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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1f85781 | The speech she made was done in the back, alone, like little shoes cobbled by an elf: spider is to web as weaver is to blank. That one was hers. She was proud of that. Also, blank is to heartache as forest is to bench. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 6f98760 | He started not to mind it, to feel he was suited in some ways to solitude, to the near weightlessness of no one but himself holding things down. He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements. He didn't want to actually sit across from someone in a restaurant, look at their face, and eat food. He wanted to turn away, not deal wi.. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 952acf3 | I was already becoming a woman who sized up another one fast--I was becoming typical. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 681065a | There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 28a02b4 | in an attempt at extroversion, she had worn a tunic with large slices of watermelon depicted on the front. What had she been thinking of? | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 570ac33 | Through college she had been a feminist--basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 78ce008 | I would be a genius now," Quilty has said three times already, "if only I'd memorized Shakespeare instead of Lulu." "If only," says Mack. Mack himself would be a genius now if only he had been born a completely different person. But what could you do? He'd read in a magazine once that geniuses were born only to women over thirty; his own mother had been twenty-nine. Damn! So fucking close!" | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 052995d | Quilty grimaces. "I don't like what comes after 'dicker.' " "What is that?" Quilty sighs. "Dickest. I mean, really: it's not a contest!" | Lorrie Moore | ||
| a643d23 | It broke her heart that they had come to this: if one knew the future, all the unexpected glimpses of the beloved, one might have trouble finding the courage to go on. This was probably the reason nine-tenths of the human brain had been rendered useless: to make you stupidly intrepid. One was working with only the animal brain, the Pringle brain. The wizard-god brain, the one that could see the future and move objects without touching them,.. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 4b99475 | But I keep thinking love should be like a tree. You look at trees and they've got bumps and scars from tumors, infestations, what have you, but they're still growing. Despite the bumps and bruises, they're--straight. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 864f335 | He stepped back, away from her. He shook his head in disbelief. "You know, I shouldn't try to go out with career women. You're all stricken. A guy can really tell what life has done to you. I do better with women who have part-time jobs." "Oh, yes?" said Zoe. She had once read an article entitled "Professional Women and the Demographics of Grief." Or no, it was a poem: If there were a lake, the moonlight would dance across it in conniption.. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 87e9d7c | One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. | loneliness | Lorrie Moore | |
| 9c9cfc4 | You are too gifted a person to be living in a state that borders on North Dakota. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 8ca99fc | His fish smells fishier than the others- he is sure of it. Perhaps he has been poisoned. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| d245333 | There were about thirty-five people, all of them middle-aged, with the academic's strange mixed expression of merriment and weariness. "A cross between flirtation and a fender bender," Martin had described it once." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| b543248 | There was sex where you were looked in the eye and beautiful things were said to you, and then there was what Ira used to think of as yoo-hoo sex: where the other person seemed spirited away, not quite there, their pleasure mysterious and crazy and only accidentally involving you. "Yoo-hoo?" was what his grandmother always called before entering a house where she knew someone but not well enough to know whether they were actually home." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 15b66a2 | By about the sixth week the smallness of the class, and whatever makeshift intimacy had sprung up there, became suddenly oppressive to me... suddenly I wanted the anonymity of a large class, where class members did not really have faces and names and problems. In six weeks with Susan, Lodeme, Betty, Valerie, Ellen, Frances, Pat, Marie, Bridget, and Barney, (...) brought to the stubborn limits of our knowability, we were now left with the ja.. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| f18725c | There is no requirement for those affected by an idea to be aware of any of this, of course. When the writer and media critic Philip Sandifer writes that "David Whitaker, at once the most important figure in Doctor Who's development and the least understood, created a show that is genuinely magical and this influence cannot be erased from within the show," he does not mean that any of the hundreds of actors and writers who went on to work o.. | J.M.R. Higgs | ||
| 0eb6b0a | I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me. | Ba Jin | ||
| 7b40650 | How interesting that the Democrat, Martin Luther King, is identified with a principle that the Republican, Frederick Douglass, expressed even more eloquently so much earlier. How bizarre that the Democrats are presumed to be the party of civil rights when the very content of civil rights was formulated and developed by the GOP. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 14f56d7 | Political abstractions can disguise or change the meaning of the most elementary realities. | Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) | ||
| 4f62935 | First, it was far more energy-saving to foster relationships with positive people. Secondly, one of the laws of consciousness is that "like goes to like"; bitterness" | David R. Hawkins | ||
| c37ea1d | For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own. | Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) | ||
| fdb4d6f | In the welfare state, experience teaches nothing. | Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) | ||
| fbfe0bd | Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. | Ba Jin | ||
| cec4875 | Very few young people know this history. Most of them haven't even heard about Douglass; who hasn't heard of Martin Luther King? Am I suggesting that the scandalous neglect of Douglass and the excessive praise heaped on King is part of the progressive whitewash? You bet I am. But, say the Democratic and progressive historians, wait a minute! While King's program moved forward and was enacted into law, Douglass's program was halted in its tr.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| dc46717 | I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy. | Ba Jin | ||
| b61de6d | El doctor ama a sus pacientes y reza por ellos sin que lo sepan. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| b606db0 | One might say that depression is nature's way, God's way, and our own psychology's way of saying to us that the way we look at our life is not okay. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 213a275 | The purpose of sharing this approach is merely to put you in touch with your own inner feelings and experiences. In addition, there is much helpful information that your mind will want to know. The process of surrender will begin automatically, for it is the nature of the mind to seek relief from pain and suffering and to experience greater happiness. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| a691ad5 | What is it? Letting go is like the sudden cessation of an inner pressure or the dropping of a weight. It is accompanied by a sudden feeling of relief and lightness, with an increased happiness and freedom. It is an actual mechanism of the mind, and everyone has experienced it on occasion. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 8891c5f | This observation is in accord with scientific research. The Gray-LaViolette scientific theory integrates psychology and neurophysiology. Their research demonstrated that feeling tones organize thoughts and memory (Gray-LaViolette, 1981). Thoughts are filed in the memory bank according to the various shades of feelings associated with those thoughts. Therefore, when we relinquish or let go of a feeling, we are freeing ourselves from all of t.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| d51ef64 | It is the accumulated pressure of feelings that causes thoughts. One feeling, for instance, can create literally thousands of thoughts over a period of time. Think, for instance, of one painful memory from early life, one terrible regret that has been hidden. Look at all the years and years of thoughts associated with that single event. If we could surrender the underlying painful feeling, all of those thoughts would disappear instantly and.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 0b3b483 | A dog, for example, brings love and expands love in the heart of the owner. Love prolongs life. In fact, research documents that having a dog extends the owner's life by ten years! Just think of all the bizarre exercises, diets, and other regimens that people go through to add relatively small amounts of time on to their life, when they can simply get a dog and add ten years! Love has a powerful anabolic effect. Love increases endorphins, w.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 2656e78 | Has it made" is an inner attitude. Once we have that attitude, success is automatic. It's not a "so what?" It's an "of course." -- | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 20b3ca2 | Satisfaction and a feeling of success can be complete and total without anything at all happening "out there." That's what I mean by transcending the world, by no longer being dependent on the effect of it and the victim of "out there." Successful people have so many areas of satisfaction in their lives that they don't have any areas of vulnerability." | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 03e6b9f | When we've owned power, it's not what we have and it's not what we do that counts. It's who we are. It's what we become. Power is greatness. Greatness is stature. Stature is presence. | David R. Hawkins | ||
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| 89ea482 | Frequently it is said that depression is anger turned inward. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 85c7cf0 | Truth stands forth of its own when the obstacles are removed. The call is from within rather than a response to exhortation from without. The | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 7a8b975 | Commitment is to the core of Truth itself, and it is free of seduction by proselytization or secrecies. All that is necessary is a curiosity and attraction to Truth--which is complete, total, and self-sufficient. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 84deb62 | Does that mean we shouldn't make money? Of course it doesn't. There's nothing more fun than making money. It's a sport. It's a game. It brings lots of rewards, legitimate ones too. Why shouldn't we make all the money we want to make? But the differences are: want to make money, not have to; choose to do it, not need to. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| a8835c9 | Power is something we only have if we give it away. We can't give away what we don't have. True power grows: The more we give it away, the more we have it. It is self-reinforcing and self-augmenting. It's like creativity. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 259c951 | Owning power and creativity means unlimited abundance. That doesn't mean to be indifferent. That simply means to live from a place that is unthreatened. | David R. Hawkins |