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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8ffa882 | Sometimes when a friendship is in trouble, it is not to be healed by endless analysis or counseling. You need to change the rhythm of seeing each other and come in contact again with the ancient belonging that brought you together. If you invoke its power and presence around you, this ancient affinity will hold you together. Two people who are really awakened inhabit the one circle of belonging. They have awakened a more ancient force aroun.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 87620da | Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. | Adversity | ||
| 8d04cab | In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. | Adversity | ||
| 9d3345b | If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small. | Adversity | ||
| bb4baaf | I knew I was dead, even if my parents didn't notice. | Ruth Ozeki | ||
| 6573ca1 | abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity... | Adversity | ||
| e81d06a | Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. | Adversity | ||
| 65918f4 | Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. | Adversity | ||
| 649edc1 | If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. -- If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. -- Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. -- Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. -.. | Robert Kurson | ||
| 0a0ac2d | A telegraph on display in a diver's living room, therefore, is much more than a shiny object; it is an announcement. It says, If someone had been to this ship's wheelhouse before me, he would not have left this telegraph behind. | Robert Kurson | ||
| 3f582cc | Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution. -- WWII German U-Boat Commander Eric Topp | life luck | Robert Kurson | |
| c0b9764 | If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. -- If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. -- Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. -- Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. -.. | Robert Kurson | ||
| f93d966 | If an undertaking was easy, someone els already would have done it. ~ If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. ~ Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. ~ Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. ~ Examin.. | Robert Kurson | ||
| 638e280 | If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. ~ If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. ~ Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. ~ Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. ~ Exami.. | Robert Kurson | ||
| 3c6d3f1 | Not all divers succumb to panic as Drozd did. A great diver learns to stand down his emotions. At the moment he becomes lost or blinded or tangled or trapped, that instant when millions of years of evolution demand fight or flight and narcosis carves order from his brain, he dials down his fear and contracts into the moment until his breathing slows and his narcosis lightens and his reason returns. In this way he overcomes his humanness and.. | Robert Kurson | ||
| 45bdb89 | Longfellow smiled. "A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory." | life meaning-of-life | Matthew Pearl | |
| 235eabf | It is the one time Dante calls such explicit attention to the idea of contrapasso-a word for which we have no exact translation, no precise definition in English, because the word in itself is its definition... Well, my dear Longfellow, I would say countersuffering ... the notion that each sinner must be punished by continuing the damage of his own sin against him... just as these Schismatics are cut apart... | divine-comedy sin | Matthew Pearl | |
| 92c25ba | Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. | Adversity | ||
| 28e91d6 | As for the other central vowels, do you know the song "Better Man" by Pearl Jam? (No judgment if not; they've done better.) See if you can find it on YouTube. Listen to the part of the chorus where Eddie Vedder sings "Can't find a better man." Hear how his voices changes--how it kind of sounds huskier? This is something you heard a lot in the nineties (Scott Weiland did it; Shakira does it a lot; Dave Matthews did a lot [or Dave, as his tru.. | David J. Peterson | ||
| a4a17f8 | We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two," Lowell suggested." | vices | Matthew Pearl | |
| 42c83b6 | Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below, respectively, not from the inside: safer advantages. | john-milton | Matthew Pearl | |
| e0096fe | No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a mild patience that he reserved only for students. "The Italians forever twitch at Dante's sleeves trying to make him say he is of their politics and their way of thinking. Their way indeed! To confine it to Florence or Italy is to banish it from the sympathies of mankind. We read Paradise Lost as a poem but Dante's Comedy as a chronicle of o.. | divine-comedy john-milton paradise-lost | Matthew Pearl | |
| 43fbff3 | Dante is the first Christian poet, the first one whose whole system of thought is colored by a pure Christian theology. But the poem comes nearer to us than this. It is there real history of a brother man, of a tempted, purified, and at last triumphant human soul; it teaches the benign ministry of sorrow. His is the first keel that ever ventured into the silent sea of human consciousness to find a new world of poetry. He held heartbreak at .. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| eb9ff26 | Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me HIS for longer than I wish. Good afternoon." Lowell had a way of leaving a conversation with the other person needing more from him." | friendship | Matthew Pearl | |
| 29e87d2 | When Christina would stop to examine an interesting insect or patch of moss, Gabriel would stand in an impatient pose and shrug, not seeing what was at all interesting about it. Sometimes when writing her children's lyrics she thought of Gabriel and Lizzie's son, had he lived, and what he might have grown into. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| ec0df8f | If you remove the negative people from your life, God will bring positive people into it. Is your inner circle of friends holding you back? Are those closest to you with you but not for you? If you find that it takes constant effort to win their support and encouragement, they likely don't understand your destiny. The Scripture says, "Do not throw your pearls before swine" (Matthew 7:6 NASB). You could say your pearl is your gift, your pers.. | Joel Osteen | ||
| b600b5c | When he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it." --Matthew 13:46 (NKJV)" | Guideposts | ||
| 3c5763a | I never fully realized how much a New England birth in itself was worth, but I am happy that that was my lot. I have felt it so keenly these last few days. Dear old New England, with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions; the home of all that is good and noble. | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 7004d36 | Lo giorno se n'andava" - Day was departing..." Dante slows his deliberation as he prepares to enter the infernal realms for the first time: "... e io sol uno" - "and only I alone..." -how lonely he felt! He has to say it three times! io, sol, uno... "m'apparecchiava a sostener la guerra, si del cammino e si de la pietate." | loneliness-or-solitude | Matthew Pearl | |
| d3b75a8 | E. C. FERGINS | Matthew Pearl | ||
| 5745c6c | Matthew emerged from sleep slowly, luxuriously. It must be nearly noon. He swam up from the depths of a calm warm sea. The glittering sea of the far south that he'd read about. A blue sea under a glorious sun. A sea full of pearls and exotic creatures and soft silky water. And mermaids. Indubitably there were mermaids in this sea. His particular mermaid slept naked in his arms. When he was inside her, she undulated in endless waves like a s.. | grace-paget matthew-lansdowne sea | Anna Campbell | |
| f240291 | BE WISE Don't tell your husband your truth if he will use it to hurt, ridicule, manipulate, trap, or abuse you. Matthew 7:6 says, "Do not throw your pearls to pigs." Your truth is the center of who you are. It is precious and needs to be protected. Be careful not to expose too much of your heart to someone who will stomp all over it. 8 SET BOUNDARIES The Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.. | Karla Downing | ||
| e300166 | Ramsey made the mistake of guessing it didn't and shook his head, gaining him a scowl and a blasphemy from the cantankerous baron | cantankerous english | Julie Garwood | |
| 08af1bc | sleet | Julie Garwood | ||
| 09bc356 | stopped after the sirens blared past him. Milo raised his head. Seeing no one, he darted from the garbage heap and raced down the road to his car. As he drove away from the abandoned building, he held tight to the steering wheel to keep his hands from shaking. Lyra had barely escaped being shot by her attackers, and he felt an overwhelming sense of guilt. He had put his love in terrible danger. This was all his fault. He never should have t.. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 15ebb83 | I guess you could cross off the artist, Oregano." "Cinnamon," she corrected. "Her name is Cinnamon." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 4500fd1 | Odysseus and his soldiers to certain destruction. Odysseus | Julie Garwood | ||
| 9e70a52 | A barren woman served no purpose in this kingdom. Her very reason for existing had been snatched away. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 20644c6 | had made them stop. "Did they throw stones at the man who spit in his drink?" Judith wanted to know." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 75bf146 | Criminals are getting younger and dumber, | Julie Garwood | ||
| a97331c | Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON | Julie Garwood | ||
| 6745fb5 | You kill a cockroach, Pete. You don't domesticate him. | Julie Garwood | ||
| c929b53 | Hate the sin, not the sinner. | Julie Garwood | ||
| f7ea951 | You're way too serious for your own good. I personally think you suffer from middle-child syndrome. You know, you're filled with insecurities and phobias, and you have this need to constantly prove yourself. | Julie Garwood |