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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 15339f7 | Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star in a full-blown one of her own, he found the sufferers of such crises not only self-indulgent but greedy and demented, and he wished them all weird unnatural deaths with various contraptions easily found in garages. | midlife-crises | Lorrie Moore | |
| 4ec3f7e | I loved to say quasi. I was saying it now a lot, instead of sort of, or kind of, and it had become a tic. "I am quasi ready to go," I would announce. Or, "I'm feeling a bit quasi today." Murph called me Quasimodo. Or Kami-quasi. Or wild and quasi girl." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 485ce39 | Biri sizden ayrildiginda tum cekiciliginizi kaybedersiniz ve karsi tarafin yeni bir baslangic yaparken size dair besledigi tum kuskular boylece kanitlanmis olur. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| d160b72 | They looked like frogs who'd been kissed and kissed roughly, yet stayed frogs. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 934203a | I can't believe I just asked you to hold my hand,' said Ira, but Mike had already taken it. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 522acb3 | One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in isolation, lurched and spazzed, sent them spinning fizzly back into empty, padded corners, disconnected and alone. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| eea2c5b | Her body was a mix of thin and plump, her skin lined and unlined, in that rounding-the-corner-to-fifty way. , he chanted silently, . | Lorrie Moore | ||
| bba5d0a | The thought balloon of my own breath said, How have I found myself here? | Lorrie Moore | ||
| f9df6c0 | I'm going to marry you till you puke. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| fc5c3f4 | Perhaps everyone had their own way of preparing to die. Life got you ready. | life | Lorrie Moore | |
| bc8f5c0 | This is why a woman makes things up: Because when she dies, those lives she never got to are all going down with her. All those possibilities will just site there like a bunch of school kids with their hands raised and uncalled on--each knowing, really knowing, the answer. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 6a1961e | For driving, a January thaw was always preferable to actual ice, but when it was over things froze more treacherously than before. And in its melting and condensing the roadside snow turned to clumps reminiscent of black-spotted cauliflower. Better never to have thawed. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 38a5e58 | She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it. | money | Lorrie Moore | |
| 58af878 | You are not in Disneyland," he said. "The little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them before they kill you, then you have a good chance of getting through your year of service here." | desire disneyland friendly kill little-people mouseketeers service strong | Walter Dean Myers | |
| ec15e7f | I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 71a5a9f | We bought Candy Twirls and Bull's-Eyes and Licorice & Blackcurrant. We weren't going to lower ourselves and score at the supermarket, were we? | Keith Richards | ||
| fa4f245 | There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place. | Keith Richards | ||
| 9c5892f | We are not old men. We are not worried about petty morals. | Keith Richards | ||
| e62715c | We were in Mississippi. We'd been playing this music, and it had all been very respectful, but then we were actually there sniffing it. You want to be a blues player, the next minute you fucking well are and you're stuck right amongst them, and there's Muddy Waters standing next to you. It happens so fast that you really can't register all of the impressions that are coming at you. It comes later on, the flashbacks, because it's all so much.. | Keith Richards | ||
| fd980db | If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. | guitar keith-richards music rolling-stones | Keith Richards | |
| 594960a | Image is like a long shadow. Even when the sun goes down, you can see it. I think some of it is that there is so much pressure to be that person that you become it, maybe, to a certain point you can bear. It's impossible not to end up being a parody of what you thought you were. | Keith Richards | ||
| 2f85474 | goodness is ours to dispense. It's a currency that each of us gets to invent and denominate. David's had pictures of Chopin and Keith Richards on it. Mine had my dog. | Sue Halpern | ||
| 9fee133 | El silencio es el lienzo en blanco, el marco, sobre lo que trabajas; y no tratas de ahogarlo. | silence | Keith Richards | |
| f3c0a6c | feelings are programs; that is, they are learned responses that often have a purpose. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 7b3d4c0 | healing is the result of not just clinical processes but also of overall biological potentialities that often do not materialize without the unseen power of spiritual alignment. Chemistry is within the predictable Newtonian discipline of scientific (linear content) expectation, but health recovery is greatly facilitated by the unseen power of the spiritual dimensions of intentionality of consciousness itself (nonlinear context). The clinica.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 3d72466 | The real source of "stress" is actually internal; it is not external, as people would like to believe." | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 52589e7 | Why do you see the splinter which is in your brother's eye, and do not feel the beam which is in your own eye (Matthew 7:3)?" All the Great Masters point us within." | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 61f9444 | God is immutable and cannot be manipulated into granting favors, or seduced by bargaining or adulation. Worship benefits the worshipper by reinforcing commitment and inspiration. God is still, silent, and unmoving. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| b451d7b | From previous studies, it was learned that everyone is born under optimal conditions for karmic opportunities; therefore, it is wise to judge not, for what appears as misery or catastrophe may be the doorway to liberation for those who have negative karma to undo. Thus, seemingly catastrophic events may be the very essential and necessary elements for the evolution of the soul. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 1a9e2ec | Every life experience, no matter how "tragic," contains a hidden lesson. When we discover and acknowledge the hidden gift that is there, a healing takes place." | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 571f198 | Without love and affection, they lost the will to live. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 0b17d54 | The well-disciplined mind should only speak when requested to perform a task. Untrained, the mind becomes an unruly "onstage" performer and a nuisance. The self needs to learn respect for the Self and the silence of the Presence. By observing the mind, it becomes apparent that the self represents the disruptive, unruly child who constantly seeks attention." | David R. Hawkins | ||
| b09b7e5 | Complete surrender to God unveils the Truth. Nothing is hidden; only the ego is blind. Reality lies just beyond the mind. Out of the fear of becoming nothing, consciousness | David R. Hawkins | ||
| a73506c | With absolute humility, the ego dissolves. It is a collection of arbitrary mental processes that gain force only because of vanity and habit. If one lets go of the vanity of thought, it dissolves. All thought is vanity. All opinions are vanities. The pleasure of vanity is therefore the basis of the ego--unplug it and it collapses. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 81047b3 | Greatness is the courage to overcome obstacles. It is the willingness to move to a higher level of love. It is the acceptance of others' humanness and having compassion for their suffering by putting ourselves in their shoes. Out of the forgiveness of others come self-forgiveness and the relief of guilt. The real payoff we get is when we let go of our negativity and choose to be loving; we are the ones who benefit. We are the ones who gain .. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 02b522a | What the addict is seeking is not to be ashamed of. The whole spiritual world wants to reach that blissful state of consciousness. Change your technique, not your aspiration. The state doesn't have to be sought; it is always within us. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| ed3d3eb | If it weren't for the negative programming that made us believe otherwise, why should we go through any cost of pain and suffering to achieve anything in our life? Isn't that a rather sadistic view of the world and the universe? Other blocks to the achievement of our wants and desires, of course, are unconscious guilt and smallness. Peculiarly, the unconscious will allow us to have only what we think we deserve. The more we hang on to our n.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 611fbfc | healing is the result of not just clinical processes but also of overall biological potentialities that often do not materialize without the unseen power of spiritual alignment. Chemistry is within the predictable Newtonian discipline of scientific (linear content) expectation, but health recovery is greatly facilitated by the unseen power of the spiritual dimensions of intentionality of consciousness itself (nonlinear context). The clinica.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| ac1ef43 | It is not what we have that matters, but how we hold it, how we frame it in our consciousness, and its meaning to us. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 88b82df | Possessiveness and attachment occur as a consequence of pride. Attachment is, therefore, a potential cause for suffering, because attachment brings about fear of loss and, with loss, we go back into apathy, depression, and grief. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 856549e | Totalitarian systems are notably devoid of humor at every level. Laughter, which brings acceptance and freedom, is a threat to their rule through force and intimidation. It is hard to oppress people who have a good sense of humor. Beware the humorless, whether in a person, institution, or belief system; it is always accompanied by an impulse to control and dominate, even if its proclaimed objective is to create prosperity or peace. | humor spirituality totalitarism | David R. Hawkins | |
| 4622777 | Evil is not the opposite of God but simply the denial of God, just as falsity is not the opposite of truth but its refusal. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| ad7fbbb | We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 1943441 | Man thinks he lives by virtue of the forces he can control, but in fact, he is governed by power from unrevealed sources, power over which he has no control. Because power is effortless, it goes unseen and unsuspected. Force is experienced through the senses; power can be recognized only through inner awareness. | David R. Hawkins |