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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3223c34 | Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4435247 | If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 2ad4610 | No, none of these things are the key. When it comes right down to it, I know of only one factor that separates those who consistently shine from those who don't: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. Nothing else has the same kind of impact on people's ability to achieve and to accomplish whatever their minds and hearts desire. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| dfd3f82 | Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 86e643e | Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| e0bb51e | when god lets my body be From each brave eye shall sprout a tree fruit that dangles therefrom the purpled world will dance upon Between my lips which did sing a rose shall beget the spring that maidens whom passion wastes will lay between their little breasts My strong fingers beneath the snow Into strenuous birds shall go my love walking in the grass their wings will touch with her face and all the while shall my heart be With the bulge an.. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 736a922 | unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric - people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools | poetry spirituality stereotypes | Norman Friedman | |
| e880810 | something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace | poetry | E.E. Cummings | |
| f68f41f | Christians have been beaten, whipped, starved, humiliated, mutilated, tortured, hung, burned at the stake, crucified, and fed to lions; yet two thousand years after a man called Jesus of Nazareth walked the streets of Jerusalem, 1,734 million people alive on this earth today call themselves by the ever-dividing, ever-uniting word: Christian. God is still scattering the seeds a few righteous renegades planted in a city called Antioch. Had th.. | Beth Moore | ||
| 8d7348c | Remember, any day not surrendered to the Spirit of God will likely be lived in the flesh (Gal. 5:16-17). | Beth Moore | ||
| 97262c6 | True prayer, not just mindless, halfhearted petitions, is what digs the well God wants to fill with faith. | Beth Moore | ||
| 7df4068 | Lord, You know me. You know my natural personality is given to fear. You know all my insecurities. You know that I have a need to be loved and to feel significant and to feel affirmed. And Father, I'm not going to ask my family to do that for me today. They may or may not, and if they do, that's wonderful. But Father, You are my sole satisfaction, and I ask You to satisfy me this morning with Your unfailing love. | Beth Moore | ||
| a2f8ad5 | You and I need to obey God. When we do, the consequences of our obedience become God's problem and not ours. | Beth Moore | ||
| 7cc62b4 | God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change. * * * What | Beth Moore | ||
| a323ca4 | She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense. | C.E. Murphy | ||
| ea904ad | I don't need men like Ross on my side. I just need them to get out of my way. (Mitch Rapp) | Vince Flynn | ||
| 7aeecb9 | But it's atheists who say that the world wasn't made by anyone, and you say you're not an atheist . . ." I'm not because I can't bring myself to believe that all these things we see around us--the way trees and fruits grow, and the solar system, and our brains--came about by chance. They're too well made. And therefore there must have been a creating mind. God." | Umberto Eco | ||
| 982c6ec | The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 646b33f | We were interrupted by a girl with a strawberry birthmark on her nose; she had some papers in her hand and asked if we had signed the petition for the imprisoned Argentinean comrades. Belbo signed without reading it. "They're even worse of than I am," he said to Diotallevi, who was regarding him with a bemused expression. "He can't sign," Belbo said to the girl. "He belongs to a small Indian sect that forbids its members to write their own .. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 468462c | They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I'm a cat that hit its nose. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 8f12d50 | It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ... | Umberto Eco | ||
| 17c551a | Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is. | heresy inquisition power revolution | Umberto Eco | |
| ca4dc1f | Jacopo, while I could still read, during these past months, I read dictionaries, I studied histories of words, to understand what was happening in my body. I studied like a rabbi. Have you ever reflected that the linguistic term `metathesis' is similar to the oncological term `metastasis'? What is the metathesis? Instead of `clasp' one says `claps.' Instead of `beloved' one says `bevoled.' It's the temurah. The dictionary says that metathes.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 71a86d9 | To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are. | culture man nature | Umberto Eco | |
| 804766f | The simple are meat for slaughter, to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power, and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use. | the-simple using-the-mob | Umberto Eco | |
| 5636462 | The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them. | mystery templars unknown venerate | Umberto Eco | |
| 02e39a6 | The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. If it had been possible, he would have settled the matter otherwise, and without bloodshed. He doesn't boast of his own death or of others'. But he doesn't repent. He suffers and keeps his mouth shut; if anything, others then exploit him, making him a myth, while he, the man worthy of esteem, was only a poor creature who reacted with dignity .. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 7c438b2 | There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 3b6bcbb | The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 2ff6944 | Here he was holding the clear proof of the existence of other skies, but at the same time without having to ascend beyond the celestial spheres, for he intuited many worlds in a piece of coral. Was there any need to calculate the number of forms which the atoms of the Universe could create--burning at the stake all those who said their number was not finite--when it sufficed to meditate for years on one of these marine objects to realize ho.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| d7a5799 | And don't succumb too much to the spell of these cases. I have seen many other fragments of the cross, in other churches. If all were genuine, our Lord's torment could not have been on a couple of planks nailed together, but on an entire forest.' 'Master!' I said, shocked. 'So it is, Adso. And there are ever richer treasuries. Some time ago, in the cathedral of Cologne, I saw the skull of John the Baptist at the age of twelve.' 'Really?' I .. | humour | Umberto Eco | |
| bdaa09c | Her daughter's comment amused Emily. 'I didn't know stalking could be a group activity | Gregg Olsen | ||
| 846e634 | But when you're a kid it's like you're wearing these binoculars strapped to your eyes and you can't see anything except what's in the dead center of the lenses | Russell Banks | ||
| d074998 | Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men--at least he always did when he was a kid--because they pretend that's what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives. | Russell Banks | ||
| 085bae2 | Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river -- small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any v.. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 4e5315d | And yet she hadn't the air of a woman whose life had been touched by uncertainty or suffering. Pain, fear, and grief were things that left their mark on people. Even love, that exquisite torturing emotion, left its subtle traces on the countenance. | Nella Larsen | ||
| 58e9c5a | Time," he said solemnly, "is comparable to a river flowing under a layer of ice. It stretches us out like water weeds, from root to tip, from birth to death, curled around whatever rocks or snags happen to lie in our path; and no one can get out of the river because of the ice roof, and no one can turn back against the current for an instant." | Tim Powers | ||
| e92eddd | Let us quickly be finished with this business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner. | Tim Powers | ||
| 4a2a5fd | Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches. | inspirational literature power-of-words words | Tim Radford | |
| a62fac1 | Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must | Tim Dorsey | ||
| a876767 | What are you not doing today that you were doing when I first met you? | Tim Sanders | ||
| f4ca6f2 | I went to work the next day out of curiosity, as people return to their villages after the war to see what is left. | Miranda July | ||
| 90324f8 | It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them. | Miranda July | ||
| 6f53d0d | I do this before I bring someone new into my life; I try to get a sense of who I am so that I can make it easier for them to know me. | Miranda July |