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#1

“Are we always to be wanting
what isn't:
the greenest grass
accord and principle
motherhood and career?
Yet our age lies to us
like an asp,
whispering. "Both.”
― Barbara Crooker

tags: motherhood

2 likes

#2

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

tags: barriers, challenges, failure, failures, inspirational, perseverance

2991 likes

#3

“As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.”
― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

tags: humorous

54 likes

#4

“Sometimes I think God is like weather--you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do wit you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it.”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

19 likes

#5

“Jason's father, Reg, always said "Love what God loves and hate what God hates," but more often than not I had the impression that he really meant "Love what Reg loves and hate what Reg hates.”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

3 likes

#6

“I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.”
― Elizabeth Peters, A River in the Sky

tags: humorous

11 likes

#7

“There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.”
― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

tags: humorous

37 likes

#8

“A typical race morning usually starts out looking like a scene from a zombie movie: individuals or pairs of people walking down a deserted street, all headed in the same direction.... Inevitably, regardless of the weather, U2's "Beautiful Day" streams out of loudspeakers.”
― Sarah Bowen Shea, Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity

tags: humor, running

7 likes

#9

“And then there's the perverse joy of subtly working in references to marathon training in daily life, say at the post office or while waiting outside my first-graders' classrooms at the end of the school day.”
― Sarah Bowen Shea, Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity

tags: humor, marathon, running

2 likes

#10

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

tags: amelia-peabody, men, women

3777 likes

#11

“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Mummy Case

tags: marriage

223 likes

#12

“Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point”
― elizabeth peters, The Curse of the Pharaohs

tags: amelia-peabody

87 likes

#13

“I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

tags: amelia-peabody, humor, women

65 likes

#14

“Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body...”
― Elizabeth Peters, Lion in the Valley

tags: abdullah

50 likes

#15

“He's got this thing about Canada. He says it's like America only with health care and no guns, and you can live up to your potential there and not have to worry about what society thinks or about getting sick or getting shot.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

tags: canada, humor

28 likes

#16

“I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.”
― Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

16 likes

#17

“It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.”
― Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

tags: community, provincialism

2 likes

#18

“I went because the nights are numbered and I do not know the count.”
― Karen Maezen Miller, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life

tags: inspirational, life-lessons, parenting

1 likes

#19

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

11490 likes

#20

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

5174 likes

#21

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: activism, service

1966 likes

#22

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

tags: activism, truth

2308 likes

#23

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, advocacy, protest

1630 likes

#24

“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
― Barack Obama

tags: activism, commitment, politics

1048 likes

#25

“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: activism

774 likes

#26

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

tags: activism, justice, public-defense

519 likes

#28

“By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

tags: grace, judging

382 likes

#29

“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

tags: christianity

344 likes

#30

“Reality is an easy commodity in the Front Range. There's weather, and there are animals that are thinking about eating you, and there's all that beauty. It sort of whomps you on the head. It's strange that we use the word "unreal" to describe beauty-it's my experience that beauty drags us by the hair into the real.”
― Claire Dederer, Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses

7 likes

#31

“No matter where you go in the world, a German will have beaten you there, clad in a sweaty black T-shirt and a smug expression.”
― Claire Dederer, Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses

3 likes

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