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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f813a1f | How strange women are. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f0aa508 | Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished. | mystical mysticism religion | Tom Robbins | |
| de80387 | I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits. | inspirational | Brené Brown | |
| 6a6121b | Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves--a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that's God, for others it's nature, art, or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and ov.. | spirituality vulnerability | Brené Brown | |
| 0d4ab5a | Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." -- | Brené Brown | ||
| 9280066 | At night I no longer dreamed, nor did I let my imagination work during the day. The once vibrant escapes of watching myself fly through the clouds in bright blue costumes, were now a thing of the past. When I fell asleep, my soul became consumed in a black void. I no longer awoke in the mornings refreshed; I was tired and told myself that I had one day less to live in this world. I shuffled through my chores, dreading every moment of every .. | Dave Pelzer | ||
| 88732d9 | She says to me, but were we ever intimate? How intimate were we really? Sure, there were the ordinary familiarity-type things - our bodies, our bodily discharges and stains and seepages, an encyclopedic knowledge of each other's family grudges, knowledge of each other's early school yard slights, our dietary peccadilloes, our tv remote control channel-changing styles. And yet... And yet? And yet in the end did we ever really give each other.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
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| fc3331c | It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| ed6c55e | I can't listen to you. I can't listen to your voice. It's as though I'd drunk a bottle of anise and fallen asleep wrapped in a quilt of roses. It pulls me along - and I know I'm drowning - but I go on down. | federico-garcia-lorca love self-destruction | Federico García Lorca | |
| 4f574e4 | The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her. | Graham Greene | ||
| 55bebbf | Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. | despair hope | Graham Greene | |
| 35e40b5 | Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| a5029eb | I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, | Clive Barker | ||
| 9daf83f | No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; | humility | T.S. Eliot. | |
| fcb1902 | Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others. | trouble | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 067c066 | Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others. | science | Richard Dawkins | |
| a2f69a2 | Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day. | undervalued | Oscar Wilde | |
| 8e9cd62 | In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sl.. | longing | Toni Morrison | |
| 760660e | Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. | money motivation | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 5127910 | I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air. | disillusionment reality sita | Christopher Pike | |
| 97fef53 | It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me. | red-dice | Christopher Pike | |
| 6f61aa5 | I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute. | hate love | Christopher Pike | |
| f03bc84 | How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92) | transcendence | Joseph Campbell | |
| 7b0c75a | Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come. | writing | Joseph Campbell | |
| 42a654d | Too late Bella. Now, it's too late. Show me. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 2331074 | when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 93b417b | Being an American means never having to say you're sorry. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 5648722 | The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's going on." | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 17a276f | Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now. | science | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 27d687f | and in freedom, most people find sin. | John Green | ||
| d191adc | At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them. | John Green | ||
| 0e8b49e | I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it." | John Green | ||
| 0d1b03c | He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a lacquered wooden boat approached us on the canal below. One of them, a woman with curly blond hair, maybe thirty, drank from a beer then raised her glass towards us and shouted something. "We don't speak Dutch," Gus shouted back. One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful." | John Green | ||
| 55e2a5a | but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. | John Green | ||
| 9358710 | I don't know about you, but I say we shoot the fuckers, bury the bodies and deny they were ever here." - Mordecai" | Lora Leigh | ||
| 6347ad3 | He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 613ddff | Dear God," "It should be illegal for smug vampires to look that good," Lindsey said, clucking her tongue. "That is so true," I agreed, thinking a little less hotness would make my relationship with Ethan a lot simpler." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 899590f | Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms. And she kissed my cheek and whispered so nobody could hear. "I love you." | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 3b9ce48 | When to stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| b087a67 | The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 4408126 | It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone. | home | Alison Bechdel | |
| 5221148 | CONFESSION NO. 18 Girls just want to have fun...and live to tell about it the next day. | Ronda Thompson | ||
| 7736102 | Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell. | Marianne Williamson |