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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5f6b839 | Always remember you have been given the power to forgive any offense, and in so doing, remove it from your awareness as far as the east is from the west. True Vision is his gift, allowing you to see no blame; forgiveness is your truest purpose in the life. Seventy times seven, always leaving the old self in a watery grave and rising to find no fault. That's grace, that's true baptism and that's good news... | Ted Dekker | ||
| e8a1f90 | These were his people--a strange thought. Maybe not his very own people, as in father, mother, brother, sister, but people just like him. He was lost but not so lost after all. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 4d77cdf | The world didn't like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn't change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 108eb01 | In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 4788ecb | You cannot love anything or anyone more than you love yourself and you can't love yourself unless you see yourself whole. If you secretly disapprove of any part of yourself, you will secretly hate part of the One who made you. Can you understand that? | Ted Dekker | ||
| 25a35e4 | My beloved, you have chosen me. You have been courted by my adversary, and you have chosen me. You have answered my call to the Circle, and today I call you my bride. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 7bba766 | Your lives have always been about the Great Romance, and in the days to come you will understand that like never before. Your love will be tested. Others will join you. Some will leave the circle. Some will die. All of you will suffer. The Horde will hate you because their hearts have been stolen and their eyes have been blinded by the Shataiki. But if you keep your eyes on me until the end...the lake will seem tame compared to what awaits .. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 76759c5 | I believe in God because only an idiot can look at the complex balance of nature and believe that has not been designed. Believe it or not, but some people still believe that a watch can make itself out of sand if you just give it enough time. That's what they call evolution. And you wonder why I am cynical. From my point of view you have to be a fool not to be cynical. | evolution | Ted Dekker | |
| 1109fda | I have a confession." "Oh?" | Ted Dekker | ||
| df2c3e7 | And then... And then Thomas Hunter dreamed, and the world would never be the same. | thomas-hunter | Ted Dekker | |
| 94325d7 | Let go of your right to take offense at all that ever threatened you and all that threatens you still. Release the fear your understanding shows you in this storm. Turn even the other cheek. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 79f7524 | Love can only be found in freedom of choice. And for choice to exist, there must be an alternative to choose. Something as compelling as love. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 4f9dcea | Who are you, anyway?" "Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them." "I could have sworn we just met," Madeleine said. "And that you don't know anything about me." Henry stood up. With a slightly offended air but undiminished confidence, he said, "People save themselves." He left her with that to think about." | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| c57a417 | Almost overnight it became laughable to read writers like Cheever or Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about anally deflowering virgins in eighteenth-century France. The reason de Sade was preferable was that his shocking sex scenes weren't about sex but politics. They were therefore anti-imperialist, anti-bourgeois, anti-patriarchal, an.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 47fecf2 | In those days you could identify a person's nationality by smell. Lying on her back with eyes closed, Desdemona could detect the telltale oniony aroma of a Hungarian woman on her right, and the raw-meat smell of an Armenian on her left. (And they, in turn, could peg Desdemona as a Hellene by her aroma of garlic and yogurt.) | nationality smell | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 4f1d28b | This whole country's stolen. | theft usa | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 61bf66c | I understood at those times what I was leaving behind: the solidarity of a shared biology. Women know what it means to have a body. They understand its difficulties and frailties, its glories and pleasures. Men think their bodies are theirs alone. They tend them in private, even in public. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 154f750 | A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| ddeb5db | Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face. | face faces hair personal-appearance simile | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| cdbbc32 | The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| baa9ea0 | Pregnancy made her feel too much like an animal. It was embarrassing to be so publicly colonized. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 1e65f7e | Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 79e575e | Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them...People don't save other people. People save themselves. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b567edb | Olivia lit a cigarette and said, "God, if I worried about running into old boyfriends, I couldn't go anywhere!" | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 563ebf4 | Simon Cameron: "I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled up the rugged hill of life's success--but he died bravely in the discharge of his duty." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| a255428 | Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him--the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 216c0f4 | We do not have to become heroes overnight," Eleanor once wrote. "Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 48229a8 | Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| fc268f6 | I've got to stay awake,' she said, punching her cheeks until the roses came. 'There isn't time to sleep, I'd look consumptive, I'd sag like a tenement, and that wouldn't be fair: a girl can't go to Sing Sing with a green face. | Truman Capote | ||
| a9f2f2e | You must first consider that a human life is an ongoing process that involves a constantly changing physical body as well as an enormous number of rapidly changing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Your life therefore is an evolving experience, a continual flow. You are not a thing; that's why any label is constricting, highly inaccurate, and global. | David D. Burns | ||
| 985c941 | Much everyday anger results when we confuse our own personal wants with general moral codes. | David D. Burns | ||
| b7499f9 | Let me explain why. "Perfection" is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe. There is no perfection. It's really the world's greatest con game; it promises riches and delivers misery. The harder you strive for perfection, the worse your disappointment will become because it's only an abstraction, a concept that doesn't fit reality. Everything can be improved if you look at it closely and critically enough--every per.. | David D. Burns | ||
| 3863ad0 | Y por primera vez en mi vida, la salida fue la de la fe . Esta fe llegaba del saber profundo de que yo disponia de la suficiente fuerza y del coraje como para poder sufrir sola esta agonia y la certeza de que nunca se nos da mas de lo que podemos aguantar. De pronto comprendi que solo tenia que cesar en mi lucha, transformar mi resistencia en sumision y decir sencillamente "si"." | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| ebbce57 | you are worthy and lovable, just as you are, on your own. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| e303299 | Todas las teorias y toda la ciencia del mundo no pueden ayudar a nadie tanto como un ser humano que no teme abrir su corazon a otro. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 8779f6c | When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, neglecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control levers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to sh.. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 1170db0 | Because their identity and sense of self-worth are wrapped up in their work, their security is vulnerable to anything that happens to prevent them from continuing in it. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| bcc0bcb | If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy that these possessions may be lost or stolen or devalued. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| c14215d | In the words of William George Jordan, "Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil--the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 1563a0c | A serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. People become reinforced in the paradigm that they are determined, and they produce evidence to support the belief. They feel increasingly victimized and out of control, not in charge of their life or their destiny. They blame outside forces--other people, circumstances, even the stars--for their own situation. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 47c8ccf | Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 7b1aacb | When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| f69e9f1 | My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| af29dbb | Anytime we think the problem is "out there," that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us." | Stephen R. Covey |