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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aeaf4f8 | All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d1de58e | The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 16aa070 | A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am ke.. | existentialism morality | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 7332473 | Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength. | David James Duncan | ||
| 1a7fab7 | The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire and play golf? It doesn't work that way. It can't. I fight until I drop. And one day, I will drop. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f51574a | Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 48c277d | We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 13e56d2 | You don't need princes to save you. I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. | fairy-tales inspriational lesbianism love strong-heroine women women-s-strength | Neil Gaiman | |
| 06c8828 | He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn't know. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f71aea6 | The key to such power is ambiguity. In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine. | seduction | Robert Greene | |
| 8574cf0 | Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today. | Robert Greene | ||
| 16dc48e | Some 2,600 years ago the ancient Greek poet Pindar wrote, "Become who you are by learning who you are." What he meant is the following: You are born with a particular makeup and tendencies that mark you as a piece of fate. It is who you are to the core. Some people never become who they are; they stop trusting in themselves; they conform to the tastes of others, and they end up wearing a mask that hides their true nature. If you allow yours.. | Robert Greene | ||
| cf73e49 | Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions. | power | Robert Greene | |
| 42a85fb | The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use. | internalization practical-application quality | Robert Greene | |
| ed25a1f | Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1eae29e | You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b7a867e | There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast. | moments recast take-back | Mitch Albom | |
| b8ee2a8 | But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them? | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 183d012 | n ldh~ yshqy ls`d lns l yhwn `lyh sfk dmy'hm | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 087bca4 | Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough. | being-human intolerance mutants | John Scalzi | |
| a691a4f | When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 92968e2 | Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home. | valis | Philip K. Dick | |
| b0574a4 | The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 801c145 | I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 7418e32 | When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light... | William S. Burroughs | ||
| d70ccba | dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so... | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 62e0bde | Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started .. | egypt | William S. Burroughs | |
| 76057db | I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| ecaebad | For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive. | Joseph Heller | ||
| c761d14 | She seemed imprisoned in her sadness. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 658282c | A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of clinging to Jesus while being misunderstood, dismissed, and judged by those she loved most. Me included. It had cost her to love, had cost her much to mother. It always does. But she would tell you that it's worth it, that there is no other way. | love truth | John and Stasi Eldredge | |
| fe8624a | Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah | Francine Rivers | ||
| b89daed | The same thing happened over and over: I would catch sight of some flawless man in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| ee0a969 | When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him. | john-updike solipsism | David Foster Wallace | |
| 3966426 | It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people. | patriotism superiority | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 97a754d | If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| d19537d | That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them. | 1990 bitterness human-nature murphy-s-law sabine-de-kercoz | A.S. Byatt | |
| c271476 | Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| ebd9cfc | It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b73b4b9 | Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. | learning life survival winning | Orson Scott Card | |
| 76d2c8a | I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself. | humor self-awareness yoga | Robin McKinley | |
| 85b56d2 | I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9175190 | tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 36e6e92 | And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. | misfortunes | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |