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| f70aa5f | So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on the palms of my bare feet. This kind of thing -- a spontaneous handstand--isn't something a disembodied cool blue soul can do, but a human being can do it. We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy o.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 857fd97 | Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other. We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect--the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| eed63d9 | Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically and sure-handedly through predictable stages of therapy to a foreknown goal, such is rarely the case: instead, as these stories bear witness, therapists frequently wobble, improvise, and grope for direction. The powerful temptation to achieve certainty through embracing an ideological.. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 257dcb4 | It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. | feminism | Simone de Beauvoir | |
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| 2e59344 | I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don't like. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 40c6c2d | If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 74a44ec | As-tu deja ete amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnerable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et le coeur en grand et du coup, n'importe qui peut venir te bousiller de l'interieur. On se forge des defenses, on se fabrique une belle armure pour que rien ne puisse jamais nous atteindre, et voila qu'un imbecile, pas bien different des autres s'immisce dans notre imbecile de vie... On lui offre un morceau de soi alors que l'autre n'a rien demande... | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6a8d7c8 | He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again. | love | Neil Gaiman | |
| 08f6747 | Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things. | memory myth personal | Neil Gaiman | |
| 23482ac | There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and lights on buildings and on bridges which looked like earthbound stars and they glimmered repeated as they were reflected with the city in the night water of the Thames. It's fairyland thought Richard. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| dd7fcbe | Change. Change. Change. Change ... change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do. | delirium gaiman postmodernism | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1f63d44 | Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We could call him Marcus." Josiah Worthington said, "He looks more like my head gardener, Stebbins. Not that I'm suggesting Stebbins as a name. The man drank like a fish." "He looks like my nephew Harry," said Mother Slaughter... "He looks like nobody but himself," said Mrs.Owens, firmly. "He looks like nobod.. | names | Neil Gaiman | |
| 02bff9b | We don't do spells," she said. She sounded a little disappointed to admit it. "We'll do recipes sometimes. But no spells or cantrips. Gran doesn't hold with none of that. She says it's ." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b8c81ca | Somehow, this was one oddity too many. He could accept "Mind the Gap" and the Earl's Court, and even the strange library. But damn it, like all Londoners, he knew his Tube map, and this was going too far. "There isn't a British Museum Station," said Richard, firmly." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3354a4d | I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921 | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5704d85 | Too soon, the sun will rise. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fd2e068 | That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d652716 | It was sort of like , thought Fat Charlie, an hour later; in fact, if the witches in had been four little old ladies and if, instead of stirring cauldrons and intoning dread incantations, they had just welcomed Macbeth in and fed him turkey and rice and peas spread out on white china plates on a red-and-white patterned plastic tablecloth -- not to mention sweet potato pudding and spice cabbage -- and encouraged him to take second helping.. | macbeth | Neil Gaiman | |
| 964b47e | The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 585923c | Fox was here first, and his brother was the wolf. Fox said, people will live forever. If they die they will not die for long. Wolf said, no, people will die, people must die, all things that live must die, or they will spread and cover the world, and eat all the salmon and the caribou and the buffalo, eat all the squash and all the corn. Now one day Wolf died, and he said to the fox, quick, bring me back to life. And Fox said, No, the dead .. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c93cf8f | Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 25c69c8 | But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat. | funny good-omens humour neil-gaiman terry-prachett | Terry Prachett talking about Neil Gaiman | |
| 58ccd09 | Are you scared?' asked Mr. Ibis. 'Not really.' 'Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2691329 | The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people. | Peter Straub | ||
| 8cfecfe | There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, " " Or worse, feeling interrupted and tired, "Wha--?" | Lorrie Moore | ||
| c95dac4 | the truly humble cannot be humbled. They are immune to humiliation. They have nothing to defend. There is no vulnerability and, therefore, the truly humble do not experience critical attacks by others. Instead, a truly humble person sees the critical verbalization by another person as merely a statement of the other person's inner problems. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| a1ae309 | How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?" "I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language," Dan said. "Like ow. Or- you're stepping on my foot." "That's universal?" "No, you're stepping on my foot. Ow." Amy moved." | dan-cahill | Jude Watson | |
| 27536a2 | Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing. | complaining control happiness | Wayne W. Dyer | |
| 2ba95d4 | Most people don't have the patience to absorb their minds in the fine points and minutiae that are intrinsically part of their work. They are in a hurry to create effects and make a splash; they think in large brush strokes. Their work inevitably reveals their lack of attention to detail - it doesn't connect deeply with the public, and it feels flimsy. | results rushed-work | Robert Greene | |
| e74cbdd | The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path--any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation. | Robert Greene | ||
| cb121be | if no resistances or obstacles face you, you must create them. No seduction can proceed without them. | Robert Greene | ||
| eededd0 | When weak, act strong. | war | Rick Riordan | |
| baa241d | You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. | gentleness love material-things money power substitute tenderness | Mitch Albom | |
| d9bdd42 | You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father... Rabazzo didn't die for nothing, you know. He sacrificed for his country, and his family knew it, and his kid brother went on to become a good soldier and a great man because he was.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 376eb37 | To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can't have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren't satisfied - before working some more. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 59d8faf | Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creatures endures. A fear of time running out. | Mitch Albom | ||
| c46b575 | We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 593d553 | Before you measure the years, you measure the days. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 681a3c7 | Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still--until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ede9914 | People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless. | Mitch Albom | ||
| c62a51a | The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 6863f18 | I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself. | humor self-awareness spirituality | Philip K. Dick | |
| f08608a | Matter is plastic in the face of Mind. | matter mind | Philip K. Dick |