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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0c9bbc9 | She couldn't help thinking this didn't feel anything like she'd imagined it would. Having run countless versions of this moment through her head, they'd all carried more gravitas. She would scream at him. She'd hit him. They'd break down and cry together. He'd apologize. She'd accept. She wouldn't. Now she understood none of that would happen. They were just two people sharing a table, trying to limp through the awkwardness. | Blake Crouch | ||
| f3c1e01 | Nothing exists. All is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you . . . And you are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. MARK TWAIN | Blake Crouch | ||
| 90a4465 | And maybe I can let go of the sting and resentment of the path not taken, because the path not taken isn't just the inverse of who I am. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 822befa | Pilcher lies on the gurney, blinking at the lights. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 7a6aa6f | Different in a thousand tiny ways that might mean nothing and might mean everything. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 78695f6 | Management: Thank you for the support and counsel. Angela Cheng Caplan and Joel VanderKloot: You're rock stars. So grateful to have you in my corner. A very special thanks to Jacque Ben-Zekry for a world-class | Blake Crouch | ||
| ad22956 | Day'll come, when he's grown and it's too late, that you'd give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy. To hold him. Read a book to him. Throw a ball with a person in whose eyes you can do no wrong. He doesn't see your failings yet. He looks at you with pure love and it won't last, so you revel in it while it's here | Blake Crouch | ||
| e87b17c | Ignoring her apology, Lucian pulled his cock free from his trousers. His thick shaft already hard and ready for her warm, tight mouth. "I will show pity on you, little one. Spread your thighs open nice and wide. If Papa does not find the sweet cream of your own arousal on your cunny, you will be spared." Once again, Corinne bit her lip in nervous mortification. She already knew her body was betraying her. There was just something about his .. | Zoe Blake | ||
| 553b984 | There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. --ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 046cd86 | Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 3180e67 | am talking about the freedom that comes from choosing to remain open, as my mother did, to life itself, whatever it may bring: joys, sorrows, triumphs, failures, suffering | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 3744d9f | certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 81f481a | Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century. Yet, the problem is particularly and essentially woman's. Distraction is, always has been, and probably always will be, inherent in woman's life. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| f820886 | I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going "down the drain." We do not see the results of our giving as concretely as man does his work. In the job of home-keeping there is no raise from the boss, and seldom praise from others to show us we have hit the mark. Except for the .. | motherhood woman-s-character woman-s-strength | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 6f2830f | Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion. The more one gives, the more one has the give - like milk in the breast. | giving-quotes selflessness | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| cfdc88a | One longs to explain, to be sure they understand, the people one loves. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| c5145df | seems to me the most beautiful thing on earth, perhaps because it is unearthly, and the touch of God in us: the miracle of mercy, the unexpected, the arms of the prodigal son's father, the ravens bringing food in the night, the cup running over. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 0811793 | We have had three appalling weeks, the kind one hardly believes while one is going through it. And afterwards, as now, it seems quite unbelievable--except for the inexplicable weariness. Written down it sounds merely funny. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| a53ac5e | When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; whe.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| db6a0a9 | When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only, are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| b09500f | Beautiful, fragile, fleeting, the sunrise shell; but not, for all that, illusory. Because it is not lasting, let us not fall into the cynic's trap and call it an illusion. Duration is not a test of true or false. The day of the dragon-fly or the night of the Saturnid moth is not invalid simply because that phase in its life cycle is brief. Validity need have no relation to time, to duration, to continuity. It is on another plane, judged by .. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| f1cecb8 | People are like that here. Strangers smile at you on the beach, come up and offer you a shell, for no reason, lightly, and then go by and leave you alone again. Nothing is demanded of you in payment, no social rite expected, no tie established. It was a gift, freely offered, freely taken, in mutual trust. People smile at you here, like children, sure that you will not rebuff them, that you will smile back. And you do, because you know it wi.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 425655c | One comes in the end to realize that there is no permanent pure-relationship and there should not be. It is not even something to be desired. The pure relationship is limited, in space and in time. In its essence it implies exclusion. It excludes the rest of life, other relationships, other sides of personality, other responsibilities, other possibilities in the future. It excludes growth. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| e3212ea | We all wish to be loved alone. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 5040061 | The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now. | future past | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 4fb2bde | One must lose one's life to find it. Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 549dcd8 | People, too, become like islands in such an atmosphere, self-contained, whole and serene; respecting other people's solitude, not intruding on their shores, standing back in reverence before the miracle of another individual. 'No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. We | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 0745540 | Modern communication loads us with more problems than the human frame can carry. [...] Our grandmothers, and even - with some scrambling - our mothers, lived in a circle small enough to let them implement in action most of the impulses of their hearts and minds. We were brought up in a tradition that has now become impossible, for we have extended our circle throughout space and time. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 5d9e3b8 | Because we cannot deal with the many as individuals, we sometimes try to simplify the many into an abstraction called the mass. Because we cannot deal with the complexity of the present, we often over-ride it and live in a simplified dream of the future. Because we cannot solve our own problems right here at home, we talk about problems out there in the world. An escape process goes on from the intolerable burden we have placed upon ourselv.. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 84770e1 | The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greed, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 8483243 | I begin to shed my Martha-like anxiety about many things. Washable slipcovers, faded and old--I hardly see them; I don't worry about the impression they make on other people. I am shedding pride. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| b6fae81 | Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense she has always been the pioneer. --ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 50bc3c7 | I remind myself that once upon a time, I trusted my instincts. You did, too. Once upon a time there weren't second and third guesses. It can be that way again. Try to contact the girl you once were. She's all grown up now. She's your authentic self and she's waiting to remind you how beautiful, accomplished, and extraordinary you really are. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 1965ba2 | The Gratitude Journal is a polite, daily thank-you note to the Universe | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 4271235 | I ask you to do today is to open "the eyes of your eyes" and give your life another glance.... Then pause for a moment and give thanks. Let your heart awaken to the transforming power of gratefulness. SIMPLE ABUNDANCE JANUARY13" | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 8fe81db | You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 212a626 | Turning away from the world and toward your own happiness is the path of authenticity. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| fb3b9ae | Seek not outside yourself, heaven is within. --MARY LOU COOK | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| f151c95 | Don't blame yourself for bad choices. Do attempt to make better ones. Most of our problems in handling money stem from unexamined patterns rather than from uncontrollable urges. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 1f9df90 | Necessities, Comforts, Wants, Indulgences, Extravagances, Insanity. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 5958ff6 | My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! --EDMUND WALLER | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 70e8896 | The thirteenth-century German mystic Meister Eckehart believed, "If the only prayer you ever say in your life is 'ThankYou,' it will be enough." | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 4b2ba59 | For thousands of years the creation of mandalas--circular, geometric designs--has been part of both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 44a494a | For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human," Phyllis McGinley reassures us in Saint-Watching. "They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical, or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven." | Sarah Ban Breathnach |