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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0305291 | After all, the true seeing is within. | within | George Eliot | |
| 1e8abf6 | At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| f871f7c | The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you. | mindfulness | Dante Alighieri | |
| b21108c | As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 20b9d6c | I hug her one more time and pull her down to the bed. And in my mind, I rise up from the bed and look down on us, and look down at everybody else in this hospital who might have the good fortune of holding a pretty girl right now, and then at the entire Brooklyn block, and then the neighborhood, and then Brooklyn, and then New York City, and then the whole Tri-State Area, and then this little corner of America- with laser eyes I can see int.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 378821e | Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5e737a4 | meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking | religious | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| ef1688c | Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| caaae97 | It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b6bed09 | I like stories where women save themselves. | Neil gaiman | ||
| c3390a7 | Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I mean, what does it mean to you? In your head? Dream: Well, I use it to refer that area of existence over which I exert a certain amount of control or influence. In my case, the realm and action of dreaming. Delirium: Hump. It's more than that. The things we do make echoes. S'pose, f'rinstance, you stop on a street corner and admire a brillian.. | dream neil-gaiman responsibility the-dreaming the-endless the-kindly-ones the-sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| a916467 | With our limited senses and consciousness, we only glimpse a small portion of reality. Furthermore, everything in the universe is in a state of constant flux. Simple words and thoughts cannot capture this flux or complexity. The only solution for an enlightened person is to let the mind absorb itself in what it experiences, without having to form a judgment on what it all means. The mind must be able to feel doubt and uncertainty for as lon.. | Robert Greene | ||
| b2865e9 | the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next. | Mitch Albom | ||
| e9c79c8 | The tension of opposites: | tuesdays-with-morrie | Morrie Schwartz | |
| 64dba51 | Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2ebb680 | I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk. | John Scalzi | ||
| 349317a | Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good. | poverty self-esteem | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 3b4fde6 | We have a new type of rule now. Not one-man rule, or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to positions of absolute power by random pressures, and subject to political and economic factors that leave little room for decision. They are representatives of abstract forces who have reached power through surrender of self. The iron-willed dictator is a thing of the past. There will be no more Stalins, no more Hitlers. T.. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 32c1bc9 | When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 13f9e82 | Power is neither male or female. | Michael Crichton | ||
| ac95d48 | The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store. Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill." | fascism plutocracy politics right-wing-politics | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 984f58c | My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. | immortality life | Emily Dickinson | |
| 03f7c77 | As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| b7facbe | Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't. | job life profession | Dick Francis | |
| f85c941 | The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 0aa9af6 | Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest. He looked out at the hoardes of singing, laughing people and felt more alone than he'd ever felt in his life. Was this how it was going to be then? Was this who he was? A man apart from his fellows, making the journey through life alone? | shyness social-anxiety | Mary Lawson | |
| 58d8e2b | There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| ba3f9cb | The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? | devil evil mankind truth | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| f7d01d4 | It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate? | illusion love relationships true-love wisdom | Nora Ephron | |
| 99d9eec | The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.. | luddites technophobes | Ben Elton | |
| 4cb221b | On ne sait jamais! One never knows! | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 5f21d6d | Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked. - In order to forget - replied the drunkard. - To forget what? - inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him. - To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head. - Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him. - Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence. And the little prince went away, puzzle.. | grown-ups problem-solving self-respect | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| e7f753d | Apollo nodded and Dionysus bowed to the room, sweeping his arms out to the sides with a flourish. And then he was gone. I shook my head. "Okay. Who else thinks he was high as a kite?" Hands went up across the room and I grinned." | apollo dionysus | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 6237f8e | Get out of my head." "I can't help it," Archer replied from where he sat on the couch. "You're broadcasting your thoughts so damn loudly I feel like I need to go sit in the corner and start rocking, whispering Daemon's name over and over again." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b7c9927 | Karma was a bitch and a half. | covenant-series jennifer-l-armentrout sentinel | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 9d47386 | We've been separated. But we had never really been apart. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c81bbc2 | He was a jerk. Moody. But there had been brief moments that I'd spent with him--like a nanosecond--when I thought I might have seen the real Daemon. At | lux-series obsidian | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 3630694 | It wasn't like there was an alien hiding under the table, moving crap around for fun. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| dbc4ee5 | Letting my heart instead of my hormones decide when to do it made what Aiden and I'd done special. And when we passed each other throughout the day, the looks we stole suddenly meant more. Everything meant more, because we both were risking it all and neither of us regretted that. | risk-taking | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| a09cded | For after the Battle comes quiet. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 5022dc8 | Nico leaned over the edge o the chasm, thrusting out his hand, but he was much too far away to help. Hazel was yelling for the others, but even if they heard her over the chaos, they'd never make it in time. Annabeth's leg felt like it was pulling free of her body. Pain washed everything in red. The force of the Underworld tugged at her like dark gravity. She didn't have the strength to fight. She knew she was too far down to be saved. "Per.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| a377405 | The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3fa4839 | Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 37bcd42 | Jason hated being an old man. | funny heroes-of-olympus humor jason-grace | Rick Riordan |