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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f754658 | Almost everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, scared, and yet designed for joy. Even (or especially) people who seem to have it more or less together are more like the rest of us than you would believe. I try not to compare my insides to their outsides, because this makes me much worse than I already am, | Anne Lamott | ||
| d8d4023 | The ancient Chinese had a practice of embellishing the cracked parts of valued possessions with gold leaf, which says: We dishonor it if we pretend that it hadn't gotten broken. It says: We value this enough to repair it. So it is not denial or a cover-up. It is the opposite, an adornment of the break with gold leaf, which draws the cracks into greater prominence. The gold leaf becomes part of its beauty. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f2d119e | As Anne Lamott suggests, only three prayers are necessary. Mine are "Please!" "Thank you!" and "WTF???" That's all the spirituality you'll need for a while." | Glennon Doyle Melton | ||
| b4f2714 | The lesson here is that there is no fix. There is, however, forgiveness. To forgive yourselves and others constantly is necessary. Not only is everyone screwed up, but everyone screws up. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 423e813 | My lifelong and core belief, right after the conviction that I was defective, mildly annoying, and better than everyone else was that my help was helpful. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 6f8c4b5 | To paraphrase Paul Tillich, the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 782e72f | Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird. | bird-by-bird for-anyone getting-overwhelmed just-take-it-bird-by-bird motivational-quotes one-step-at-a-time quote quote-for-writers quotes quotes-for-all-writers take-a-deep-breath | Anne Lamott | |
| ccabb6f | If what God says is the truest thing about us, then it makes sense to follow him and accept our condition as the starting point. Thomas Merton said, 'The reason we never enter into the deepest reality of our relationship with God is that we so seldom acknowledge our utter nothingness before him.' If we confess the truth about ourselves, there's every reason to fear God will say, 'Yeah, that's right; and thing...' and we're fairly sure th.. | character-of-god julian-of-norwich thomas-merton true-self unconditional-love | Brennan Manning | |
| 7c12477 | When we are stuck in our convictions and personas, we enter into the disease of having good ideas and being right. | Anne Lamott | ||
| a7de686 | Jesus was a rabbi, schooled by rabbis, who thought like rabbis. Rabbis, upon being asked a question by a disciple, usually answer with a paradoxical inquiry or a story. This can be annoying and time-consuming for those of us looking for neat, simple answers. But truth is too wild and complex to be contained in one answer, so Jesus often responded with a question or a parable. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8b80180 | Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest prize of all. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3100e62 | The seventh and eighth grade were for me, and for every single good and interesting person I have ever known, what the writers of the bible meant when they used the words and ...It was all over for any small feeling that one was essentially all right. One wasn't...It was springtime, for Hitler, in Germany. | side-note | David Sheff | |
| ac5af24 | At the same time, the truth is that we are beloved, even in our current condition, by someone; we have loved and been loved. We have also known the abyss of love lost to death or rejection, and that it somehow leads to new life. We have been redeemed and saved by love, even as a few times we have been nearly destroyed, and worse, seen our children nearly destroyed. We are who we love, we are one, and we are autonomous. | Anne Lamott | ||
| b8646b7 | Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy. | Anne Lamott | ||
| eb70b65 | We have to make ourselves available to one another, or we can't experience goodness. It's not so much us seeking God, tracking Her down with a butterfly net; it's agreeing to be found. The Old Girl reaches out to everyone and wants to include us in this beautiful, weird, sometimes anguished life. All people: go figure. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 804707e | The Benny of the air was a fraud, a myth, a creation. It should have surprised no one to learn--after years of toupee jokes that played so well into the vanity theme--that Benny never wore one. He overtipped in restaurants, gave away his time in countless benefit performances, and was lavish in his praise of almost everyone else. "Where would I be today without my writers, without Rochester, Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, and Do.. | John Dunning | ||
| 44a1bf8 | Throughout his life, he was the opposite of all show business cliches. His marriage endured: by all accounts, he dearly loved his wife. Words most often used by those who knew him were "decent," "genial," "gentle," and "generous." He was a constant target of panhandlers and always had a roll of money in his pockets for handouts. He was not, apparently, a chummy man. His few real intimates, old friends like Doc Rockwell and Uncle Jim Harkins.. | John Dunning | ||
| cfdc52c | Without a word, Carolyn held him...for a long, long time. Then, presently, she stood up, took hold of his hand and led him back to her bed, where she proceeded to put him back together again, piece by piece. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 86cdf24 | It's not smart to hold yourself away from the shocks of life, the good ones or the bad. They're all part of the mix, and paradoxically, shying away from them only makes things harder. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 02b815d | That was then. This is now. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 44c51a6 | We are, all of us, our own phoenixes, if we choose to be. Out of the ashes, we can be reborn. | Christie Golden | ||
| f1441fc | The ever-reliable Bill Thompson filled the gap with a new character, Wallace Wimple. Wallace gave new meaning to the word "wimp," for this was the nickname pinned on him by Fibber McGee. Wimple was terrified of his "big old wife," the ferocious, often-discussed but never-present "Sweetie Face." Also in 1941 came Gale Gordon as Mayor LaTrivia, who would arrive at the McGee house, start an argument, and become so tongue-tied that he'd blow hi.. | John Dunning | ||
| 309867f | There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the Force. | Christie Golden | ||
| 4968151 | There is no shame in fear, Orgrim and Durotan. Only in letting fear prevent you from doing the right thing. | Christie Golden | ||
| 1c6e7ef | Sinatra's final radio days were filled with minor quarter-hours and one full-length series in which he was relegated to the role of a disc jockey. By 1950 people were writing his professional obituary. His public image had taken a beating, his personal life a succession of wives, scrapes, and alleged friendships with gangsters. It would take a 1953 film, From Here to Eternity, and a subsequent acting career to save him. | John Dunning | ||
| 31199b2 | How have you managed to survive for so long, Saurfang? Not fallen victim to your own memories?" Saurfang smiled. "I don't eat pork." | Christie Golden | ||
| 67e887b | Orson Welles answered almost everything thrown at him, prompting Fadiman to comment dryly, "This is your last appearance on this program, Mr. Welles." | John Dunning | ||
| 6a5a685 | Blanc went on to speaking parts, playing a wide variety of sardonic and hysterical characters. He played caustic delivery men and punchdrunk fight trainers. As Benny's beleaguered French violin teacher, he suffered through Benny's scrapings and then had to plead for his money. Inevitably, Benny had no small change--he was a dime off, and this called for a trip to his vault. At last, liberated, Professor LeBlanc would scream, "I'm free! I'm .. | John Dunning | ||
| ecb0a84 | Benny's most famous gag, when a robber demanded, "Your money or your life!" and the hilarity kept building while Benny thought it over." | John Dunning | ||
| e829632 | His first play, Burial Services, concerned the burial of a paralyzed girl who was still alive. It caused such a furor (more than 50,000 letters were written to NBC) that Oboler would never again write a story with such a personal theme that could adversely affect a vast audience." Oboler remembered it this way: "I had taken a believable situation and underwritten it so completely that each listener filled the silences with the terrors of hi.. | John Dunning | ||
| 604698e | And you will forgive me too, one day, Asajj Ventress." He hesitated, and took a breath. "That's what you do for...for the one you love." | Christie Golden | ||
| daa7c64 | Life is not about reward and punishment," said Xuen. "It is about understanding, accepting who oneself is right now, in order to know what to change, and how." | Christie Golden | ||
| 21007c2 | The paths of Fate are many and varied,and no sane being should ever venture down the deceptively pleasant one of "if only".What happened,happened;" | Christie Golden | ||
| 808318a | me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life--it's not worth living. | Christie Golden | ||
| 8260b34 | And now, it's too late, and I will never stop grieving that. But I'm on the path, Asajj. You bought my chance with blood, and I won't waste it, I swear I won't. Every day, every minute of my life, I'll live it. For me, and for you. I'll fight, because you can't, and I'll laugh, and I'll do everything I possibly can with everything I have in me to make things better, because this galaxy has seen too much of darkness. | Christie Golden | ||
| 9bf957b | What is he like?" asked Khadgar, his voice almost pleading. "Like everyone else, I suppose." said Moroes. "Has his druthers. Has his moods. Good days and bad. Like everybody else." "puts his pants on one leg at a time," said Khadgar, sighing. "No. He levitates into them," said Moroes." | Christie Golden | ||
| be9766c | He welcomed challenges; they kept him sharp, showed that he was approachable, and oftentimes made him explore avenues previously unthought-of. | Christie Golden | ||
| 52278b5 | This was how one should be welcomed home. With the happy cries of children and family, with the blessings of the natural world. | Christie Golden | ||
| 179cfd8 | I am not your kind," Vos said, his voice thick. "I do not feed off vengeance." Truth was quiet. It did not need to shout or to demand. It simply existed. "I am a Jedi." | Christie Golden | ||
| 7f4dc8d | RUTH: If you take the glass...I'll take you. | power woman | Harold Pinter | |
| 106ba32 | JERRY: I was best man at your wedding. I saw you in white. I watched you glide by in white. EMMA: I wasn't in white. JERRY: You know what should have happened? EMMA: What? JERRY: I should have had you, in your white, before the wedding. I should have blackened you, in your white wedding dress, blackened you in your bridal dress, before ushering you into your wedding, as your best man. | Harold Pinter | ||
| 7d0c53f | EMMA It was never intended to be the same kind of home. Was it? Pause. You didn't ever see it as a home, in any sense, did you? JERRY No, I saw it as a flat . . . you know. EMMA For fucking. JERRY No, for loving. EMMA Well, there's not much of that left, is there? Silence. JERRY I don't think we don't love each other. Pause. EMMA | Harold Pinter | ||
| 6f98fb9 | So the first time I ever came into contact with O'Toole was at one of these very gatherings. I remember it well because I'd just punched Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs. Oh yes, I'm afraid so. No long dramatic pauses this time, Harold; he got one right on the side of the jaw. Wham! | Brian Blessed | ||
| e58a87f | That's the thing about later. You don't know what's coming up. You don't know how all the loose ends are going to gather together. Something for sure is going to happen but you don't know what it is. | Sam Shepard |