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If it’s to be it’s up to me.
Speaker: unknownPosted: 27 Nov 2007 at 3:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Humans must not be allowed to notice that all great moralists are sent by the Enemy, not to inform men, but to remind them, to restate the primeval moral platitudes against our continual concealment of them. We make the Sophists: He raises up a Socrates to answer them.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They’re wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We now that crying isn’t a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 10:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s poker for people who fucking hate poker
Speaker: BlakeSource: sitting at booth at DIG talking about how people want to do it internallyPosted: 14 Nov 2012 at 12:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
IT’S FUCKING MATH
(Gryph almost just spit out coffee while saying I’d do it all in caps!)Speaker: IvanSource: In the hub while mad at Ted for eyeballing everythingPosted: 13 Nov 2012 at 2:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another.
Speaker: Robert Louis StevensonPosted: 10 Sep 2012 at 11:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.
Speaker: Lillian HellmanSource: bookPosted: 24 Feb 2012 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
Speaker: Tim HanselSource: twitter postPosted: 20 Nov 2011 at 6:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“There is but one quality necessary for the perfect understanding of character, one quality that, if man have it, he may dare to judge—that is, omniscience. Most people study character as a proofreader pores over a great poem: his ears are dulled to the majesty and music of the lines, his eyes are darkened to the magic imagination of the genius of the author; that proofreader is busy watching for an inverted comma, a misspacing, or a wrong font letter. He has an eye trained for the imperfections, the weaknesses. …
“We do not need to judge nearly so much as we think we do. This is the age of snap judgments. … [We need] the courage to say, ‘I don’t know. I am waiting further evidence. I must hear both sides of the question.’ It is this suspended judgment that is the supreme form of charity”
Speaker: William George JordanSource: “The Supreme Charity of the World,” The Kingship of Self-Control [n.d.], 27–30Posted: 27 Feb 2011 at 12:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some women are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out – your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of girls here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The Spirit of God speaking to the spirit of man has power to impart truth with greater effect and understanding than the truth can be imparted by personal contact even with heavenly beings. Through the Holy Ghost the truth is woven into the very fibre and sinews of the body so that it cannot be forgotten”
Speaker: President Joseph Fielding SmithSource: Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. [1954–56], 1:47–48Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realized, somehow, that through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 07 Oct 2009 at 7:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Cast out an honest friend, and you cast out
Your life, your dearest treasure…” CreonSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ce n’est pas parce que les choses sont difficiles que nous n’osons pas, c’est parce que nous n’osons pas qu’elles sont difficiles.
Speaker: SénèquePosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 4:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Speaker: Peter UstinovSource: http://www.google.com/igPosted: 06 Sep 2008 at 9:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most endeavors are like learning to speak a foreign language: to be correct 95% of the time requires six months of concentrated effort, whereas to be correct 98% of the time requires 20-30 years. Focus on great for a few things and good enough for the rest. Perfection is a good ideal and direction to have, but recognize it for what it is: an impossible destination.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget, what you must always remember, that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Experience has proved to me, time after time, the enormous value of arriving at a decision. It is the failure to arrive at a fixed purpose, the inability to stop going round and round in maddening circles, that drives men to nervous breakdowns and living hells. I find that fifty percent of my worries vanishes once I arrive at a clear, definite decision; and another forty percent usually vanishes once I start to carry out that decision.
Speaker: Galen LitchfieldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!