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| 2c3e8ea | When we're kind to ourselves, we create a reservoir of compassion that we can extend to others. Our children learn how to be self-compassionate by watching us, and the people around us feel free to be authentic and connected. | Brené Brown | ||
| 17cefd2 | There's a great quote from the movie Almost Famous that says, "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." | Brené Brown | ||
| 06fa93a | the women and men I interviewed who had the strongest sense of true belonging stayed zoomed in. They didn't ignore what was happening in the world, nor did they stop advocating for their beliefs. They did, however, commit to assessing their lives and forming their opinions of people based on their actual, in-person experiences. They worked against the trap that most of us have fallen into: I can hate large groups of strangers, because the m.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 7baa00c | We either own our stories (even the messy ones), or we stand outside of them--denying our vulnerabilities and imperfections, orphaning the parts of us that don't fit in with who/what we think we're supposed to be, and hustling for other people's approval of our worthiness. Perfectionism is exhausting because hustling is exhausting. It's a never-ending performance. | Brené Brown | ||
| 09e1639 | Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle. | Brené Brown | ||
| 525492e | When we pretend that we can avoid vulnerability we engage in behaviors that are often inconsistent with who we want to be. | Brené Brown | ||
| 77e2418 | Show me a woman who can hold space for a man in real fear and vulnerability, and I'll show you a woman who's learned to embrace her own vulnerability and who doesn't derive her power or status from that man. Show me a man who can sit with a woman in real fear and vulnerability and just hear her struggle without trying to fix it or give advice, and I'll show you a man who's comfortable with his own vulnerability and doesn't derive his power .. | Brené Brown | ||
| 9d5aff8 | In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| bca3ee2 | We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. | dreams knowledge learning | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 50c383c | All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived. | change inspirational | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 9f7091b | But lies were what people wanted; that was politics. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| defb35b | Here they were, on the only planetary surface on which you could walk freely, naked to the wind and the sun, and when they had a choice, they sat in boxes and stared at littler boxes, just as if they had no choice-as if they were in a space station- | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 2859d90 | The rain fell with such fervor that the world disappeared. | David Guterson | ||
| 40ef146 | The most beautiful highway in the world | Dave Pelzer | ||
| 7019fda | The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly high because of the beauty, and the inside of my head tickled. I wondered if this is how artists go through life, with all of its sensations tickling their craniums like a peacock feather.. | beauty hey-nostradamus high life nature | Douglas Coupland | |
| e94394a | Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't even know the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its.. | music | Douglas Coupland | |
| 8af346d | What one moment from you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway?'' There is silence. Tobias doesn't get her point, and frankly, neither do I. She continues: ''Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 7e82e23 | Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound--people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and h.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| b187a2b | You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning beds of library photocopiers. You should be scraping the truth onto old auto parts and throwing them off bridges so that people digging in the mud in a million years will question the world, too. You should be carving eyeballs into tire treads and onto shoe soles so that your every trail speaks of thinking and faith and belief. You should be d.. | truth urgency | Douglas Coupland | |
| 1226da3 | If somebody wants to run for office, they had better to explain why they want to run for office. Wanting to be a candidate seems, in itself, reason for exclusion. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 9b21d5b | Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a sequence of events - a story - and when we can't figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| afb60a2 | But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart. | Julie Powell | ||
| 8d40a7c | Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would. | Julie Powell | ||
| 0564fdf | The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. | blame recovery responsibility suffering | R. Scott Bakker | |
| 5113127 | The first love is the difficult love. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 680fbcf | You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 3b9e28f | You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one. | battle kali perspective | Roger Zelazny | |
| 36e6c69 | If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs. | life love pain | Roger Zelazny | |
| 5971360 | Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity." | creativity shock | Edward Gibbon | |
| 424df79 | If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 3092635 | Your place in life you can always change, whether you have the gift or not. But you cannot change what the gods have made you. The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| e2ecf12 | Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?" Alanna didn't look up. "No." , she excused her lie mentally. " | bully lying ralon strange | Tamora Pierce | |
| fcc0d0d | This is what I've come to," he said mournfully. "Following little birdies" | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 40a9705 | I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it's just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 9d30b8e | I wanted to have something good to remember about today," she replied quietly. "Something that wasn't petty and mean. Sometimes you have to provide such moments yourself." | nice-moments winnamine | Tamora Pierce | |
| 63a1a14 | Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 97b5ae9 | We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too. | Michael Pollan | ||
| e6fb0e0 | In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree -- the act of leaving parts of the garden untended, and calling attention to its margins, seems to undermine any pretense to perfect power or wisdom on the part of the gardener. The margins of our gardens can be tropes too, but figures of irony rather than transcendence -- antido.. | gardening hubris nature wild wilderness | Michael Pollan | |
| ea8a364 | The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought about the rhythms of cooking, one of which involves destroying the order of the things we bring from nature into our kitchens, only to then create from them a new order. We butcher, grind, chop, grate, mince, and liquefy raw ingredients, breaking down formerly living things so that we might recombine them in new, mo.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| ff2ecec | Mowing the lawn, I felt like I was battling the earth rather than working it; each week it sent forth a green army and each week I beat it back with my infernal machine. Unlike every other plant in my garden, the grasses were anonymous, massified, deprived of any change or development whatsoever, not to mention any semblance of self-determination. I ruled a totalitarian landscape. Hot monotonous hours behind the mower gave rise to existent.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| e081ef3 | In my travels on the surface, I once met a man who wore his religious beliefs like a badge of honor upon the sleeves of his tunic. "I am a Gondsman!" he proudly told me as we sat beside eachother at a tavern bar, I sipping my wind, and he, I fear, partaking a bit too much of his more potent drink. He went on to explain the premise of his religion, his very reason for being, that all things were based in science, in mechanics and in discover.. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 638dc87 | Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space. | information-design | Edward R. Tufte | |
| d65a7f2 | If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: To readers who do not care for such things, this lettering tells them: | marketing | Paul Collins | |
| a345caa | I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found c.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |