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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fe82fbb | We'll all go out together when we go. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. Oh, how the world will die From great fire in the sky. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go." (Total) Call me old fashioned but I'll take 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' any day." | James Patterson | ||
| 3278743 | Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe. | James Patterson | ||
| 26b4be7 | Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it. | James Patterson | ||
| 59165e3 | There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on . But if the above whipped your mind into a frenzy, here's something even more interesting: Fang started a blog. Not that he's self-absorbed or trendy or anything. Nope, not him. | James Patterson | ||
| 632bf99 | Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves? | children parents | Jeffrey Archer | |
| 20f0b19 | You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it." | oprah | Oprah Winfrey | |
| 236ec45 | But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shad.. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 765bfe9 | To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 0268881 | Among all the other nights upon nights, the girl had spent that one on the boat....when it happened, the burst of Chopin.... There wasn't a breath of wind and the music spread all over the dark boat, like a heavenly injunction whose import was unknown, like an order from God whose meaning was inscrutable. And the girl started up as if to go and kill herself in her turn, throw herself in her turn into the sea, and afterwards, she wept becaus.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| d23396c | There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. | inspiration | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| f6810cb | Minds were made for blowing. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3f88f14 | Reality whistles a different tune underwater. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a234fed | February is pitiless, and it is boring. That parade of red numerals on its page adds up to zero: birthdays of politicians, a holiday reserved for rodents, what kind of celebrations are those? The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine's Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine's Day on February's shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ed85e70 | It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 2e2857b | Sometimes the most dangerous thing for kids is the silence that allows them to construct their own stories--stories that almost always cast them as alone and unworthy of love and belonging. | Brené Brown | ||
| e95aff0 | TEN GUIDEPOSTS FOR WHOLEHEARTED LIVING 1. Cultivating authenticity: letting go of what people think 2. Cultivating self-compassion: letting go of perfectionism 3. Cultivating a resilient spirit: letting go of numbing and powerlessness 4. Cultivating gratitude and joy: letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark 5. Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty 6. Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparis.. | Brené Brown | ||
| df80067 | It's always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun. | Brené Brown | ||
| 0652e1b | Of all the things trauma takes away from us, the worst is our willingness, or even our ability, to be vulnerable. There's a reclaiming that has to happen. | Brené Brown | ||
| 960b6f2 | Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish - expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly. Making it look easy. | happiness ideal-love ideal-lover jellyfish love marriage other-half peace perfection relationships soul-mate soul-mates true-love unconditional-love | Gillian Flynn | |
| 282e205 | I don't even want to ask,' he said. 'You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f17f93c | When I was fourteen, I thought a lot about killing myself--it's a hobby today, but at age fourteen it was a vocation. On a September morning, just after school started, I'd gotten Diane's .44 Magnum and held it, babylike, in my lap for hours. What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart. But I thought about Diane, and her coming home to my s.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a77ab7e | my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he .. | abusive abusive-parents anger broken-home childhood childhood-memories communication divorce emotional-abuse family father fight fighting fights fury heartbreak heartbroken love love-lost malice mental-abuse mother parenthood parents parents-and-children rage scared sexism silence terror | Gillian Flynn | |
| dadcb05 | He's calling you a Cool Girl to fool you! That's what men do: they try to make it sound like you are the cool girl so you will bow to their wishes. Like a car salesman saying, how much do you want to pay for this beauty? When you didn't agree to buy it yet. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 33f03f8 | Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go. | Joan Didion | ||
| 9ec7834 | Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She's never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it." | Alice Sebold | ||
| 6b8cf94 | The more you read, the more you calm down. | reading | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 8c3d589 | She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 7670f3f | She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken. | Ayn Rand | ||
| c4b67d8 | A "collective" mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent - who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the "whole" and accept humbly that the "whole's" verdict - we don't get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind." | group-think | Ayn Rand | |
| 55a3af9 | A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom. | integrity people | Ayn Rand | |
| 74f70e8 | If you want to keep a friend, never test him. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f3ea055 | And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. | pain | Arthur Golden | |
| 5c81a28 | Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls. | nora roberts | Nora Roberts | |
| 04ab180 | The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave. | Nora Roberts | ||
| b7502b5 | Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance. | Dan Brown | ||
| f15440d | Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)" -- | James Frey | ||
| bb40c1c | Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. | creativity inspirational writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| fa80e70 | As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be. | love possibilities | Anne Carson | |
| 31ddc78 | If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet. | Jung Chang | ||
| db55475 | But, - and there it is, - we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality. | Jack London | ||
| bc239df | such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe... | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 7a455ff | She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him. | charles-dickens elopement entrancement reading | Eudora Welty | |
| c50b7f7 | There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us; and if we dream at s.. | sleep | Charles Dickens | |
| 57f811d | Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason | life | Charles Dickens |