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| 4cdbab6 | You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've be.. | Keith Richards | ||
| 85e2056 | They'd been played. By a ! | Jude Watson | ||
| 9b1b724 | Listen!" "Jonah!" Amy breathed." | Jude Watson | ||
| 692ddb1 | If we accept that there will always be sides, it's a nontrivial to-do list item to always be on the side of angels. Distrust essentialism. Keep in mind that what seems like rationality is often just rationalization, playing catch-up with subterranean forces that we never suspect. Focus on the larger, shared goals. Practice perspective taking. Individuate, individuate, individuate. Recall the historical lessons of how often the truly maligna.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| a8e80f5 | Why should people in one part of the globe have developed collectivist cultures, while others went individualist? The United States is the individualism poster child for at least two reasons. First there's immigration. Currently, 12 percent of Americans are immigrants, another 12 percent are children of immigrants, and everyone else except for the 0.9 percent pure Native Americans descend from people who emigrated within the last five hundr.. | individualism | Robert M. Sapolsky | |
| b74a0a3 | In other words, the default state is to trust, and what the amygdala does is learn vigilance and distrust. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| d513cca | Here I want to stress that perception of losing one's mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to the significance of symptoms such as hearing voices, losing temporal and spatial orientation, and sensing that one is being followed, and that many of the most spectacular and convincing of these symptoms in some instances psychiatrically signify merely a temporary emotional upset in a stressful situation, howev.. | madness mental-health-stigma mental-hospital stereotypes stigma stigmatization stigmatized | Erving Goffman | |
| d9481e6 | We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily have joined in proclaiming its death. A substantial number of Americans who believe they worship God actually worship three major literary characters: the Yahweh of the J Writer (earliest author of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers), the Jesus of the Gospel of Mark, and Allah of the Koran. | Harold Bloom | ||
| ab9b1ef | Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| be73540 | Think about every single person who has ever harmed you, cheated you, defrauded you, or said unkind things about you. Your experience of them is nothing more than a thought that you carry around with you. These thoughts of resentment, anger, and hatred represent slow, debilitating energies that will disempower you. If you could release them, you would know more peace. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 32e1337 | If you follow the herd, you'll end up stepping in shit. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 92ff4fc | Flowers said, "I got two bottles of water in the car." "Get them. And get your gun," Lucas said. "The gun? You think?" "No. I just like to see you wearing the fuckin' gun for a change," Lucas said. "C'mon, let's get moving." | John Sandford | ||
| 73fd1c1 | Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed. | John Sandford | ||
| ee86298 | The thing about Botox is that when you've had too much, you then have to fake reactions just to look human--and it's impossible to distinguish real fake reactions from fake fake reactions. | humor | John Sandford | |
| 5b79365 | You really loved her?' 'I would have given my life.' 'Would you have taken it?' 'No, child,' he said. 'That is not ours to do. | love time | Mitch Albom | |
| be8eae0 | But love takes many forms, and it is not the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0cbaa49 | We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." And facing death changes that? "Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials." | mitch-albom | Mitch Albom | |
| b509973 | Before you measure the years, you measure the days. And before the days, you measure the moon. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b9ef744 | Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared their meager food and always offered it to him first, even though he insisted she eat before he did. THey leaned on each other at sunsets. Holding her as they slept felt like his last connection to humanity. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 798ee34 | This time was different. The tools of this era--phones, computers--enabled people to move at a blurring pace. Yet despite all they accomplished, they were never at peace. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 8aa9396 | Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely--but eventually be able to say, " All right, that was my moment of loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them all." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 5413509 | What in life can love not penetrate? Mabel Hubbard, deaf since childhood, gave Alexander Bell a piano as a wedding gift and asked that he play it for her every day, as if his music could pierce her silence. Decades later, at Bell's deathbed, it was his wife who made the sounds, saying the words, "Don't leave me," while he, no longer able to talk, used sign language to answer, No." | Mitch Albom | ||
| afa524f | Music is in the connection of human souls, speaking a language that needs no words. Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. Frankie's | Mitch Albom | ||
| e1d6631 | heaven is always and forever around us, and no soul remembered is ever really gone. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 8a247cf | Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 45b8b0d | I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 6892f26 | Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 231b896 | What is false about hope? | faith hope | Mitch Albom | |
| 59d6f41 | But what if someone from another faith won't recognize yours? Or wants you dead for it? "That is not faith. That is hate." He sighed. "And if you ask me, God sits up there and cries when that happens." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 21c03b9 | Man invents nothing God did not create first. | man | Mitch Albom | |
| d80b19f | How can I be envious of where you are when I've been there myself? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7c50a7d | fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is 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. Sometimes when you sacr.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 68522d3 | Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was. | new-years-eve | Mitch Albom | |
| cda81a3 | What's time between a mother and her daughter?Never too much, never enough. | Mitch Albom | ||
| cc76dce | Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 88db5c3 | 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. That's the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 28ed906 | knt tsh`r b'nh khwy@ tmman , mthl Syny@ lm ybq fyh sw~ ftt mm kn qlb Hlw~ bdy`an | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 2b52c85 | When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same? | Laura Esquivel | ||
| 2e8fe05 | One show, I did a benefit for a feminist organziation....So it's all feminsts. Gloria Steinem is sitting right up front. I walked out and said, "Look here, I can't stay around here too long with you broads because I gotta get home and cook my man a nice hot dinner. Plus, he likes his blow job by nine forty-five." I though it was funny. They didn't. They didn't find anything funny. I thought, Oh Lord, I made these women mad. I stepped over t.. | Wanda Sykes | ||
| 70e73c5 | Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed Ashcroft, I went out and got me four abortions. I stocked up. The doctor was like, 'Listen, you're not pregnant.' I said, 'Hey, just shut up and do your job. I'm exercising my right while I can, dammit. | feminism humor | Wanda Sykes | |
| 29b8f1c | What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions. | Kathryn Lasky | ||
| 122bfc2 | Many waters cannot quench love: the anthem's setting remained in her ears, repeating itself; a tune so powerful that it might gird one against the disappointments of life, rather than make one aware that our attempts to subdue the pain of unrequited love - of impossible love, of love that we are best to put away and not to think about - tended not to work, and only made the wounds of love more painful. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 3eb40db | Send that," he told her. "Sign it, et cetera. Work the sentences, if you wish, so that they will mean something." As she started from the office he added, "Or so that they mean nothing. Whichever you prefer." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e3885b7 | Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought. | creation | Philip K. Dick |