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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6ce2157 | Whatever people think of us is between them and God and not our concern. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| be8cf46 | It's All in Your Mind Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind. --Anonymous INTRODUCTION One of my favorite sayings.. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| cad0b90 | It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed. | friendship | Muriel Spark | |
| f991eb5 | So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn't nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. Dat's where Ah wuz's s'posed to be, but Ah couldn't recognize dat dark chile as me. So ah ast, 'where is me? Ah don't see me.' ... 'Aw, aw! Ah'm colored!' Den dey all laughed real hard. But before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like the rest. | segregation | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| bd38b25 | 'Course, talkin' don't amount tuh uh hill uh beans when yuh can't do nothin' else. And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat. It's uh known fact, Pheopby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh th.. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 244c708 | Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what is was. | life | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 488fae5 | There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. (NOT Maya Angelou, NOT I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 2108564 | Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| fb92cf8 | When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they.. | happiness truth | Anne Lamott | |
| a737436 | I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer--that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog. | god | Anne Lamott | |
| d8ca380 | It took me one more year to admit that I could no longer control my drinking. And finally on July 7, 1986, I quit, and let a bunch of sober alcoholics teach me how to get sober, and stay sober. God, they were such a pain in the ass. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 5df021e | I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 950124d | we all wanted this because let's face it, it's so inspiring and such a relief when people find a way to bear the unbearable, when you can organize things in such a way that a tiny miracle appears to have taken place and that love has once again turn out to be bigger than fear and death and blindness. | Anne Lamott | ||
| b0c3d73 | The truth is that your spirits don't rise until you get way down. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 2c52caf | Maybe what we say to each other is not so important after all, but just that we are alive together, and present for each other as best we can be. | Anne Lamott | ||
| df7e6a8 | When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8f814ba | In early sobriety I heard that if you have an idea after ten p.m., it is probably not a good idea--and this was before e-mail. | sobriety | Anne Lamott | |
| 39fb94b | Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant for you to hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean you want to vacation together. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f06352c | The way I see things, God loves you the same whether you're being elegant or not. It feels much better when you are, but even when you can't fake it, God still listens to your prayers. Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff. | Anne Lamott | ||
| aefd611 | During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkiness long enough to know what a Promised Land would be like, or, to put it another way, what it means to be saved--which, if we are to believe Jesus or Gandhi, specifically means to see everyone on earth as family. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 91f7a92 | As Anne Lamott said, "Expectations are resentments waiting to happen." We have the tendency to visualize an entire scenario or conversation or outcome, and when things don't go the way we'd imagined, disappointment can become resentment. This often happens when our expectations are based on outcomes we can't control, like what other people think, what they feel, or how they're going to react." | Brené Brown | ||
| 3a23037 | We live stitch by stitch, when we're lucky. If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. And maybe the stitching is crude, or it is unraveling, but if it were precise, we'd pretend that life was just fine and running like a Swiss watch. This is not helpful if on the inside our understanding is that life is more often a cuckoo clock with rusty gears. In the aftermath of loss, we do what we've alw.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 6c45a09 | I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place... | Anne Lamott | ||
| 49cb2d8 | I carry a secret sense of accomplishment around with me, like a radium pack implanted near my heart that now leaches a quiet sense of relief through my system. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 60aaacd | There is ecstasy in paying attention... Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world, of the human mind and heart, and can try to capture just that - the details, the nuance, what is. If you start to look around, you will start to see. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 1497616 | Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest prize of all. Do you want this, or do you want to be right? Well, can I get back to you on that? I | Anne Lamott | ||
| e2b0b2b | I saw a button pin once that said: "I'm not tense. I'm just very, very alert." | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3b8ffe4 | You have to be grateful whenever you get to someplace safe and okay, even if it turns out it wasn't quite where you were heading. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 545a38c | The hard silence between frustrated people always feels cluttered. But holy silence is spacious and inviting. You can drink it down. We offer it to ourselves when we work, rest, meditate, bike, read. When we hike by ourselves, we hear a silence still pristine with crunching leaves and birdsong. Silence can be a system of peace, which is mercy, easily offered to a friend needing quiet, harder when the person is one's own annoying self. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 42e36ac | When you can step back at moments like these and see what is happening, when you watch people you love under fire or evaporating, you realize that the secret of life is patch patch patch. Thread your needle, make a knot, find one place on the other piece of torn cloth where you can make one stitch that will hold. And do it again. And again. And again. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 0e3668f | Usually with life, you start wherever you are, and you flail around for a while-- | Anne Lamott | ||
| 5174866 | The great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote, "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. / I awoke and saw that life was service. / I acted and behold, service was joy." | Anne Lamott | ||
| 1084ebc | For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require." | manners paris | Craig Ferguson | |
| 291684a | You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him. | Blake Crouch | ||
| 2e54a94 | Sometimes we have to do things we don't want to." "Why?" "Because they're the right things." | Blake Crouch | ||
| b6c59d2 | Since the Industrial Revolution, we've treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars. But we aren't rock stars. In the scheme of evolutionary forces, we are a weak, fragile species. Our genome is corruptible, and we so abused this planet that we ultimately corrupted that precious DNA blueprint that makes us human. | Blake Crouch | ||
| ce5984f | remind me that woman must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities; that she must be the pioneer in achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 676728c | One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| d84a9e9 | They'll respect deeds, Ethan, not words. | Chloe Neill | ||
| aca7af9 | You'll be fine, baby girl. I know you--how capable you are and how stubborn--and those are qualities that Ethan will come to appreciate." "Given time," Catcher muttered. "Lots and lots and lots of time." "Eons," Jeff agreed. "Immortal," I reminded them, using a finger to point at myself. "We have the time. Besides, I wouldn't want to make it too easy on him." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 49db1bc | You need to stop flirting with me Shepherd or we're never going to get anything done. | Chloe Neill | ||
| f0ea2c7 | In case you've forgotten, Ethan Sullivan trained me. And in case you didn't know, Catcher Bell schooled me in sword craft. I was raised on 'difficult to work with. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 6e4ae1a | I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust--the perfumes of knowledge. | merit | Chloe Neill | |
| c6dd19d | This was the magic of feasting & fucking, of savoring the blood of a kill & calling the Pack to dine. | Chloe Neill |