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60c10bd What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you. inspiration life philosophy inspirational life-purpose non-12-step-program passage-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss perspective quotes Chris Prentiss
2af4090 Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present. perspective nostalgia Barbara W. Tuchman
5ac4574 Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl self-awareness identity cheryl the-first-bad-man perspective self perception Miranda July
6948b6e "We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country," Morrie sighed. "Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning tings is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-and have it repeated to us-over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is to fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore." reality perspective Mitch Albom
4b37f8f He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose. ill embarrass point-of-view perspective makeup Mitch Albom
9166150 The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate beneath the surface of things. Because something is recent, they think it is new; they mistake now the for originality. novelty perspective insight Warren W. Wiersbe
794f830 Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself. heritage perspective materialism popularity Barbara W. Tuchman
1cde592 By focusing on her career and taking a calculated approach to amassing power, Heidi violated our stereotypical expectations of women. Yet by behaving in the same manner, Howard lived up to our stereotypical expectations of men. The end result? Liked him, disliked her. stereotypes women work perspective Sheryl Sandberg
86f2213 After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear. time life urgency precious perspective funeral Mitch Albom
0427e96 "One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics." perspective Barbara W. Tuchman
ad9643d ..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.. which I figured was my natural fate. fate happy achieve death life perspective control thought Mitch Albom
5dc6bb7 "(Pagina 45) "A enfermaria zumbe da maneira como ouvi uma fabrica de tecido zumbir uma vez, quando o time de futebol jogou com a escola secundaria na California. Depois de uma boa temporada, s promotores da cidade estavam tao orgulhosos e exaltados que pagavam para que fossemos de aviao ate a California para disputar um campeonato de escolas secundarias com o time de la. Quando chegamos a cidade tivemos de visitar um industria local qualquer. Nosso treinador era um daqueles dados a convencer as pessoas de que o atletismo era educativo por causa do aprendizado proporcionado pelas viagens, e em todas as viagens que faziamos ele carregava com o time para visitar fabricas de laticinios, fazendas de plantacao de beterraba e fabricas de conservas, antes do jogo . Na California foi uma fabrica de tecido. Quando entramos na fabrica, a maior parte do time deu uma olhada rapida e saiu para ir sentar-se no onibus e jogar poquer em cima das malas, mas eu fiquei la dentro numa canto, fora do caminho das mocas negras que corriam de um lado para o outro entre as fileiras de maquinas. A fabrica me colocou numa especie de sonho, todos aqueles zumbidos e estalos a chocalhar de gente e de maquinas sacudindo-se em espasmos regulares. Foi por isso que eu fiquei quando todos os outros se foram, por isso e porque aquilo me lembrou de alguma forma os homens da tribo que haviam deixado a aldeia nos ultimos dias para ir trabalhar na trituradora de pedras para a represa. O padrao frenetico, os rostos hipnotizados pela rotina... eu queria ir com o time, mas nao pude. Era de manha, no principio do inverno, e eu ainda usava a jaqueta que nos deram quando ganhamos o campeonato - uma jaqueta vermelha e verde com mangas de couro e um emblema com o formato de uma bola de futebol bordado nas costas, dizendo o que haviamos vencido - e ela estava fazendo com que uma porcao de mocas negras olhassem. Eu a tirei , mas elas continuaram olhando. Eu era muito maior naquela epoca. " (Pagina 46) "Uma das mocas afastou-se de sua maquina e olhou para um lado e para o outro das passagens entre as maquinas, para ver se o capataz estava por perto, depois veio ate onde eu estava. Perguntou se iamos jogar na escola secundaria naquela noite e me disse que tinha um irmao que jogava como zagueiro para eles. Falamos um pouco a respeito do futebol e coisas assim, e reparei como o rosto dela parecia indistinto, como se houvesse uma nevoa entre nos dois. Era a lanugem de algodao pairando no ar. Falei-lhe a respeito da lanugem. Ela revirou os olhos e cobriu a boca com a mao, para rir, quando eu lhe disse como era parecido com o olhar o seu rosto numa manha enevoada de caca ao pato. E ela disse : " Agora me diga para que e que voce quereria nesse bendito mundo estar sozinho comigo la fora, numa tocaia de pato ?" Disse-lhe que ela poderia tomar de conta da minha arma, e as mocas comecaram a rir com a boca escondida atras das maos na fabrica inteira. Eu tambem ri um pouco, vendo como havia parecido inteligente. Anda estavamos conversando e rindo quando ela agarrou meus pulsos e os apertou com as maos. Os tracos do seu rosto de repente se acentuaram num foco radioso; vi que ela estava aterrorizada por alguma coisa. - Leve-me - disse ela num murmurio - Leve-me mesmo garotao. Para fora desta fabrica aqui, para fora desta cidade, para fora desta vida. Me leva para uma tocaia de pato qualquer, num lugar qualquer . Num outro lugar qualquer. Hem garotao, hem ?" life rotina routine perspective insight Ken Kesey
4126cde "Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers. Why? Because there is no possibility of repeating the single, multi-millennium experiment that constant to the past. The sample size of human history is one." perspective Niall Ferguson
841acd8 I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead. perspective Niall Ferguson
f898017 I noticed that he was an Irish setter, rust-colored. He noticed that I was a Welsh sculptor, buff-colored (no, really, what did he notice? how does he think?) I reflected that he was probably a nice dog from a good home (bourgeois dog) but with certain unfortunate habits like jumping on people from high windows (rationalization: he is a member of the television generation and thus -) perspective Donald Barthelme
0782043 "A man makes choices," Tal said. "True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered." choices-and-consequences perspective Raymond E. Feist
f559cea "Now he wondered what use it would be. For Kaspar's death would not bring back his father, Elk's Call at Dawn, or his mother, Whisper of the Night Wind. His brother, Hand of the Sun, and his little sister Miliana would remain dead. The only time he would hear the voice of his grandfather, Laughter in His Eyes, would be in his memory. Nothing would change. No farmer outside Krondor would suddenly stand up in wonder and say, "A wrong has been righted." No boot-maker in Roldem would look up from his bench and say, "A people has been avenged." revenge perspective Raymond E. Feist
36126fc He knew there was only a slight difference between an armed guard and an escort, but sometimes that difference separated the honored and the condemned. perspective Raymond E. Feist
84611ec "Have you ever wronged a man . . . just to do him harm? Or have you always had a reason?' Kaspar answered quickly. 'There was always a reason.' 'There you have it,' said Samas as he sat down. He motioned for Kaspar to fetch over a cup of water for him. 'You would never look at yourself as "evil" no matter what the other fellow thought of what you did. It's in our nature. And that's the great secret of evil. It is never viewed as evil by those who perpetrate the evil." nature-of-evil perspective Raymond E. Feist
d8d9418 "History is written by victors," said Duko. "But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned." victors perspective Raymond E. Feist
f174fcb "My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history." history perspective Raymond E. Feist
c215dd7 In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Passos perspective George F. Will
a17e657 It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news. optimism perspective perception Thomas L. Friedman
0ac2187 "Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou" leadership heritage perspective legacy popularity Mark Kurlansky
366fffa their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine, fear perspective emotions Robert A. Caro
aa62246 The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome. continuity perspective Robert J. Allison
28650e9 Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see? truth perspective desire Kate Elliott
aa62839 I understood that I was being shown the future: shards of what would come to be. Often, I cried out for the pain of it. But other times, I was comforted, because I saw, for an instant, the pattern of the whole. prayer sovereignty-of-god word-of-god perspective prophecy Geraldine Brooks
a8cd439 Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. philosophy perspective Rebecca Goldstein
3571ee5 Her logic was a combination of half-truths and cliches, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel. subway perspective new-york John Kennedy Toole
0e8a752 The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it. idealism perspective John Howard Griffin
832eb08 He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest. optimism perspective John Howard Griffin
5a50a6e In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the plate and took action to help a crippled population. All credit for the establishment of their wonderful, life-saving group goes to them and to those who came after them who have continued the tradition. However, there are hundreds of millions of people who still need help who are not among the estimated two or three million who attend twelve-step meetings. change philosophy addiction-cure addiction-therapy addiction-treatment addiction-treatment-center alcohol-abuse chris-prentiss drug-abuse twelve-step twelve-steps perspective change-the-world Chris Prentiss
a16f86e Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot. perspective Barbara Kingsolver
52396c5 Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world. perspective persuasion Alister E. McGrath
d75a155 There are real problems, not just money and power, in my own lands. perspective power Barbara Hambly
d02e880 All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy. perspective hypocrisy John Howard Griffin
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