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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dfe845f | Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| b625a2c | Really? If I could hate my trainer? That would be ideal. I'd prefer to despise this person with the fire of ten thousand suns. So when I walk - nay, crawl - out of here at the end of my workouts, I want to lull myself to sleep by picturing my very talented and inspirational trainer getting hit by a bus. A bus that I am driving. | weight-loss | Jen Lancaster | |
| 8242e88 | I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| ad1241d | Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change. | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| d58e79b | TO EVERY THING there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| c6b6db5 | Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and temporary, separation from body and breath. His superconscious state is a freedom from the delusion that "existence" depends on body and breath. God lives without breath; the soul made in his image becomes conscious of itself, for the first time, only during the breathless state." | sleep soul | Paramahansa Yogananda | |
| bf4b060 | Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| ef3356e | If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| ecfaa7c | Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 9df7f29 | There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will." ( )" | salvation self-determination sin | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| f7bd407 | emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 129a282 | Leadership is not domination, but the art of persuading people to work toward a common goal. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 6729496 | Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own." | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 324c345 | Man's world is manifold, and his attitudes are manifold. What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them. They like to be told that there are two worlds and two ways. This is comforting because it is so tidy. Almost always one way turns out to be common and the other is celebrated as superior. Those who tell of two ways and praise one are recognised as pr.. | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| 65e0bd8 | I might have been a little mesmerized for a moment as I took in the sight of her shapely backside. It was incredible. I just wanted to spank it and bite it and worship it and completely fucking defile it. | Penny Reid | ||
| d5d250c | Road trips can either suck monkey balls or, with the right person, they can be awesomesauce with cheesy fries. | Penny Reid | ||
| dfea42b | I didn't tell her, because I didn't think it would help, but all people are lost, to varying degrees. I suspected that it's only when we love others--through purpose, friendship, romance, or any combination thereof--that we become found. | friendship love | Penny Reid | |
| f418512 | Everything is temporary, Duane. This," he gestured to our surroundings, "this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and you hold on to it for as long as it lasts." | Penny Reid | ||
| 0c1578c | You're a siren who doesn't need to sing. | Penny Reid | ||
| 3734924 | Martin wasn't smiling, but his eyes were warm and interested. "Do you always talk like that?" "Like what? Like awesome?" "Yeah, like awesome." -- | Penny Reid | ||
| 4ed2d5c | A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 1f5152c | Your security and love of life don't depend on the presence of another, but only on yourself, your chosen work, and your developing identity. Then you can safely choose to enrich your life by marrying another person, and not, as e e cummings says, until. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| ea66fe2 | My name is Pride. I am a cheater. I cheat you of your God-given destiny . . . because you demand your own way. I cheat you of contentment . . . because you "deserve better than this." I cheat you of knowledge . . . because you already know it all. I cheat you of healing . . . because you're too full of me to forgive. I cheat you of holiness . . . because you refuse to admit when you're wrong. I cheat you of vision . . . because you'd rather.. | Beth Moore | ||
| ebd47e8 | God will put you in a position to wrestle with your identity and choose whom you believe: Him or you. | Beth Moore | ||
| 8930fb6 | To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me very often, but I hated it when it did. It was faulty wiring in the female body, tear ducts attached directly to the frustration meter. Trying to explain to men that no, I wasn't being manipulative, I just couldn't stop my eyes from leaking salt water, only added to the aggravation. | tears | C.E. Murphy | |
| 12a16c9 | Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking , and celebrating a reunion. ( ) | clichés | Umberto Eco | |
| 325afe0 | People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell | Vince Flynn | ||
| d367fb5 | Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 8bcb8a5 | Some of this story is completely true. And some of it isn't. Like truth, evil comes in all sorts of flavors. Some bitter. Some deceptively sweet. Sometimes it comes with a heavy price. While most people don't invite evil into their lives, the dirty little secret is that an invitation isn't necessary. Locked doors don't matter. Neither do fancy security systems. Evil is kind of amazing when you think about it. She knows how to get inside. | Gregg Olsen | ||
| 131bdf3 | Because it's all relative. You're pinned down in some filthy hellhole of a paddy, getting your ass delivered to kingdom come, but then for a few seconds everything goes quiet and you look up and see the sun and a few puffy white clouds, and the immense serenity flashes against your eyeballs - the whole world gets rearranged - and even though you're pinned down by a war you've never felt more at peace. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| a18474b | Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There is an appropriate and necessary difference in the balance of power between parents and young children, but in the best situations, there should be no power struggles by the time those children have become adults - just deep connection, trust, and respect between people who sincerely care about.. | abusive codependency control counseling disfunction enable enabling family-relationships manipulation power psychology | Tim Clinton | |
| 58de183 | it wasn't pretend, I wasn't in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It's the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossible, replacing the smaller version of reality that I wear like a bonnet, clutched tightly under my chin. | Miranda July | ||
| 92f0fe3 | A man will be known by his books. | William Martin | ||
| 7349d2b | We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other. | Esther Perel | ||
| 5549220 | Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other. | Esther Perel | ||
| d48be9d | The reality was that the United States in 2017 was tethered to the words and actions of an emotionally overwrought, mercurial and unpredictable leader. Members of his staff had joined to purposefully block some of what they believed were the president's most dangerous impulses. It was a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world. | mercurial united-states | Bob Woodward | |
| 0f560fe | Nothing ever happens to me. | Mary Stewart | ||
| 47b0407 | Monica looked even more confused. Nobody ever turned down being part of the queenbee's inner circle. After that second of vulnerability, though, her face hardened. "Don't diss me,Danvers. I'm warning you." "I'm not dissing you." Claire sighed. "I'm ignoring you. There's a difference. Dissing you implies I think you're actually important." | Rachel Caine | ||
| f7aceec | I can always stuff you back in the bottle and shove a tampon in the top instead of a stopper, and all the other Djinn will point and laugh-" | Rachel Caine | ||
| 04fda83 | I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane) | Rachel Caine | ||
| 0c1788a | One should never create tension between one's footwear. | Rachel Caine | ||
| db688a4 | Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness. | loss | Rachel Caine | |
| 665fc83 | Nothing is mightier than our why, nothing stands above it, because in the end there is a why to which no answer is possible. In fact, from why to why, from one step to the next, you get to the end of things. And it is only by travelling from one why to the next, as far as the why that is unanswerable, that man attains the level of the creative principle, facing the infinite, equal to the infinite maybe. So long as he can answer the why he g.. | questioning why | Eugène Ionesco | |
| 609dc56 | Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world. | walking | Rebecca Solnit |