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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 686b817 | I said it was OK, I said I loved her, I said not to worry about me. Her breathing became slower and more labored, and then just past noon, it stopped altogether. I laid my cheek on her chest and held her for a long time, not thinking anything, just being an animal that had lost its mother. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| d410107 | For the next two hours Denise mainly paid attention to her hand, which she'd laid on the sofa cushion within easy reach of Robin's. The hand wasn't comfortable there, it wanted to be retracted, but she didn't want to give up hard-won territory. When the movie ended they watched TV, and then they were silent for an impossibly long time, five minutes or a year, and still Robin didn't take the warm, five-fingered bait. Denise would have welcom.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 609ae54 | L'integrita e un valore neutro. Anche le iene hanno una loro integrita. Sono iene allo stato puro. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 5f20ded | You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction--no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy's disgust. | parenting punishment | Jonathan Franzen | |
| 2451817 | Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them. If we see religion and art as the historically preferred methods of coming to terms with this Ache, then what happens to art when our technological and economic systems and even our commercialized religions become sufficiently sophisticated to make each of us.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| f07cb12 | that the more he rebelled against his parents and the more he made his life a reproach to theirs, the more deeply he rooted himself in the same childish relation to them. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 8486efb | The man who 'forgets' his toothbrush in a woman's house is a man who wants to come back. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| da260f3 | Outside, the middle class was disappearing faster than the icecaps, xenophobes were winning elections or stocking up on assault rifles, warring tribes were butchering each other religiously, but inside, disruptive new technologies were rendering traditional politics obsolete. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 246b01a | It seems not to occur to you that I might have had other very smart patients. The difference between them and me is that I'm a psychologist and they are not. I don't have to be as smart as you to help you. I only have to be smart about one thing. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 7dbafa1 | Only silence was acceptable in its potential to be endless. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| e68a8b9 | I suspect that art has always had a particularly tenuous purchase on the American imagination because ours is a country to which so few terrible things have ever happened. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| d0a0192 | He may not have been exactly what she wanted in a man, but he was unsurpassable in providing the rabid fandom which, at the time, she needed even more than romance. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 3d67044 | As soon as she hit the Send button, she had a spasm of remorse; her interval between action and remorse was diminishing so rapidly that soon she might be all remorse, unable to act at all; which might not be such a bad thing. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 6445b2c | It was clear to everyone that day, and in the months that followed, that Patty's greatest warming influence was on Walter himself. Now, instead of speeding by his neighbors in his angry Prius, he stopped to lower his window and say hello. On weekends, he brought Patty over to the patch of clear ice that the neighborhood kids maintained for hockey and instructed her in skating, which, in a remarkably short time, she became rather good at. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 4120c60 | Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| e03c054 | Wasn't asking for a recipe supposed to be good coin of the feminine realm? | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| b412642 | The father was dry-eyed but the mother kept erupting, like loudly, unprovoked, in a keening foreign wail that was almost like song; it sounded strangely ceremonial and impersonal, like a lament for an idea. Walter went alone to the morgue, without any idea. His love was resting beneath a sheet on a gurney of an awkward height, too high to be knelt by. Her hair was as ever, silky and black and thick, as ever, but there was something wrong wi.. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 50f1620 | He knows how love blinds people to the truth about the one they are in love with. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 8de1501 | A candle is like a small sun, but the sun is like a large candle; examined closely, language turns out to operate through the lateral associations of metaphor, rather than through the vertical identifications of naming. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| bb0b927 | There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her family's satisfaction with itself, the platform from which all else could be ridiculed, the collateral of adult sophistication that bought them the right to behave like children. | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 85918cb | Det var det der holdt mig vagen om natten," sagde Walter. "Den her opsplitning af landet. For det er det samme problem overalt. Det er ligesadan med internettet eller kabel-tv - der er aldrig noget centrum, der er ingen faelles enighed, der er bare en billion forskellige distraherende stojkilder. Vi kan aldrig saette os og fore en vedvarende samtale, det er bare billigt skrammel og en lorteudvikling, det hele. Alt det aegte, alt det autenti.. | freedom frihed oversættelse translation | Jonathan Franzen | |
| ab60ccd | Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden. | freedom frihed translation | Jonathan Franzen | |
| 2831d64 | You see a person with kids," she said, "and you see how happy they are to be a parent, and you're attracted to their happiness. Impossibility is attractive. You know, the safety of dead-ended things." -- | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 17f6a36 | In any] machine, the failure of one part to cooperate properly with the other part disorganizes the whole and renders it inoperative for the purpose intended. --THOMAS EDISON R | Graham Moore | ||
| d94bb30 | Home is an emotional state, a place in the imagination where feelings of security, belonging, placement, family, protection, memory and personal history abide. -Thomas Moore | emotion family feel history home hygge memory protect secure | Louisa Thomsen Brits | |
| 40f2c2c | Every season hath its pleasures; Spring may boast her flowery prime, | fall seasons spring | Thomas Moore | |
| e5fc51f | A gun is dangerous not only because it threatens our lives, but also because it concretizes and fetishizes our desire for power, keeping power both in sight and also removed from its soulful presence in our daily lives. The presence of the gun in our society is a threat, and we are its victims--a sign that our fetish is working against us. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 28af4e1 | Every repast can have soul and can be enchanting; it asks for only a small degree of mindfulness and a habit of doing things with care and imagination. -Thomas Moore | enchanting habit hygge imagination mindfulness soul | Louisa Thomsen Brits | |
| 4b37a34 | The ancient art of alchemy shows a way: Pay attention to your deep and complex interior life, become more sensitive about your relationships, consider your past thoughtfully, and use your imagination at its full power. Work from the ground up toward finding the work that will make your life worthwhile. The | Thomas Moore | ||
| ddaa88e | The word passion means basically "to be affected," and passion is the essential energy of the soul. The poet Rilke describes this passive power in the imagery of the flower's structure, when he calls it a "muscle of infinite reception." We don't often think of the capacity to be affected as strength and as the work of a powerful muscle, and yet for the soul, as for the flower, this is its toughest work and its main role in our lives. Things.. | Thomas Moore | ||
| adfb581 | Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, Live fairy-gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still. It is not while beauty and youth are thine own, And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear, That the fervor and.. | poem | Thomas Moore | |
| e4aca5c | All human symptoms and problems, when they are taken to their depth and realized in a soulful way, find their ultimate solution in a religious sensibility. | Thomas Moore | ||
| a1c66d5 | Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, | Thomas Moore | ||
| b2ccffb | Vertical and horizontal lines represented for Mondrian the two opposing life forces: the positive and the negative, the dynamic and the static, the masculine and the feminine. This | Eric R Kandel | ||
| 3155293 | That is the point of the night sea journey--to be born into yourself. There, you are in the amniotic fluid, in an alchemical substance once again. You are journeying toward your own life. You are preparing for your fate. The promise is exhilarating, but the dangers are extreme. You have to avoid being just one of the crowd and instead take the chance of being born an individual. Jonah | Thomas Moore | ||
| e59d5b4 | Care of the soul begins with observance of how the soul manifests itself and how it operates. We can't care for the soul unless we are familiar with its ways. Observance is a word from ritual and religion. It means to watch out for but also to keep and honor, as in the observance of a holiday. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 4791729 | Soul-making is a journey that takes time, effort, skill, knowledge, intuition, and courage. It is helpful to know that all work with soul is process--alchemy, pilgrimage, and adventure--so that we don't expert instant success or even any kind of finality. All goals and all endings are heuristic, important in their being imagined, but never literally fulfilled. In | Thomas Moore | ||
| 165dde8 | I believe that one day we'll understand that we've lost out on religion because we made it too lofty and distant. I see it as a simple quality of everyday life, and in that simplicity lie its beauty and importance. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 397ead2 | We care for the soul by acknowledging the place of eternal childhood, seeing its disadvantages to be virtuous and its inadequacies to be the conduits of soulful sensitivity. | Thomas Moore | ||
| 989c282 | Your death defines my life. I want to find the love we never had and explicate it in your name. | James Ellroy | ||
| d71d7bd | My central premise is that although the reductionist approaches of scientists and artists are not identical in their aims--scientists use reductionism to solve a complex problem and artists use it to elicit a new perceptual and emotional response in the beholder--they are analogous. For example, | Eric R Kandel | ||
| 505687b | In the process, he came to understand a crucial principle of brain function: our brain takes the incomplete information about the outside world that it receives from our eyes and makes it complete. | Eric R Kandel | ||
| 4afeef4 | One would have thought that not even Joyce could have maltreated a salad to the point where it became inedible, but one would have been wrong. Abustle with wild life, it was also soaked in a vinegary dressing. Barnaby lifted a soggy lettuce leaf. A small insect emerged, valiantly swimming against the tide. | Caroline Graham | ||
| 67e80d7 | Chapter 1 Summary The debate in science is between the mind being what the brain does versus the brain doing the bidding of the mind. The correct view is that the mind is designed to control the body, of which the brain is a part, not the other way around. Our brain does not control us; we control our brain through our thinking and choosing. We can control our reactions to anything. Choices are real. You are free to make choices about how y.. | Caroline Leaf |