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| c1bd0e2 | But the Grateful Dead, as the fanatic fans point out, are a way of life: someone else's. Twentieth-century teenagers, especially American ones, have been brilliant at creating their own culture, their own music, clothes, and point(s) of view. It's sad and fraudulent that the kind of wholesale worship of some historical way of life has settled over so many young people, infecting them like a noxious gas... I love the dead--grew up in the thr.. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 2ef7a69 | Psychotherapy seeks for an improvement in neurotic balance. Letting go, however, eliminates it all together. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| fcc7914 | Emotions themselves are actually the cause of the basic fear that drives everyone to seek security constantly. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 23ac930 | Why is true success so relatively effortless? It might be likened to the magnetic field created by an electric current running through a wire. The higher the power of the current, the greater the magnetic field that it generates. And the magnetic field itself then influences everything in its presence. There are very few at the top. The world of the mediocre, however, is one of intense competition, and the bottom of the pyramid is crowded. .. | power-of-love spirituality spirituality-quotes | David R. Hawkins | |
| 1ee48b8 | A few years ago I heard Jerome Kagan, a distinguished emeritus professor of child psychology at Harvard, say to the Dalai Lama that for every act of cruelty in this world there are hundreds of small acts of kindness and connection. His conclusion: "To be benevolent rather than malevolent is probably a true feature of our species." Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe c.. | connection trauma | Bessel A. van der Kolk | |
| 6dd2b68 | It's not a holiday until you overdo it! | mike-carey | Mike Carey | |
| ef68caa | Money is the root of all goodness. To talk disparagingly about money is the privilege of those who have money. There are also those people who state matter-of-factly that "money isn't everything". This statement is also true, but only so long as one has money." | Charles Willeford | ||
| 73e4fec | thinking, when you first try it, is very difficult. | Charles Willeford | ||
| fe43f1c | Ultimately, forgiveness is usually about one thing--"This is for me, not for you." Hatred is exhausting; forgiveness, or even just indifference, is freeing. To quote Booker T. Washington, "I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him." Belittle and distort and consume. Forgiveness seems to be at least somewhat good for your health--victims who show spontaneous forgiveness, or who have gone through forgiveness therapy (as o.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 63652e3 | probably the most important fact about genetics and culture is the delayed maturation of the frontal cortex--the genetic programming for the young frontal cortex to be freer from genes than other brain regions, to be sculpted instead by environment, to sop up cultural norms. To hark back to a theme from the first pages of this book, it doesn't take a particularly fancy brain to learn how to motorically, say, throw a punch. But it takes a fa.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 6ab256a | Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| bac4dfa | Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a large scale, | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| a54c76f | Why did such truths only reveal themselves after they'd become lies? | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 2b18cc7 | Such a reader does not read for easy pleasure or to expiate social guilt, but to enlarge a solitary existence. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 4679ca1 | Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands. | shakespeare | Harold Bloom | |
| 521385b | Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don't get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren't careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them. JESSICA VALENTI The Purity Myth | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 24e47ac | Women don't get raped because they were drinking or taking drugs. Women don't get raped because they weren't careful. Women get raped because someone raped them. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 7a845fc | Love didn't deserve the nice reputation it had. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 0ea71a5 | The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
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| 3c65bfa | There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. --ALDOUS HUXLEY | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 0c7997c | each one of us will face a moment when eternity whispers into our hearts, This is your time. | Michael W. Smith | ||
| 4ec89f3 | Lucas's position was supine: that is, whenever he heard people arguing about it, he wanted to lie down and take a nap. | John Sandford | ||
| 56e7882 | he thought a bit about God, and whether He might be some kind of universal digital computer, subject to the occasional bug or hack. Was it possible that politicians and hedge-fund operators were some kind of garbled cosmic computer code? That the Opponent, instead of having horns and a forked tail, was a fat bearded guy drinking Big Gulps and eating anchovy pizzas and writing viruses down in a hellish basement? That prayers weren't answered.. | John Sandford | ||
| d783778 | Even thinking was hard. | John Sandford | ||
| 8ffb4c4 | I'll bring pajamas " she said. "Yeah? You have any idea how old I am?" "Not nearly as old as you're gonna be by midnight." | John Sandford | ||
| e3b5fda | there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous. | John Sandford | ||
| 7716a71 | When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures have created an enormous chasm between the joyeous light of the age of the Renaissance to the dark shadow of September 11, 2001. Those of us living on that fateful day experienced the lower depths of mankind. As an author, avid reader, world traveler, and person of enormous curiosity, my life experiences have.. | human-beings knowledge peace religious tolerance understanding world-peace | Jean Sasson | |
| aaa05d2 | Beware of those who look like rose, for even roses have thorns. | Jean Sasson | ||
| c54044d | Those who haven't been exposed to the hypocrisies of a civilized education react to things 'naturally', as they happen. It is in the here and now that they are either happy or unhappy, joyful or sad, interested or indifferent. | Henri Charrière | ||
| 8b345e8 | Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of...in-between" | bridge dead dying in-between | Mitch Albom | |
| c96c222 | Come to me, you who are weary and burdened, and I will grant you rest. (Matthew 11:28) | Mitch Albom | ||
| 751c6ab | War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 30ef2a6 | He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children. "I do not want to die," she whispered. "You will not die." "I want to be with you." "You are." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 54ea3fa | The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. | family | Mitch Albom | |
| 54945de | All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 564eb27 | Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God--or literally the hell we might have to pay--the rest of us would just take what we wanted. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1f2875c | Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4aee4bb | Have you ever dreamt of someone who's gone,but in the dream you have new conversation? The world you enter then is not so far from the world I'm in now. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 62e13c3 | Sully: I never said good-bye Giselle: Such a needless word when you love somebody | Mitch Albom | ||
| 905e023 | Not aging is not the same as living | Mitch Albom | ||
| 582e510 | A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house up to her bedroom, and down into a deep, dark hole. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 300ed30 | Sometimes during the night, your father awakened. He rose from his bed, staggered across the room, and found the strength to raise the window sash. He called your mother's name with what little voice he had, and he called yours, too, and your brother, Joe. And he called for Mickey. At that moment, it seemed, his heart was spilling out, all the guilt and regret. Perhaps he felt the light of death approaching. Perhaps he only knew you were al.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 8ea298b | Secrets, Charley," my mother whispered. "They'll tear you apart." | Mitch Albom |