27c | That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have a practice in disappoinment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character. | Betty Smith | ||
| 5c15770 | Was that a bad lady, Papa?" she asked eagerly. No." But she looked bad." There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky." | Betty Smith | ||
| c31f83c | The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. They are his contact with the supplies that keep life going; they hold the beauty that his soul longs for; they hold the unattainable that he can only dream and wish for. | Betty Smith | ||
| 6c8afe5 | He talked about democracy and good citizenship and about a good world where everyone did the best he could for the common good of all. | Betty Smith | ||
| 86f5202 | She liked numbers and sums. She devised a game in which each number was a family member and the "answer" made a family grouping with a story to it. Naught was a babe in arms. He gave no trouble. Whenever he appeared you just "carried" him. The figure 1 was a pretty baby girl just learning to walk, and easy to handle; 2 was a baby boy who could walk and talk a little. He went into family life (into sums, etc.) with very little trouble. And 3.. | Betty Smith | ||
| eebf8f6 | Maybe," thought Francie, "she doesn't love me as much as she loves Neeley. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved." | Betty Smith | ||
| a0a5129 | Francie said nothing more. Katie knew that she was letting them down. But she couldn't help it, she just couldn't help it. Yes, she should go with them to lend the comfort and authority of her presence but she knew she couldn't stand the ordeal. Yet, they had to be vaccinated. Her being with them or somewhere else couldn't take that fact away. So why shouldn't one of the three be spared? Besides, she said to her conscience, it's a hard and .. | Betty Smith | ||
| f271368 | Do you hear that, Francie? You're in college! 'oh gosh, I feel sick. | Betty Smith | ||
| b9f9ef7 | Eyes changed after they looked at new things. | Betty Smith | ||
| 0d06d7f | Francie of course became an outsider shunned by all because of her stench. But she had grown accostumed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and being considered different. She did not suffer to much. | Betty Smith | ||
| efb509f | So she learned ways of conserving bits of seconds. Long before the train ground to a stop at her station, she pushed her way to the door to be one of the first expelled when it slid open. Out of the train, she ran like a deer, circling the crowd to be the first up the stairs leading to the street. Walking to the office, she kept close to the buildings so she could turn corners sharply. She crossed streets kittycorner to save stepping off an.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 46ac6ce | She loved the library and was anxious to worship the lady in charge. But the librarian had other things on her mind. She hated children anyhow. | Betty Smith | ||
| 28acf9a | She was the books she read in the library. | Betty Smith | ||
| 4439259 | And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of people--fairies, elves, dwarfs and such. You must tell of the great ghosts that haunted your father's people and of the evil eye which a hex put on your aunt. You must teach the child of the signs that come to the wo.. | Betty Smith | ||
| e8e7146 | I'm glad I got you! | Betty Smith | ||
| 545caa0 | Stevie: (Not listening) That you can do these two things... and not understand how it... SHATTERS THE GLASS!!?? How it cannot be dealt with-how stop and forgiveness have nothing to do with it? and how I am destroyed? How you are? How I cannot admit it though I know it!? How I cannot deny it because I cannot admit it!? Cannot admit it, because it is outside of denying!? | Edward Albee | ||
| 5e21c61 | I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves; independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, are the teaching emotion. And what is gained is loss. | Edward Albee | ||
| 02a131e | People can't have everything they want. You should know that; it's a rule; people can have some of the things they want, but they can't have everything. | Edward Albee | ||
| 503efb7 | Alright... what do you want me to say? Do you want me to say it's funny, so you can contradict me and say it's sad? Or do you want me to say it's sad so you can turn around and say no, it's funny. You can play that damn little game any way you want to, you know! | Edward Albee | ||
| 318eec8 | Music is a personal response to vibration. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 86c0744 | The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence. | life magpie mystery void | Kate Mosse | |
| 69916cd | What will happen will happen, whether I wish it or no. So, yes, I accept. It does not mean that I like it or wish it were not otherwise. | Kate Mosse | ||
| 39ed557 | To say that the Force works in mysterious ways is to admit one's ignorance, for any mystery can be solved through the application of knowledge and unrelenting effort. | James Luceno | ||
| 8cc4d18 | There is no one truth. | James Luceno | ||
| 28f3507 | I'm too young to die." "Yeah, and I'm too well known." -Droma and Han Solo" | James Luceno | ||
| ad58e90 | If someone is aiming a blaster at your ally, do you raise your ligthsaber to prevent it, or do you do nothing because a Jedi isn't supposed to take aggressive action? I mean, where's the line, Jacen? We're in a war for survival , and defense sometimes means having to eliminate the opposition." -Anakin Solo" -- | James Luceno | ||
| 43a67f7 | A Jedi sufficiently strong in the Force can be trained to produce a facsimile, but not true Sith lightning, which, unabated, has the power not only to incapacitate or kill, but to physically transform the victim. Force lightning requires strength of a sort only a Sith can command because we accept consequence and reject compassion. To do so requires a thirst for power that is not easily satisfied. The Force tries to resist the callings of r.. | James Luceno | ||
| fd88294 | Men invented the devil to scare people into doing what they wanted, under the threat of separation from God if they did not. Condemnation, being hurled into the everlasting fires of hell, was the ultimate scare tactic. Yet now you need be afraid no more. For nothing can, or ever will, separate you from Me. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| a0f2d39 | When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| f642ef4 | We can look outside of ourselves for some larger example out in the sky someplace--maybe even in our imaginations. But in the end, we will imitate each other. In the end, children will imitate their parents, and parents will imitate their parents. And nation will imitate nation. In the end, we will take our cues from each other, until one of us steps out and says, "Not that way. This way." | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 62a3dbb | Yet I have said over and over again that there is no "right" or "wrong" in the universe. A thing is not intrinsically right or wrong. A thing simply is." | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 12858bf | walking in dignity. I don't know how to put that into a better concept, either, but it has to do with the way one carries oneself in one's life, and the way one honors others, and the path others are taking. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 01ec8ad | when you come across a person who appears, in relative terms as observed within your world, to be disadvantaged, the first question you have to ask is: Who am I and who do I choose to be, in relationship to that? In other words, the first question when you encounter another in any circumstance should always be: What do I want here? Did you hear that? Your first question, always, must be: What do I want here?--not: What does the other person.. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 6404b47 | there is rapidly developing a soil shortage on your planet. That is, you are running out of good soil in which to grow your food. This is because soil needs time to reconstitute itself, and your corporate farmers have no time. They want land that is producing, producing, producing. So the age-old practice of alternating growing fields from season to season is being abandoned or shortened. To make up for the loss of time, chemicals are being.. | work-life-balance | Neale Donald Walsch | |
| b49bf66 | With you, it seems to be merely a question of time. The legality of self-destruction--the "rightness" or "wrongness" of it--seems to have much to do with how quickly the deed is done, as well as who is doing it. The faster the death, the more "wrong" it seems to be. The slower the death, the more it slips into "okayness." | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 3730994 | Sometimes you have to do what you don't want to do in order to ensure that you won't have to keep on doing it! This apparent contradiction is part of the Divine | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 66538a2 | Government is the human attempt to mandate goodness and ensure fairness. Yet there is only one place where goodness is born, and that is in the human heart. There is only one place where fairness can be conceptualized, and that is in the human mind. There is only one place where love can be experienced truly, and that is in the human soul. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 4d7535d | This is what is meant by being single-minded. If you choose something, choose it with all your might, with all your heart. Don't be faint-hearted. Keep going! Keep moving toward it. Be determined. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 2defabc | The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically. What is created by us is the degree to which these events touch our life | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 87525ae | If you spend your time trying to figure out what's "best" for you, your choices will be cautious, your decisions will take forever, and your journey will be launched on a sea of expectations. If you are not careful, you will drown in your expectations." | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
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| 50b0c0a | God says you may not have anything you want. Why is this so? Answer #19: Because the mere act of wanting something tells the Universe that you don't have it, and the Universe has no choice but to reflect that back in your reality. You end up getting more "wanting what you want," because God always says "yes" to your Sponsoring Thought." | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 09371fd | The more you are, the more you can become, and the more you can become, the more you can yet be. | Neale Donald Walsch |