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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8a20098 | To the pain means this: if we duel and you win, death for me. If we duel and I win, life for you. But life on my terms. The first thing you lose will be your feet. Below the ankle. You will have stumps available to use within six months. Then your hands, at the wrists. They heal somewhat quicker. Five months is a fair average. Next your nose. No smell of dawn for you. Followed by your tongue. Deeply cut away. Not even a stump left. And then.. | William Goldman | ||
| 8f6bdb7 | Power isn't everything ...its the only thing. | Mario Puzo | ||
| e300553 | How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top. | process struggle | Yvon Chouinard | |
| 1f623b8 | I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books. | Christina Dodd | ||
| c92bdfe | People don't like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them. | Harper Lee | ||
| e3c67f9 | In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. | David Levithan | ||
| 6958eed | startling! such determination in the dull and uninspired and the copyists. they never lose the fierce gratitude for their uneventfulness, nor do they forget to laugh at the wit of slugs; as a study in diluted senses they'd make any pharaoh cough up his beans; in music they prefer the monotony of dripping faucets; in love and sex they prefer each other and therefore compound the problem; the energy with which they propel their uselessness (.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 7fc9b68 | I guess I'm too used to sitting in a small room and making words do a few things. I see enough of humanity at the racetracks, the supermarkets, gas stations, freeways, cafes, etc. This can't be helped. But I feel like kicking myself in the ass when I go to gatherings, even if the drinks are free. It never works for me. I've got enough clay to play with. People empty me. I have to get away to refill. I'm what's best for me, sitting he.. | society | Charles Bukowski | |
| 7bd7676 | Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 9316c67 | I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6285f47 | Holy shit. Who the fuck complains about going to Harry Potter World? Or Butter Beer? Or wands? | Angie Thomas | ||
| 489b132 | To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. | William Blake | ||
| 38064a6 | I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin | Bill Watterson | ||
| 0e75f4f | As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent. | David Mitchell | ||
| 738c04b | I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality. | morning work | John Kennedy Toole | |
| eda9ca8 | Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. | strength violence | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 47d5668 | This was hell and I was its fury. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cd5d40b | And how did your day go?" I asked Ascanio. He turned to me, a dreamy look on his pretty face. "We killed things. There was blood. Fountains of blood. And then we had barbecue." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4cb9446 | What a fine persecution--to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 1bab43c | how does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant. Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it's the deafening howl of the temporal winds.' said Mervall. Descant nodded.'You could be right, brother. And don't think I don't know sarcasm when I hear it. | descant fowl mervall paradox time | Eoin Colfer | |
| e5f8c91 | everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4bf352f | I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky" | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 5d33465 | What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 94b9d54 | Make my happiness--I will make yours. | marriage | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 91c4915 | Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 6a01b68 | According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all. | life success | Jon Krakauer | |
| 285767d | I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have." | humor prince-kheldar silk | David Eddings | |
| 0b3bbb6 | It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement. | snowman snowmen | Markus Zusak | |
| 41958fe | We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me. | Markus Zusak | ||
| f737c21 | Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom. | life meaning misery | Voltaire | |
| 1cc2aa3 | Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and lay in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 89c0dec | He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer. But this figure had four legs, and no head. Where the head should have been, there was only a wild foliage of ferns and flowers. There was a small, smiling face drawn over the heart. To find the balance you want," Ketut spoke through his translator, "this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounde.. | faith | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 0d69dac | I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn't anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why I'm not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me b.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f300176 | I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4d27d68 | Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ee6cd26 | You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 8ab2824 | Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. "A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. " Sounds like a wrestling match, I say. "A wrestling match." He laughs. "Yes, you could .. | mitch-albom tuesdays-with-morrie | Mitch Albom | |
| b1edd16 | Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you. | giving receiving | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 78f1dc2 | The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 0c52de0 | Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this lif.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 62dd6bb | there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths. | Mark Nepo | ||
| b6669a7 | The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen. | wisdom | Ray Bradbury | |
| 73a6fb6 | Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that's grass! A pink blur! That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 8feca8c | and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love. | Raymond Carver |