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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7d352d0 | For instance, 'the beer is never clear near here, dear' is unfortunate, even as assonance. | T. H. White | ||
| 6150cff | means | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| e358377 | exper'ence | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| 98c0088 | Oh, I love the mustard-pot!" cried the Wart. "Wherever did you get it?" At this the pot beamed all over its face and began to strut a bit, but Merlyn rapped it on the head with a teaspoon, so that it sat down and shut up at once. "It is not a bad pot," he said grudgingly. "Only it is inclined to give itself airs." | T.H. White | ||
| 6ccfe3e | If you achieve perfection, you die. | T.H. White | ||
| 5fae640 | Perhaps war was due to fear: to fear of reliability. Unless there was truth, and unless people told the truth, there was always danger in everything outside the individual. You told the truth to yourself, but you had no surety for your neighbour. This uncertainty must end by making the neighbour a menace. | politics war | T. H. White | |
| 714a60e | IT WAS CHRISTMAS night, the eve of the Boxing Day Meet. You must remember that this was in the old Merry England of Gramarye, when the rosy barons ate with their fingers, and had peacocks served before them with all their tail feathers streaming, or boars' heads with the tusks stuck in again--when there was no unemployment because there were too few people to be unemployed--when the forests rang with knights walloping each other on the helm.. | T.H. White | ||
| 7ed32a6 | In this enormous flatness, there lived one element--the wind. For it was an element. It was a dimension, a power of darkness. In the human world, the wind comes from somewhere, and goes somewhere, and, as it goes, it passes through somewhere--through trees or streets or hedgerows. This wind came from nowhere. It was going through the flatness of nowhere, to no place. Horizontal, soundless except for a peculiar boom, tangible, infinite, the .. | T.H. White | ||
| b0a7288 | Nay," said Sir Lancelot "...for once shamed may never be recovered." | T.H. White | ||
| 283a0aa | The best thing for being sad,' replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, 'is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then -.. | T.H. White | ||
| ce1e960 | They did not look at these things as good or bad, exciting, rational or terrible. They did not look at them at all, but accepted them as Done. | T.H. White | ||
| 886b57e | We are so numerous that we are starving. Therefore we must encourage still larger families so as to become yet more numerous and starving. When we are so numerous and starving as all that, obviously we shall have a right to take other people's stores of seed. Besides, we shall by then have a numerous and starving army. | T.H. White | ||
| d666df1 | We are more numerous than they are, therefore we have a right to their mash. They are more numerous than we are, therefore they are wickedly trying to steal our mash. We are a mighty race and have a natural right to subjugate their puny one. They are a mighty race and are unnaturally trying to subjugate our inoffensive one. We must attack them in self-defence. They are attacking us by defending themselves. If we do not attack them today, th.. | T.H. White | ||
| 52cdaa1 | Pets are almost always fatal, to oneself or to them. It is the curse of possession or motherhood. Mothers ruin their children, choke them like ivy. Dog-lovers steal the souls of their dogs and lose something in exchange. There is an essay on this subject by (I think) Stella Benson called "A Firefly to Steer By." Everybody ought to read it." -- | animals friendship motherhood mothers pets | T.H. White | |
| 2b72453 | Liberty, Equality and Fraternity...." began the badger. "Liberty, Brutality and Obscenity," rejoined the magician promptly. "You should tray living in some of the revolutions which use that slogan. First they proclaim it: then they announce that the aristos must be liquidated, on high moral grounds, in order to purge the party or to prune the commune or to make the world safe for democracy; and then they rape and murder everybody they can l.. | T.H.White | ||
| d033471 | What a bursting heart of gratitude and triumph as the ravening monster slowly paced down the arm with gripping steps and pounced upon his breakfast! The rest of the day was a glow of pleasure, a kind of still life in which the sun shone on the flowers with more than natural brilliance, giving them the high lights of porcelain. | goshawk | T.H. White | |
| c63d546 | One has to live one's knowledge | T.H. White | ||
| f07839b | Man, proud man, stands there in the twentieth century, complacently believing that the race has 'advanced' in the course of a thousand miserable years, and busy blowing his brothers to bits. When will they learn that it takes million years for a bird to modify a single one of its primary feathers? There he stands, the crashing lubber, pretending that everything is different because he has made an internal combustion engine. There he stands,.. | T.H. White | ||
| b3ff0c6 | Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people-- it is often very dangerous indeed to do things at all-- and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, the people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there i.. | T.H. White | ||
| 5b7bcaa | There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn - pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six.. | T.H. White | ||
| a4b6276 | It would be much the same thing if you each hired the best arguer you knew, to argue about it. In the last resort it is usually the richest person who wins, whether he hires the most expensive arguer or the most expensive fighter, so it is no good pretending that this is simply a matter of brute force. | T.H. White | ||
| 1951afe | Owls are the most courteous, single-hearted and faithful creatures living [...] Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom [...] No owl can possibly be called Archie. | T. H. White | ||
| 85c629e | T. H. White once said, "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment." | Dan John | ||
| 720c3c5 | You could talk to him about os and argos, suet and grease, croteys, fewmets and fiants, but he only looked polite. He knew that you were showing off your knowledge of these words, which were to him a business. You could talk about a mighty boar which had nearly slashed you last winter, but he only stared at you with his distant eyes. He had been slashed sixteen times by mighty boars, and his legs had white weals of shiny flesh that stretche.. | T.H. White | ||
| b2fe1ce | In The Goshawk, his diary of an attempt to train a bird of prey during the run-up to the First World War, T. H. White celebrated the pigeon's innate docility, even while he hunted them to feed to his hawk. 'What a peace-loving but prudent race they were', White wrote, 'not predatory and yet not craven. Of all the birds, I thought, they must be the best citizens, the most susceptible to the principles of the League of Nations. | Jon Day | ||
| 0cb7261 | THE Oldest Ones of All were gluttons. Probably it was because they seldom had enough to eat. You can read even nowadays a poem written by one of them, which is known as the Vision of Mac Conglinne. In this Vision there is a description of a castle made out of different kinds of food. The English for part of the poem goes like this: A lake of new milk I beheld In the midst of a fair plain. I saw a well-appointed house Thatched with butter. I.. | T.H. White | ||
| 467e909 | In the end they came to the inner chamber, where Morgan le Fay herself lay stretched upon her bed of glorious lard. | T.H. White | ||
| 564a193 | What will allow you to enter the world of great relationships is living in accord with the simple but powerful Laws of Love. | relationships the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| 92961b1 | In the eyes, heart, and mind of the one you love and who you want to love you, you will become, in essence, a new person. | love relationships the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| 1548d8a | We help our clients discover and correct the underlying conditions that are causing them to self-medicate, to seek relief in substances and addictive behavior. | relationships the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| e937e0c | You can easily see that if you are regularly nasty to your loved one, it won't be long before cause and effect sets in and undermines your relationship. The reverse is also true: if you are unceasingly caring and loving to your loved one and act with the Laws of Love in mind, you will be deeply loved in return and your relationship will thrive. | relationships the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| 0bc4f84 | What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all. | relationships self-help the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| b3545ff | Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude. | addiction addiction-cure addiction-treatment alcoholics-anonymous challenge change chris-prentiss opportunity reading writing | Chris Prentiss | |
| aeb9295 | Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing. | addiction-cure addiction-treatment chris-prentiss | Chris Prentiss | |
| f27bc6c | In the one-treatment-fits-all approach, clients sit in group meetings all day and all evening and listen to each other stories. At the end of the first week, everyone in the room knows everyone's story. That goes on for three more weeks, and then most people go home with the same problems they brought with them when they arrived. | addiction-treatment alcoholics-anonymous chris-prentiss substance-abuse | Chris Prentiss | |
| acc2ce3 | When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help others discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free. | alcoholism chris-prentiss holistic-health passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss | Chris Prentiss | |
| 6b23c21 | The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I'm aware. | addiction alcohol-rehab alcohol-treatment-center chris-prenitss depression drug-abuse drug-rehab drug-rehab-center non-12-step pax-prentiss substance-abuse | Chris Prentiss | |
| a275991 | Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing. | depression emotions inspiration life non-12-step passages-malibu passages-ventura positive-thinking quotes stress | Chris Prentiss | |
| cfd16b5 | How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that "once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict" and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?" | chris-prentiss holistic holistic-health non-12-step passages-malibu passages-rehab passages-treatment-center passages-ventura pax-prentiss therapy treatment wellbeing wellness zen-and-the-art-of-happiness | Chris Prentiss | |
| 8421a84 | Can you see that meetings and centers that don't address the real causes of dependency are almost certain to be little or no help? They actually can be very damaging. | alcoholism chris-prentiss dependency twelve-step-meetings | Chris Prentiss | |
| d202977 | There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy. | philosophy philosophy-of-life zen-and-the-art-of-happiness | Chris Prentiss | |
| 6432e34 | If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it. | happiness inspiration life passages-malibu passages-ventura quotes | Chris Prentiss | |
| dd611f5 | Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which produces yet more joy. | joy joyful-living music wisdom wu-wei | Wu Wei | |
| 12a34ba | Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be. | inspiration inspirational-quotes life passages-malibu passages-ventura perception | Chris Prentiss |