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| 16ce439 | The Panza is here," said Sancho, before anyone could reply, "and Don Quixotissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duenissima, you may say what you willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any servissimus." | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 819e5f9 | We know already ample experience that it does not require much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred round about us that scarcely know how to read. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| c4015fb | The poor gentleman has no way of showing that he is a gentleman but by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered, and kindly, not haughty, arrogant, or censorious, but above all by being charitable; for by two maravedis given with a cheerful heart to the poor, he will show himself as generous as he who distributes alms with bell-ringing, and no one that perceives him to be endowed with the virtues I have named, even th.. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 7eda60a | So that she began to see herself more clearly, as a thin film of dust was wiped from a sheet of glass. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| d086154 | What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered, Augustine said. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| b7c8ffb | another | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| d4d8ce0 | What she'd done for him, because he'd asked. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 3ca8608 | They tolerate my mistakes. They correct me, they encourage me, they provide the words I lack. They speak clearly, patiently. Just like parents with their children. The | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| efe73c6 | cake of soap | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| baa455c | The island children did not look at the Aldens. In fact, they looked the other way. | Gertrude Chandler Warner | ||
| 8c208f0 | Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so. | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 3e03b2f | Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots. | death find franny-billingsley life meaning | Franny Billingsley | |
| 955cf27 | Skipping meals is terrifically convenient: It gives one lots of time to brood and hate oneself. | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 40f4d9f | I've been thinking," said the Eldric image. "Ooh, thinking!" I said. "Shall I tell your father?" "Very funny," said Eldric, but he was laughing." | Franny Billingsley | ||
| a43db86 | That girl was gone; wolfgirl had returned. Wolfgirl, who was leaf dance and moon claw and tooth gleam. When Jupiter sizzled the air with lightning bolts, she caught them on the fly. "Nice throw, Jupiter!" "Nice catch, wolfgirl!" Her mouth was a cavern of stars." | Franny Billingsley | ||
| cd273df | Excellent fistibus," said Eldric, but he wasn't done with my hand. He inspected my left palm, the pucker of scars. "There's no fortune to be read in that palm," I said, but of course he wanted to know about it; of course he'd been dying to ask since we first met. "Do you want the version of the story in which I'm a hero, or do you want the true version?" | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 2a548c0 | And then it occurred to him to wonder whether you actually knew what a seduction involves. The details, I mean. I spread my wicked left hand over my face, but surely slices of crimson tide showed between my fingers. "You're right," I said. "That you're sorry?" "That I'm sorry." "What shall I tell your father?" said Eldric. "Don't tell him anything!" "You teased it out of me," said Eldric."You ought to answer. It has your fatehr worried, ac.. | Franny Billingsley | ||
| a50e706 | I knew then the taste of true fear. It tastes of dark places deep in your stomach and holds you by the neck. | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 95d2d7b | My writer friends and I talk about the kinds of writers we are and some of us are plungers and some of us are plotters. I happen to be a plunger. I have an idea; usually I start out with the idea for the complication. For example, in | Franny Billingsley | ||
| 1410c6f | If it is true that the dual command of love is the common ground of the two faiths, the consequences are momentous. We no longer have to say, "The deeper your faith, the more you will be at odds with others!" To the contrary, we must say, "The deeper your faith, the more you will live in harmony with others!" A deep faith no longer leads to clashes; it fosters peaceful coexistence." -- | Miroslav Volf | ||
| 0caa6bf | God doesn't give in order to acquire. God loves without self-seeking; that's at the heart of who God is. God gives for the benefit of others. | Miroslav Volf | ||
| e54a690 | Through my memory of the Passion, God can "purify" my memory of wrongs suffered because my identity stems neither from the wrongdoing done to me, which would require the perpetual accusation of my wrongdoer, nor from my own (false) innocence, which would lead me to (illegitimate) self-justification." | Miroslav Volf | ||
| fe39080 | Strong is right?" "Well, yes, I suppose you could say that." "You say a woman cannot be bought. I say she can. I am strong. I am right." -- | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 0891a9e | Afterward, she hooked a limp arm around his neck, buried her face against his shoulder, and whispered, "Don't ever get hypothermia with anyone but me." | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 3a32ad7 | How can we ever know the difference we make to the soul of the earth? Where the infinite stillness of the earth meets the passion of the human eye, invisible depths strain towards the mirror of the name. In the word, the earth breaks silence. | John O'Donohue | ||
| b3ec25b | At a deeper level, each person is the custodian of a completely private, individual world. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 0f8aa95 | This earth is the only constant in our lives. It has been here for millions of years before us. It was his gift to unearth its riches; that this "human-come-lately" is but the latest link in the chain of evolution. We must become aware of our present stage of "becoming" and to do this we need to look back at our history." | John O'Donohue | ||
| 05d3d63 | The false burdens fall away. We come into rhythm with ourselves. Our clay shape gradually learns to walk beautifully on this magnificent earth. A | John O'Donohue | ||
| 476637f | To young mind, work seemed to be the price that was gladly paid for the privilege of living so closely with the earth. Work was a real conversation with the landscape. It was not an abuse or raiding of the landscape. It was amazing to learn how to work in this context. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 09d6ffb | The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 9b49d9c | We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become important enough to control our lives. Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporary sojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowly in the infinite night of the cosmos. | earth existentialism impermanence mindfulness nature | John O'Donohue | |
| 76e385d | THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH IS THE FIRST BEAUTY. MILLIONS OF years before us the earth lived in wild elegance. Landscape is the first-born of creation. Sculpted with huge patience over millennia, landscape has enormous diversity of shape, presence and memory. | John O'Donohue | ||
| a2430d8 | A horizon is something towards which we move, but it's also something that moves along with us - Hans Georg Gadamer (Truth and Method) | John O'Donohue | ||
| fb3c1d3 | Only the blindness of habit convinces us that we continue to live in the same place, that we see the same landscape. In truth, no place ever remains the same because light has no mind for repetition; it adores difference. Through its illuminations, it strives to suggest the silent depths that hide in the dark. Light | John O'Donohue | ||
| 71e1cb2 | The most exuberant expression of the body is in dance. Dance theater is wonderful. The dance becomes fluent sculpture. The body shapes the emptiness poignantly and majestically. The | John O'Donohue | ||
| 840431d | If you could trust your soul, you would receive every blessing you require. Life itself is the great sacrament through which we are wounded and healed. If we live everything, life will be faithful to us. O | John O'Donohue | ||
| ec68da6 | Time unfolds in light. In the morning, light clears all the outside darkness and the shape of each thing emerges in the brightened emptiness. Light identifies itself completely with the voyage of a day; its transparency puts the day out in the open. There is nowhere for a day to hide; it is exposed every minute to the revelations of light. Perhaps this is why twilight appears gracious; when light abandons the day, it does not believe that i.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| d88b228 | The wonder of an object is that it is not a thought. A thing is first and foremost itself. An inconsequential pebble picked up on the side of the road has preceded us by anything up to four hundred million years, and its face will be brightened still further by rain that will fall here thousands of years after we have vanished. We might change things in the world, yet the most minimal, seemingly insignificant object outlasts us. | John O'Donohue | ||
| c0f6b3e | To look at something that can gaze back at you, or that has a reserve and depth, can heal your eyes and deepen your sense of vision. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 84cc2a6 | Human presence is a creative and turbulent sacrament, a visible sign of invisible grace. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 92d7e58 | FOR THE TIME OF NECESSARY DECISION The mind of time is hard to read. We can never predict what it will bring, Nor even from all that is already gone Can we say what form it finally takes; For time gathers its moments secretly. Often we only know it's time to change When a force has built inside the heart That leaves us uneasy as we are. Perhaps the work we do has lost its soul Or the love where we once belonged Calls nothing alive in us any.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| e0c2ab8 | You travel certainly, in every sense of the word. But you take with you everything that you have been, just as the landscape stores up its own past. Because you were once at home somewhere, you are never an alien anywhere. | celtic-spirituality home hospitality longing nature | John O'Donohue | |
| 8aba898 | I barely heard her muffled comment of "Yay," but the sarcastic jazz hands were hard to miss." -- | jazz-hands noah | Katie McGarry | |
| 6cf984e | Lincoln's so efficient, especially for a guy who "bends rules"." | katie-mcgarry lila-mccormick lincoln-turner | Katie McGarry |