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| e6441ea | Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel unsure around you. We were.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 569d0f7 | When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness--the feeling that we are enough just as we are and that we are worthy of love and belonging. | Brené Brown | ||
| e64178a | What do we call a story that's based on limited real data and imagined data and blended into a coherent, emotionally satisfying version of reality? A conspiracy theory. | Brené Brown | ||
| a547077 | The important thing to know about worthiness is that it doesn't have prerequisites. Most of us, on the other hand, have a long list of worthiness prerequisites--qualifiers that we've inherited, learned, and unknowingly picked up along the way. Most of these prerequisites fall in the categories of accomplishments, acquisitions, and external acceptance. It's the if/when problem ("I'll be worthy when ..." or "I'll be worthy if ...")." | Brené Brown | ||
| a141325 | The connection that we forge by judging and mocking others is not real connection, | Brené Brown | ||
| b4887ba | Self-kindness: Being warm and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate, rather than ignoring our pain or flagellating ourselves with self-criticism. Common humanity: Common humanity recognizes that suffering and feelings of personal inadequacy are part of the shared human experience--something we all go through rather than something that happens to "me" alone. Mindfulness: Taking a balanced approach to negativ.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 0fa5822 | When we engage in dehumanizing rhetoric or promote dehumanizing images, we diminish our own humanity in the process. When we reduce Muslim people to terrorists or Mexicans to "illegals" or police officers to pigs, it says nothing at all about the people we're attacking. It does, however, say volumes about who we are and the degree to which we're operating in our integrity." | Brené Brown | ||
| 2c697c6 | It's helpful to keep in mind Alberto Brandolini's Bullshit Asymmetry Principle or what's sometimes known as Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." | Brené Brown | ||
| 2999abd | In his book The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk, a professor of psychiatry at Boston University, explores how trauma literally reshapes the brain and the body, and how interventions that enable adults to reclaim their lives must address the relationship between our emotional well-being and our bodies. | Brené Brown | ||
| ee20a56 | They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no.. | justice law punishment | Jonathan Swift | |
| 8134cfd | The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them. | Monique Truong | ||
| 0aad5ce | The intense desire to talk with someone, sharp as any pain; this was what people meant when they talked about love. Or rather; this was what Sax would acknowledge to be love. Just the super-heightened desire to share thoughts. That alone. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| d462f3b | So, you know, Fermi's paradox has its answer, which is this: by the time life gets smart enough to leave its planet, it's too smart to want to go. Because it knows it won't work. So it stays home. It enjoys its home. As why wouldn't you? It doesn't even bother to try to contact anyone else. Why would you? You'll never hear back. So that's my answer to the paradox. You can call it Euan's Answer. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 32c7be7 | It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 4201d00 | The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128 | missunderstanding truth | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 37ebb0c | That's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 8608785 | How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love s illusion. And yet--on the other hand--what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt... | David Guterson | ||
| cbbc919 | He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time. | David Guterson | ||
| 6b8eab8 | Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. | state-of-being | Douglas Coupland | |
| 173f5c9 | He felt intact but worthless, like a chocolate rabbit selling for 75 percent off the month after Easter. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 291d976 | This place is like some cosmic dream crusher. All you can get out of a place like this is a creepy little tingle that lets you know your kid is never going to be anything more than a customer-that the whole world is being turned into casino. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d4b743b | I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. | fun priests | Howard Zinn | |
| 990b4e7 | Welcome to the court, pup | kingdom-of-ash rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 2c81606 | It would be won by a woman willing to gamble with an entire island full of people to get what she needed to save them all. A woman whose friends were equally willing to play along, to rip their souls to shreds if it meant saving the greater population. They knew the weight of the lives panicking around them if they gambled wrong. Aelin perhaps more than anyone else. Aelin and Rolfe stalked through the open tavern doorway and into the street.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 4649ec3 | And he had the nerve once his powers were back to shove me into a cage. The nerve to say I was no longer useful; I was to be cloistered for his peace of mind. He'd given me everything I needed to become myself, to feel safe, and when he got what he wanted--when he got his power back, his lands back ... he stopped trying. He was still good, still Tamlin, but he was just ... wrong. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| ca5caac | This had better be important." "Perhaps if you hadn't been reading all night, you wouldn't be so exhausted," snapped the young man seated across from her." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| babe926 | I twisted, my loose clothes sliding over my shoulders, my waist. I hadn't realized how much weight I'd lost. Despite things creeping back to normal. I said, "Don't you have other things to deal with?" "Of course I do," he said, shrugging. "I have so many things to deal with that I'm sometimes tempted to unleash my power across the world and wipe the board clean. Just to buy me some damned peace." He grinned, bowing at the waist. Even that c.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 499553c | We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 7d73b22 | What about my kiss? | acotar tamlin | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 8a1de0d | Rhys squeezed my hand as he looked to me at last. "And if I had not met my mate ..." His words failed him as silver lined his eyes. He said down the bond, *I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all of the time we were allowed to have ... The wait was worth it.*" | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 763c6f0 | You know how quickly this can end, Aelin," Maeve said. Aelin kept her eyes shut. "Tell me where you hid the Wyrdkeys, swear the blood oath ... The order doesn't matter, I suppose." Aelin opened her eyes. Lifted her bound hands before her. And gave Maeve an obscene gesture, as filthy and foul as she'd ever made." -- | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c18f037 | Honestly, Dorian had no idea how Aelin had survived months of this--let alone fallen in love with the warrior while she did. Though he supposed both the queen and prince possessed a sadistic streak that made them compatible. Some | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| ea231b5 | Helion let out a dark laugh. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 51e60f0 | No--she wasn't human at all. Celaena was Fae. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 1e690e8 | It was foolish to even start down this road, when every other man she'd let in had left some wound, in one way or another, accidentally or not. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 56753eb | You do what you love, what you need. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 593f076 | And who, exactly, told you this?" Rhys said with a lift of the brow, not showing one ounce of ire, of surprise. Steps sounded. But we all went for our weapons as Jurian strolled into the guardhouse and said, "I did." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 877fb3a | Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things? How do they find it acceptable? "We'll make them pay for it in the end." Celaena grasped Ansel's hand. The girl squeezed back. "We'll see to it that they pay." "Yes." Ansel shifted her gaze back to the stars. "Yes, we will." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 3572b19 | Afraid she and I had a summer romance?" That insufferable grin was still there. "I hope you did. I certainly enjoyed myself this summer." The smile faded at that. "What do you mean?" She brushed an invisible fleck of dust off her red gown. "Let's just say that the son of the Mute Master was far more welcoming than the other Silent Assassins." | sam | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d1e3cb1 | The room behind me was dark. 'Thief,' intoned a lovely voice in the blackness... 'You have seen my twin,' the Weaver hissed softly-- with a hint of wonder. 'I smell him on you.'... Somewhere deep in the room, I FELT her move. Felt her stand. And take a step toward me. 'What are you,' the Weaver breathed. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| feff85a | down to the river itself, the water so smooth that the stars and lights blended on its dark surface like a living ribbon of eternity. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 210c141 | Maps had always interested her; there was something bewitching in knowing one's precise location in relation to others on the earth. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8b92292 | And when she grasped the dagger, its weight lighter than she remembered, Rowan looked into her eyes, into the very core of her, and said, "Fireheart." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 46e8ff8 | I didn't want you to feel inadequate, | Sarah J. Maas |