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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ab3628e | The gift of patience opens when our body, heart, and mind slow enough to move in unison. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 4de7639 | Whatever our path, whatever the color or grain of our days, whatever riddles we must solve to stay alive, the secret of life somehow always has to do with the awakening and freeing of what has been asleep. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 588c149 | There's no need to seek the truth-just put a stop to your opinions! -SENG-TS'AN | Mark Nepo | ||
| ee04e98 | We are so unused to emotion that we mistake any depth of feeling for sadness, any sense of the unknown for fear, and any sense of peace for boredom. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 5636117 | Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. --HOWARD THURMAN | Mark Nepo | ||
| 94172e8 | The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. --MARCEL PROUST | Mark Nepo | ||
| 02ca7c1 | Being human, we are constantly broken apart by experience. To reconcile our humanness means we are ever learning how to accept our suffering and to restore our Wholeness. | Mark Nepo | ||
| f04904a | Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 4f3e3a5 | So what does it mean to be a spiritual warrior? It is far from being a soldier, but more the sincerity with which a soul faces itself in a daily way. It is this courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the ear.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 47a4b70 | Having an honest friend-one before whom you can dump all your heart's pockets and still feel that you are worth something-is a form of wealth that will buy you nothing but will give you everything. And mysteriously and rightly, to find such a friend, we must be such a friend. | Mark Nepo | ||
| e7ef035 | Where love is deep much can be accomplished. --SHINICHI SUZUKI | Mark Nepo | ||
| 33a9ddb | Healing Ourselves In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. --BUDDHA One of the most difficult things about healing from being hurt by others is how to put wounds to rest when those who have hurt us will not give air to the wound, will not admit to their part in causing the pain. I have struggled with this deeply. Time and again, I find myself confusing the want for jus.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 3b736a0 | Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood? | listening spiritual | Mark Nepo | |
| a553513 | How could God be so cruel as to create a Muslim woman with so much flesh and so little sex appeal? | Azar Nafisi | ||
| aefaf08 | he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to the riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? | Joseph Heller | ||
| f079ef2 | The sense of fear and loss that accompanies the letting go of dreams that will never be is best described by the German word torschlusspanik, defined as "panic at the thought that a door between oneself and life's opportunities has shut." -- | KathleenA. Brehony | ||
| cb9ad32 | The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him. | Joseph Heller | ||
| ed0bf39 | Superman?' Clevinger cried. 'Superman?' 'Supraman,' Yossarian corrected. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 02a0c2a | What does the fish remind you of?" "Other fish." "And what do the other fish remind you of?" "Other fish." Major Sanderson sat back disappointedly. "Do you like fish?" "Not especially." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 4678a45 | The only one who lived with the chaplain in his clearing in the woods was Corporal Whitcomb, his assistant. Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chaplain's job much better than the chaplain was doing it and viewed himself, therefore, as an underprivileged victim of social inequity. | Joseph Heller | ||
| f8cdef8 | How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. | ageing catch-22 growing-old growing-older growing-up | Joseph Heller | |
| 501564a | Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off. His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily. | Joseph Heller | ||
| b063b18 | Tu sei pazzo! | Joseph Heller | ||
| 8585895 | He had poor eyesight and chronic sinus trouble, which made war especially exciting for him, since he was in no danger of going overseas. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 677f134 | Sure there's a catch,' Doc Daneeka replied. 'Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.' There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly m.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| c73c56f | There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday | Joseph Heller | ||
| f070c00 | Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all. And if that wasn't funny, there were lots of things that weren't even funnier. There was nothing funny about living like a bum in a tent in Pianosa between fat mountains behind him and a placid blue sea in front that could gulp down a p.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 828276d | The Texan wanted everybody in the ward to be happy but Yossarian and Dunbar. He was really very sick. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5d7c000 | Sinking invalids blew kisses to him from windows. Aproned shopkeepers cheered ecstatically from the narrow doorways of their shops. Tubas crumped. Here and there a person fell and was trampled to death. | Joseph Heller | ||
| ac79b9b | It was just before dawn during the Great Big Siege of Bologna, when tongueless dead men peopled the night hours like living ghosts and Hungry Joe was half out of his mind with anxiety because he had finished his missions | Joseph Heller | ||
| 616c9c1 | Nincs mod arra, hogy tenyleg mindent tudjunk, ezt is tudta, sot azt is, hogy meg azt se tudhatjuk, valoban nincs-e mod arra, hogy tenyleg mindent tudjunk. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 286072f | That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some goddam cantilevered goldfish in some goddam cantilevered goldfish bowl while the goddam foul black tiers of flak were bursting and booming and billowing all around and above and below him in a climbing, cracking, staggered, banging, phantasmagorical, cosmological wickedness that jarred and tossed and shivered, clattered and pierced, and.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 2b1d346 | you have to be insane before they will let you fly no more missions, but the fact that you want to fly no more missions is proof that you are not insane. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 083845f | Well, maybe it's true," Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. "Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions to make it seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do" Dunbar told him. "why?" Clevinger asked. "What else is there?" | Joseph Heller | ||
| eb537a6 | was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5e568d1 | Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good could come from evil. But he did feel good; he felt positively marvelous. Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from duty could not be sins. The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilara.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| eb06a32 | He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive. The | Joseph Heller | ||
| b3a67a5 | Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. | Joseph Heller | ||
| dc95c65 | It was truly a splendid structure, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his. There | Joseph Heller | ||
| afea3d3 | They might have occurred if either General Dreedle or General Peckem had once evinced an interest in taking part in orgies with him, but neither ever did, and the colonel was certainly not going to waste time and energy making love to beautiful women unless there was something in it for him. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 4dfbc46 | Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian. It really is. It's a terrible thing to treat a decent, loyal Indian like a nigger, kike, wop or spic. | Joseph Heller | ||
| e48ce8d | You make the bribe big enough and they'll find you. Just make sure you do everything right out in the open. Let everyone know exactly what you want and how much you're willing to pay for it. The first time you act guilty or ashamed, you might get into trouble." "I wish you'd come with me," Milo remarked. "I won't feel safe among people who take bribes. They're no better than a bunch of crooks." "You'll be all right," Yossarian assured him w.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 0f089f3 | Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. Colonel | Joseph Heller | ||
| 3bae029 | Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so much madness. And it was urgent that he did, for he knew his life was in peril. | Joseph Heller |