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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 731341b | THE VENOM OF THE NORTH WIND July 1774 Brianna drove the sharp end of the spade into the muddy bank and pulled out a | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f524460 | But we must not judge, thee knows, most particularly by appearance. Even one who seems most frivolous, spendthrift, or light-minded yet has a soul and is valuable before God. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 04e610b | I gave ye three things that day,' he said softly. 'My name, my family, and the protection of my body. You'll have those things always, Sassenach - so long as we both shall live. No matter where we may be. I willna let ye go hungry or cold; I'll let nothing harm ye, ever. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| bb97995 | When ye set about a difficult quest--if ye're Kahnyen'kehaka, I mean--ye generally go aside for a time, to fast and pray for guidance. We havena time to be doing that now, of course. But often, while ye're doing that, ye choose a talisman--or to be right about it, it chooses you--" He sounded completely matter-of-fact about this procedure, Roger noted. "And ye carry it with ye through the quest, to keep the attention of the spirits upon you.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 32eee5b | La curacion proviene del paciente, no del medico. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8625b5b | They're girls," she replied briefly. "They were born in danger and will live their lives in that condition, regardless of circumstance." But" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 05e325c | You don't forget. You simply get to the point where you don't care what birth will feel like; anything is better than being pregnant for an instant longer. I'd reached that point roughly two weeks before my due date. The date | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e796b7b | the fragrant bunches of nettle and dried lavender overhead, dusty gold | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a60aeac | Your face is my heart, Sassenach,' he said softly, 'and love of you is my soul. But | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 6e54df5 | So now thee has doomed thy kinsman, repudiated thy father, and caused me to betray my principles. What next?!" "Oh, bloody hell," he said, and grabbed her arms, pulled her roughly to him, and kissed her. He let go and stepped back quickly, leaving her bug-eyed and gasping. The" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e04f739 | It is easier to kill someone to save your own life than it is to hurt someone to save theirs. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 25d8bd7 | Every legend has one foot on the truth. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a6e5cd0 | Created by Your hand as You created man, Life given for life. That me and mine may eat with thanks for the gift, That me and mine may give thanks for Your own sacrifice of blood and flesh, Life given for life." The" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0a9a2cc | we've had some luck, both good and bad. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4d327a7 | The lawyer had gone a mottled red and gray, like a bad oyster, but said nothing. Jamie | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 559cb03 | hat and | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| cf3665d | a bit self-conscious. "I used to wear mine long as well. It's short now because the monks had to shave the back of my head and it's had but a few months to grow again." He bent forward at the waist, inviting me" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0d7ad27 | had noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconscious knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought. In older, more primitive times (like these? asked another part of my mind), it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring y.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a7ec545 | Superstition and sensation are always so much more appealing than truth and rationality. The | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1ca9f99 | A friend once told me, 'The body has nay conscience.' I dinna ken that that's entirely so--but it is true that the body doesna generally admit the possibility of nonexistence. And if ye exist--well, ye need food, that's all. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4e0cb4a | Yes, Madame. The Jews of Frankfort are not allowed to use family names." He looked up and smiled lopsidedly. "For the sake of convenience, the neighbors call us after an old red shield that was painted on the front of our house, many years ago. But beyond that ... no, Madame. We have no name." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 053701b | What I want to preserve are not just beautiful places but the possibility that an individual can, in this overheated, overcrowded world, find a place to be quiet and alone. To have their own freedom. Is this really too much to ask? Shouldn't there be a few places left to get away from motors? From the incessant roar of machines? | David Gessner | ||
| 5d2646d | Then everything in Germany became black, white and red--the colors of the Third Reich.12 She thought of something that Professor Moholy-Nagy used to say: I don't care to participate in this sort of optical event. | William T. Vollmann | ||
| 7f0ea2e | One of the reasons people steer clear of environmentalism is all the guilt associated with it. The creepy feeling that by doing what everyone else in one's society is doing - driving, washing the dishes, catching a flight - we are bringing about the end of the world. | David Gessner | ||
| aa7655b | Ten acres and a mule. | Agriculture | ||
| 003f29a | Three acres and a cow. | Agriculture | ||
| 3b2c697 | Una biblioteca es un lugar donde hallar lo conveniente en el momento oportuno. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 1a14a77 | simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. | Henry Adams | ||
| 02cd6a2 | And do not condemn yourself for having been distracted. Distractions are natural. They come and they go. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| f55456a | But don't you hear what I've said?' David cried. 'It's this very vengeance and betrayal that's torn our country apart. Where will it end? If we believe in God, we must believe in a divine justice that in time will restore sanity.' 'I have no time,' said Mireille. 'I will not wait for God. | Katherine Neville | ||
| 38f78dd | knew, for it allowed the valiant Black Knight (in the guise of her father and tutor) to leap to the front over the heads of the other pieces, and take charge. After a daring Queen sacrifice that brought murmurs from the crowd and gave her the center board, it appeared that Solarin's fearlessly aggressive little warrior would -at the very least -go over the Reichenbach Falls and take young Professor Azov with her in a deathlike embrace. But .. | Katherine Neville | ||
| b9afb71 | Las musas tenian por costumbre aniquilar a los que inspiraban. | Katherine Neville | ||
| bf97a7a | Total control over the movement of your mind within the subjective field hands you mastery of your fate. | Katherine Jegede | ||
| 5f89457 | Everything is dangerous. No activity is entirely without risk, but that does not mean that we should wrap ourselves in a protective cocoon. That is not living, but is premature death. The way to deal with danger is to know approximately how much of it there is, where it is likely to be found, and how to deal with it when it arises. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 7437aca | May my enemies be well, happy, and peaceful; may no difficulties come to them; may no problem come to them; may they always meet with success. May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| b46fdd5 | Place no head above your own." By this he meant, don't just accept somebody else's word. See for yourself. We want you to apply this attitude to every word" -- | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| c306dd8 | With practice, this habit pattern replaces our normal habit of egoistic comparison and feels far more natural in the long run. We become very understanding people as a result. We no longer get upset by the "failings" of others. We progress toward harmony with all life." | Bhante Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 18ee970 | The mind does not stay all the time with the feeling of breath. It goes to sounds, memories, emotions, perceptions, consciousness, and mental formations as well. When we experience these states, we should forget about the feeling of breath and immediately focus our attention on these states -- one at a time, not all of them at one time. As they fade away, we let our mind return to the breath, which is the home base the mind can return to fr.. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 781f8b6 | The way out of a trap is to study the trap itself, learn how it is built. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 9c90427 | Pain exists in the universe; some measure of it is unavoidable. Learning to deal with it is not pessimism, but a very pragmatic form of optimism. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| d193284 | It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 77cde2a | Let's begin with a quotation from mindfulness expert and teacher Bhante Henepola Gunaratana. It beautifully encapsulates what deceptive brain messages are, what they do to you, and how they keep you from following the path of your true self: We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those [thoughts] for reality. We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream that reality flows by unnoticed. We spend our time .. | Jeffrey M. Schwartz | ||
| a004d72 | Don't think about your problems during your practice. Push them aside very gently. Take a break from all that worrying and planning. Let your meditation be a complete vacation. Trust yourself, trust your own ability to deal with these issues later, using the energy and freshness of mind that you built up during your meditation. Trust yourself this way and it will actually occur. Don | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| d8e869f | protective cocoon. That is not living, but is premature death. The way to deal with danger is to know approximately how much of it there is, where it is likely to be found, and how to deal with it when it arises. | Henepola Gunaratana |