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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1bbeba1 | You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| f688ec2 | Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7844c6a | if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 798ae63 | living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b17d83c | You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 5e42417 | I'm the idiot box. I'm the TV. I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I'm the boob tube. I'm the little shrine the family gathers to adore.' 'You're the television? Or someone in the television?' 'The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.' She raised two fingers, blew imaginary gunsmoke from the tips. Then she .. | television | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1ee1d27 | Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it. | satanist tea | Neil Gaiman | |
| 430de75 | It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2a7cd24 | Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4b7a4bb | We have eyes and we have nerveses We have tails we have teeth You'll all get what you deserveses When we rise from underneath. | gaiman lyrics | Neil Gaiman | |
| d886a1c | It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart. Despair says little, and is patient. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e1ca4e4 | You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control it. I mean, It's like there's these bad worlds inside you. But it's just you... it's like you're betraying yourself. | nightmares | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0e01159 | I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 65506cd | A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don't try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable. | risk | Robert Greene | |
| 185f162 | I saw in her expression that old, unshakable mountain of concern. And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know | Mitch Albom | ||
| a56f958 | Have I told you about the tension of opposites? he says. The tension of opposites? Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.Sounds.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7b13c38 | I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ef71d76 | No soul remembered is ever really gone. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4f1d5b2 | Mma Ramotswe sighed. 'We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.' That is true,' said Mma Potokwane sadly. 'There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them. | ramotswe temptation | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 4a94387 | dh Hyl byn nsn whdfh fqd quDy `lyh blmwt .. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f6f9e6b | I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a20a0f1 | I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway. | high-school teens | John Scalzi | |
| 27b1219 | When we start being too impressed by the results of our work, we slowly come to the erroneous conviction that life is one large scoreboard where someone is listing the points to measure our worth. And before we are fully aware of it, we have sold our soul to the many grade-givers. That means we are not only in the world, but also of the world. Then we become what the world makes us. We are intelligent because someone gives us a high grade. .. | anxiety fear self-esteem success work | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| b56f60c | Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. | teachers | Jeannette Walls | |
| c2b4b36 | Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it. | solitude | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 80074cf | If I dare to hear you | Mark Nepo | ||
| cef29ba | Geniuses never pay attention. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c0b7235 | We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a356d4a | Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day. | Saul Bellow | ||
| a62cd8d | open me carefully | emily-dickinson letter | Emily Dickinson | |
| 8c9bf21 | Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 7436ec0 | You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time... | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 95cf715 | I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 63e11b8 | I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin might find me interesting enough to sleep with. And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 6cd3f27 | If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person's actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It's a no-win situation. It's a death penalty really. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 6dab36e | Armel shrugged. "I suppose so, Brother, but why do creatures have to fight?" Demple picked Mudge up and placed him on his shoulder. "Because there's always good and bad in the land, and goodbeasts have to protect their friends an' families from evil ones who want nothing but to conquer an' destroy." | Brian Jacques | ||
| 2d446de | He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| d7d9c7e | Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window. | risk | Dick Francis | |
| 2f87ffc | It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| a1edfba | Bethany." His quiet voice intruded. Her heart turned over heavily. "This is real right?" His face contorted as if he were in pain. "Yes, it's real." Crazy people probably did things like this all the time. Asked their imaginary alien friends if they were real, and of course, they'd say yes." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 035fe65 | There was something soul-burningly about being on the brink of losing control, tumbling over into the unknown, and I wanted to fall and never resurface. --Jennifer L. Armentrout | katy losing-control onyx | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 5dd0717 | For once, I don't hurt. I don't worry. I want this. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d739a9a | There were always choices. I'd made a string of bad ones myself. At least I could admit that. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c0875ea | Seth burst into laughter. . | Jennifer L. Armentrout |