Quotes of: Francis Keyword

The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her pointer – here and here, this is going to happen. Voodoo.

The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does no...

The Library at Night

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

The Library at Night

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

The Library at Night

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

The Library at Night

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

The Library at Night

-there was something in her, something that was...pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.

Let the Right One In

The fear to love reaches sometimes the depth of a panic, resembles sometimes the fear to die.

Of love and lust; on the psychoanalysis of romantic and sexual emotions; from the works of Theodor Reik

Francis Bacon has the most delicious last name ever, followed closely by Johnny Scrambledeggs. I make love like those two guys make breakfast out of family reunions.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't.

A Life of Erwin Schrödinger

Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another human being in a situation that virtually demanded unscripted, spontaneous conversation, and thus to risk total moral and emotional dissolution....

Leaving the Sea

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Lake Wobegon U.S.A.

Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

The Miles Between

I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral passion, the same complete trust in the imagination which is so difficult to sustain through the course of one's whole life.

Molly Fox's Birthday

Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world...

The Seeker: A Novel