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| c954181 | The definition of vulnerability is uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. But vulnerability is not weakness; it's our most accurate measure of courage. When the barrier is our belief about vulnerability, the question becomes: 'Are we willing to show up and be seen when we can't control the outcome?' When the barrier to vulnerability is about safety, the question becomes: 'Are we willing to create courageous spaces so we can be fully see.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 9ed42f0 | Our culture teaches us about shame--it dictates what is acceptable and what is not. We weren't born craving perfect bodies. We weren't born afraid to tell our stories. We weren't born with a fear of getting too old to feel valuable. We weren't born with a Pottery Barn catalog in one hand and heartbreaking debt in the other. Shame comes from outside of us--from the messages and expectations of our culture. What comes from the inside of us is.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 21a87b1 | It was a long year. I lovingly refer to it on my blog as the 2007 Breakdown Spiritual Awakening. It felt like a textbook breakdown to me, but Diana called it a spiritual awakening. I think we were both right. In fact, I'm starting to question if you can have one without the other. | Brené Brown | ||
| 3f572f0 | When a group or community doesn't tolerate dissent and disagreement, it forgoes any experience of inextricable connection. There is no true belonging, only an unspoken treaty to hate the same people. This fuels our spiritual crisis of disconnection. | Brené Brown | ||
| 9a16317 | When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help. | judgement | Brené Brown | |
| a397b3e | The irony is that we attempt to disown our difficult stories to appear more whole or more acceptable, but our wholeness--even our wholeheartedness--actually depends on the integration of all of our experiences, including the falls. | Brené Brown | ||
| 3446cf0 | We run from grief because loss scares us, yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend. C. S. Lewis wrote, "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." We can't rise strong when we're on the run." | Brené Brown | ||
| 94afddb | Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth. | lying truth | Brené Brown | |
| d5c6728 | We fail the minute we let someone else define success for us. | Brené Brown | ||
| e77afbf | When we hear people referred to as animals or aliens, we should immediately wonder, "Is this an attempt to reduce someone's humanity so we can get away with hurting them or denying them basic human rights?" | Brené Brown | ||
| 57b912d | I believe Black Lives Matter is a movement to rehumanize black citizens. All lives matter, but not all lives need to be pulled back into moral inclusion. Not all people were subjected to the psychological process of demonizing and being made less than human so we could justify the inhumane practice of slavery. | Brené Brown | ||
| 7035333 | Neither one of us could really articulate how we felt until I heard Lamott referencing Paul Tillich and telling the audience, "The opposite of faith is not doubt--it's certainty." Steve and I didn't leave religion because we stopped believing in God. Religion left us when it started putting politics and certainty before love and mystery." | Brené Brown | ||
| 8afc6d9 | Common enemy intimacy is counterfeit connection and the opposite of true belonging. If the bond we share with others is simply that we hate the same people, the intimacy we experience is often intense, immediately gratifying, and an easy way to discharge outrage and pain. It is not, however, fuel for real connection. It's fuel that runs hot, burns fast, and leaves a trail of polluted emotion. And if we live with any level of self-awareness,.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 12feabe | Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's pretty extraordinary. | Brené Brown | ||
| 9d6f676 | A girl needs to be able to dream, you know ? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 031709a | That she had somehow taken the initiative to learn my name should have struck me then, but it did not. Instead, as she stood on the street with the rain coming down and mascara running onto her cheeks, all I could think was that I'd never seen anyone more beautiful. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a6ddc75 | For with knowledge comes pain. To limit the pain I limit my answers. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| cb092fa | He likewise directed, "that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public." | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 28c6f79 | They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the discourse. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 35ab580 | I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 27133f2 | As learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| ba50ecc | Falsehood flies," observed Jonathan Swift, "and the truth comes limping after it." | Madeleine K. Albright | ||
| 19bd51f | My little friend Grildrig; you have made a most admirable panegyrick upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator. That laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them. I observe among you, some lines of an institution, which in its original might have been tolerabl.. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| d38243b | You say that every morning." Miles shrugged. "You're late every morning." "Then wake me up sooner." "I have a better idea--why don't you go to sleep when I tell you to?" "I'm not tired then. I'm only tired in the mornings." "Join the club." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| cefeca3 | The destiny that matters most in anyone's life is the one concerning love. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3c7dc1c | But for to telle yow al hir beautee, It lyth nat in my tonge, n'yn my konnyng; I dar nat undertake so heigh a thyng. Myn Englissh eek is insufficient. It moste been a rethor excellent That koude his colours longynge for that art, If he sholde hire discryven every part. I am noon swich, I moot speke as I kan. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 919ba83 | By God," quod he, "for pleynly, at a word, Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!" -- | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| f1872f8 | Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in switch licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his half cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (So Priketh hem Nature in hir corages), Thanne lo.. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 73f8e3b | When that Aprille with his shoures sote. The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote, | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 45baf23 | He who repeats a tale after a man, Is bound to say, as nearly as he can, Each single word, if he remembers it, However rudely spoken or unfit, Or else the tale he tells will be untrue, The things invented and the phrases new. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 282cb01 | ENEMIES OFTEN become mirror images of each other. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 5b1ada1 | All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own. | asian-american vietnamese wine writing | Monique Truong | |
| 7db9cd0 | Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none. | Monique Truong | ||
| 4096240 | WE all need a story of where we came from and how we got here. | Monique Truong | ||
| f0fabb2 | What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege. | Piers Anthony | ||
| 92f76fe | Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| f2d334e | The command to be free is a double bind | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| d9c2862 | Why are we here?' 'To make more love.' 'All right, fair enough. But how do we best love this world Allah gave us? We do it by learning it! [...] If you try to understand things, if you look at the world and say, why does this happen, why do things fall, why does the sun come up every morning and shine on us, and warm the air and fill the leaves with green--how does all this happen? What rules has Allah used to make this beautiful world?--Th.. | knowledge science understanding | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| ceb260f | But no. That was analogy rather than homology. What in the humanities they would call a heroic simile, if he understood the term, or a metaphor, or some other kind of literary analogy. And analogies were mostly meaningless -- a matter of phenotype rather than genotype (to use another analogy). Most, of poetry and literature, really all the humanities, not to mention the social sciences, were phenotypic as far as Sax could tell. They added u.. | obfuscation | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 84cd3c4 | In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold. | employment slavery | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| 1b11623 | Every day we wake up into a new world, each sleep causes yet another reincarnation. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 809959d | Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 7e8c936 | Indeed I now think that the Indian and Chinese description of the afterlife, the system of the six lokas or realms of reality - the devas, asuras, humans, beasts, pretas, and inhabitants of hell - is in fact a metaphorical but precise description of this world and the inequalities that exist in it, with the devas sitting in luxury and judgment on the rest, the asuras fighting to keep the devas in their high position, the humans getting by a.. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| d7c2808 | Looking back down the vale of the ages at the endless recurrence of their reincarnations, before they were forced to drink their vials of forgetting and all became obscure to them again, they could see no pattern at all to their efforts; if the gods had a plan, or even a set of procedures, if the long train of transmigrations was supposed to add up to anything, if it was not just mindless repetition, time itself nothing but a succession of .. | Kim Stanley Robinson |