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4ab94da It's important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life. belief compassion empathy experiences generosity humility inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring joy kindness life life-quotes living love mind motivation motivational optimism optimistic peace positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking thoughts Roy T. Bennett
70cba04 "STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there? climbing experiences finally life top writing Neil Strauss
af05817 "I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, "Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?" This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by the way, would often talk about his experience as a black man. (To which I should probably have responded, "Why not your experiences as a man or as a human being? Why a black man?")" -- blind experiences gender human-being oppression question silencing systems talking woman world Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
d87de50 You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense. challenges difficulty experiences feelings forgetting forgiveness memories mistakes regret Lois Lowry
4a61431 Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self. activated ancient bedrock brain busy cerebral-cortex deeper experiences gray-matter hearing journey language noisy reading self silence sound structures subcortical thought world Michael Finkel
3851b75 ...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do. challenges difficulty downfall experiences life pain reality Lois Lowry
0856dc4 The misery of other people is only an abstraction [...] something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence. experiences loneliness misery Nicole Krauss
abc4d93 Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted brain to take. Some of the parts must be sculpted at critical times. One cannot, after all, carve out toes unless he knows where the foot will go. We need tools to do some of the fine work. The tools are our childhood experiences. And I'm convinced that one of those experiences must be children's books. And they must be experienced within the early years of our long childhood. brains childhood children children-s-books children-s-lit children-s-literature development experiences life life-experiences literature reading E.L. Konigsburg
d6917e0 We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh. difficulty experiences feelings joy laughter problems Lois Lowry
fadf65f It was the helplessness that scared the both of us. difficulty dreadful experiences fear helpless hopeless trouble Lois Lowry
debc5e3 People wonder at the romantic lives of poets and artists, but they should rather wonder at their gift of expression. The occurrences which pass unnoticed in the life of the average man in the existence of a writer of talent are profoundly interesting. It is the man they happen to that makes their significance. authors experiences expression maugham poets w-somerset-maugham writer writing W. Somerset Maugham