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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e5963d4 | Now have ado with a man! | Ellis Peters | ||
| 921da67 | My monk had to be a man of wide worldly experience and an inexhaustible fund of resigned tolerance for the human condition. His crusading and seafaring past, with all its enthusiasms and disillusionments, was referred to from the beginning. Only later did readers begin to wonder and ask about his former roving life, and how and why he became a monk. For reasons of continuity I did not wish to go back in time and write a book about his crusa.. | Ellis Peters | ||
| a8fc489 | Anger is the only negative emotion that people all over the world usually want to keep. | Albert Ellis | ||
| 4d44164 | To help people achieve the three basic REBT philosophies of unconditional self-acceptance, unconditional other-acceptance, and unconditional life-acceptance, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral methods, which are described in this monograph, are used. | Albert Ellis | ||
| 1f69eba | you have discovered some of your unscientific beliefs with which you are creating emotional problems and making yourself act against your own interests, use the scientific method to challenge and dispute them. Ask yourself: Is this belief realistic? Is it opposed to the facts of life? Is this belief logical? Is it contradictory to itself or to my other beliefs? Can I prove this belief? Can I falsify it? Does this belief prove that the unive.. | Albert Ellis | ||
| 4203c7f | The concept of deservingness for one's "sins" implies that certain acts are unquestionably under all conditions "sinful." And this is impossible to prove." | Albert Ellis | ||
| 7a33ce4 | Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them | Albert Ellis | ||
| 1d66f0f | Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or it is arrogance. Life merely is what it is, neither more nor less. To deem it less because it is not more is to heed the counsels of the Despiser. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 566b7a8 | On the whole, she reflected with a loopy clarity while pain clanged back and forth in her head and the guard held her upright, she liked being rescued. It was better than not being rescued. Definitely. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| ac531aa | His gaze turned cold as he faced her. 'Sure, she's attractive. A stone wall would be attractive if it looked like that. It's her attitude I don't like. There's more to love than just getting your itches scratched. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 3daf697 | Another blast from Rivenrock shivered the air. It snatched Mhoram's head up, and he faced Covenant with tears streaming down his cheeks. "It is as I have said," he breathed achingly. "Madness is not the only danger in dreams." " | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 3744d05 | What good are friends who treat you just like your enemies do? | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 83bf93d | But there's something about sitting at someone else's desk that makes you feel like looking in the drawers. I resisted the impulse briefly. Then I decided what the hell. I was a private investigator. Poking my nose in where it didn't belong came with the territory. | pi the-man-who | Stephen R. Donaldson | |
| 29906ee | But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train him and counsel him. They would put him back into life as if his illness were all that mattered, as if wisdom were only skin deep, as if grief and remorse and horror were nothing but illusions, tricks done with mirrors, irrelevant to chrome and porcelain and clean, white, stiff hospital sheets and fluorescent lights. | illness sickness | Stephen R. Donaldson | |
| de5fa67 | Attempts must be made, even when there can be no hope. The alternative is despair. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| cc682d2 | Covenant did not reply at once. He trembled also, and hand to clench himself before he could say without a tremor, "Why? Why do you trust me?" The Hirebrand's eyes gleamed as if he were on the verge of tears, but he was smiling as he said, "You are a man who knows the value of beauty." " | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 0b0638e | Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmarchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms' Fairy Tales (German: Grimms Marchen). | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 85ed06c | The essential unity of the formal and material principles of the Reformation lies in the fact that to affirm that Christianity was, formally and materially, solus Christus was perceived by the Reformers ultimately to depend upon the concurrent affirmation that Christ and his benefits could be known sola scriptura. | jesus-christ protestantism reformation sola-scriptura | Alister E. McGrath | |
| ca3977e | For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism. | dogmatism faith liberalism rationalism reason rebellion revolt | Alister E. McGrath | |
| b16f4c9 | From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the 'sacred' and 'secular' orders. While this position can easily be interpreted as a claim for the desacralization of the sacred, it can equally well be understood as a claim for the sacralization of the secular. As early as 1520, Luther had laid the fundamental conceptual foundations for created sacred space within the secular. His doctrine of the 'priesthoo.. | christianity martin-luther priesthood-of-all-believers protestantism sacred secular vocation work | Alister E. McGrath | |
| 58b4b16 | Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents. | heresy spiritual-leadership | Alister E. McGrath | |
| 5d0fd34 | Lewis rightly points out that this desire to be part of the "Inner Ring" is not really about friendship at all. It is about our own insecurity and yearning to matter. It is about using "friends" as tools to gain what we want. We value someone, not because of who they are, but because of what they can do for us. We want them to boost our self-esteem and self-importance and get us privileged access to things we might otherwise not be able to .. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 04872b5 | We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them. | Alister E. McGrath | ||
| 3f231b9 | The longing provoked by the brochure was an example , at once touching and pathetic, of how projects (and even whole lives) might be influenced by the simplest and most unexamined images of happiness; of how a lengthy and ruinously expensive journey might be set in motion by nothing more than the sigh of a photograph of a palm tree gently inclining in a tropical breeze. I resolved to travel to the island of Barbados. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 2ab0b40 | If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us. | life madness sanity tragedy | Alain de Botton | |
| 39f7a93 | I was falling in love with myself. Not that beauty, or life itself, means much if you're in a room on your own. Heaven is other people. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 2794ad3 | As we shook hands I wondered idly what her urine looked like. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| 446fc24 | Liubliu syrost' takikh dnei, syrost', sumrak i gustye serye tuchi, potomu chto lish' v takuiu pogodu chuvstvuiu sebia v ladu s mirom. | Patrick McGrath | ||
| d63d6d9 | Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families. | isolation loneliness | Patrick McGrath | |
| 93d3ac8 | I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me. To want to die in the forest and be eaten by wolves: another marker of incipient madness. | madness snow suicide trauma wolves | Patrick McGrath | |
| 418b16f | We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem. | other-people reality trauma | Patrick McGrath | |
| dc741fa | It's frustration which makes creativity possible. | frustration | Hanif Kureishi | |
| ea0a113 | How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture? | artists | Hanif Kureishi | |
| b588e09 | Mamoon went on, "The news I bring is to say that, man being the only animal who hates himself, the likely fate of the world is total self-destruction." He raised his glass. "All the best then, my friends. Here's to a happy apocalypse." "Happy apocalypse," murmured the other guests, obediently." | happy | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 7cdd4a6 | What was marriage but sex plus property. | property sex | Hanif Kureishi | |
| b1ea34f | If there's no sacrifice, there's no love. | sacrifice | Hanif Kureishi | |
| 722ae61 | But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity? | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| f234eea | He had some impression that happiness was beyond him and everything was coming down, and that life could not be grasped but only lived. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 25ddd6d | That's where the public like their artists--exposed, trousers down, arse up, doing a long stretch among serial killers, and shitting in front of strangers. That'll teach 'em to think their talent makes them better than mediocre no-brain tax-paying wage slaves like us. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| b97a0c7 | Women are attracted to artists, of course, as they are to doctors and prisoners on death row. The powerful and the vulnerable. If you want to continue to get laid, particularly as you get older, that's where to head, boy. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| b49db25 | In chili's hand were his car keys, Ray-bans and Marlboros, without which he wouldn't leave his bathroom. Chili drank only black coffee and neat Jack Daniel's; his suits were Boss, his underwear Calvin Klein, his actor Pacino. His barber shook his hand, his accountant took him to dinner, his drug dealer would come to him at all hours and accept his checks. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| c7e105d | A man who hasn't left behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| a90aab9 | It is only the insane who achieve anything significant. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
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