...Quotables @ Bookshelf ...

seribulan

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."

— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”

— Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

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“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”

— William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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"Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly."

—Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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"The curves of your lips rewrite history."

—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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"A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."

—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me."

—W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One"

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"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."

—Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

seribulan

“What makes Iago evil? some people ask. I never ask.”
—Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

seribulan

Ego is your Enemy" by Ryan Holdings

"Those who have subdued their ego understand that is doesn't degrade you when other treats you poorly; it degrades them. @chandrahusin

chandrahusin

seribulan replied at 30-1-2018 01:59 PM
Ego is your Enemy" by Ryan Holdings

"Those who have subdued their ego understand that is doesn't  ...

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WhiskeyScotch

“God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.”

― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

WhiskeyScotch

“Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.”

― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

WhiskeyScotch

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

WhiskeyScotch

“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.”

― Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

WhiskeyScotch

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”

― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

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“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”

― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer