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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7dd3727 | It is. And yet so few really are free. Nearly all people live in prisons of their own making, regardless of their faith, creed, sex or race. | Ted Dekker | ||
| e96ca8d | I'm a skeptic of religious systems, not of the faith. Someday I will be happy to discuss the difference with you. | Ted Dekker | ||
| a239565 | There was nothing he could ever do that would cause him to be loved less than he was in that moment - or in any moment of his existence. Nor could he possibly be loved more. Nor could he disappoint the One who'd breathed him into being. Austin was fully known in ways that he couldn't understand, and yet he was fully, completely accepted and treasured." "How was it possible that such unfathomable perfections would love him so completely? He .. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 79726d7 | Elyon was restoring the Great Romance. Teeleh had stolen his first love, but now Justin had reclaimed her. The price had been his own life. He'd taken her disease on himself and he'd drowned with it, inviting them to embrace his invitation to the Romance by following him into the lake to drown with him. To live as his bride! | Ted Dekker | ||
| 4298e97 | Love can only be found in freedom of choice. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 58332ce | But if you look to your Maker, you'll find enough power to kill a thousand Slaters - Dr. John Francis | divinity | Ted Dekker | |
| 1df6d23 | Tears flooded her eyes and her heart beat heavily, but she knew it would be all right, because she knew that in the end the kind of power that was in these Books would never let her down. | Ted Dekker | ||
| b3c3bcf | We call our religion the Great Romance, but really it feels more like a list of rules than anything similar to the Great Romance we once had. But now I think the knowledge of Elyon is starting to work its way into me again--in both realities...If Elyon's real there, surely God must be real here. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 95075dd | Another world. Another life. And for me it was much longer than five measly years. A world with more darkness and less hope than I care to remember. Bleak and starless, full of diseased men. It's inside them there. In some ways it makes it worse. You don't know who's diseased and who isn't. You don't know when you've become a Scab. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 0964481 | What we see may deceive us - the skin may be deceptive - but there has to be one truth, right? It can't all just be a jumble of perceptions. So what really exists out there, beyond what we can see? We're so dependent on the surfaces of what we see. But if we could see past the skin of this world... | Ted Dekker | ||
| b031239 | Only a woman could make so much out of so little. Give them a single fact and they'd fashion it into a story before taking a single breath. | Ted Dekker | ||
| bf387fb | What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other. Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959 | death following-christ | Ted Dekker | |
| a424490 | Some people need a picture. Any great religion has to be inclusive. And to be inclusive you have to accommodate different levels of sophistication. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 1e192d5 | At the time, infatuated with Nietzsche (and half asleep), Leonard didn't want to get into this argument, the truth of which wasn't that all religions were equally valid but that they were equally nonsensical. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| da06a48 | and you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| fac7f0e | Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities. Jimmy Zizmo, crouching over the Packard's wheel has already changed past understanding. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 479f462 | Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating "all the elements of the Republican party--including the impracticable, the Pharisees, the better-than-thou declaimers, the long-haired men and the short-haired women." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 03e31ac | They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind. In those whom they have blessed they live a life again. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5db31f4 | Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself. | cheerfulness curiosity enthusiasm parenthood personality | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 5f501af | Subject: Some boat Alex, I know Fox Mulder. My mom watched . She says it was because she liked the creepy store lines. I think she liked David Duchovny. She tried , but I don't think her heart was in it. I think she was just sticking it to my grandmother, who has decided it's the work of the devil. She says that about most current music,too, but God help anyone who gets between her and . The fuzzy whale was very nice, it a little hard to.. | Melissa Jensen | ||
| 3ff4885 | Oxygen is a need, but love is a want. I repeat: LOVE IS NOT AN ADULT HUMAN NEED! | David D. Burns | ||
| 7a511dd | Stice's] parents had met and fallen in love in a Country/Western bar in Partridge KS -- just outside Liberal KS on the Oklahoma border -- met and fallen in star-crossed love in a bar playing this popular Kansas C/W-bar-game where they put their bare forearms together and laid a lit cigarette in the little valley between the two forearms' flesh and kept it there till one of them finally jerked their arm away and reeled away holding their arm.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| a87f30d | You may also be angry with yourself that you couldn't stop it from happening. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| f03098f | We will never like this reality or make it okay, but eventually we accept it. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| e060f36 | Your sorrow is the inevitable result of circumstances beyond your control, | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| a7f8269 | You can become a channel and a source of great inner strength. But you must give up everything in order to gain everything. What must you give up? All that is not truly you; all that you have chosen without choosing and value without evaluating, accepting because of someone else's extrinsic judgment, rather than your own; all your self-doubt that keeps you from trusting and loving yourself or other human beings. | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | ||
| 3b4b07e | And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 9bd4fdf | Your attitude determines your altitude, | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 9e2b648 | A woman named Cynthia once told me a story about the time her father had made plans to take her on a night out in San Francisco. Twelve-year-old Cynthia and her father had been planning the "date" for months. They had a whole itinerary planned down to the minute: she would attend the last hour of his presentation, and then meet him at the back of the room at about four-thirty and leave quickly before everyone tried to talk to him. They woul.. | Greg McKeown | ||
| a93dbba | We could spend weeks, months, even years laboring with the personality ethic trying to change our attitudes and behaviors and not even begin to approach the phenomenon of change that occurs spontaneously when we see things differently | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 90a3cf7 | Interdependence is a far more mature, more advanced concept. If I am physically interdependent, I am self-reliant and capable, but I also realize that you and I working together can accomplish far more than, even at my best, I could accomplish alone. If I am emotionally interdependent, I derive a great sense of worth within myself, but I also recognize the need for love, for giving, and for receiving love from others. If I am intellectually.. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 015f71c | If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| f146c38 | Animals do not possess this ability. We call it "self-awareness" or the ability to think about your very thought process." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 6b582ca | There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 3fdefa1 | Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 9054c72 | Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience, and it doesn't preclude the necessity to train and develop people so that their competency can rise to the level of that trust. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 3f3b19c | The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| baf9ce2 | He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self. | self success victory | Stephen R. Covey | |
| e4a63ed | Listen twice as much as you speak. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| a23fb1a | Effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships around principles; ineffective people attempt to manage their time around priorities and their tasks around goals. Think effectiveness with people; efficiency with things. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 22119c7 | You now see everything through a veil of associations about things, projected over a direct, simple awareness. You've 'seen it all before'; it's like watching a movie for the twentieth time. You see only memories of things, so you become bored. Boredom, you see, is fundamental nonawareness of life; boredom is awareness, trapped in the mind. You'll have to lose your mind before you can come to your senses. | Dan Millman | ||
| 912d1e3 | It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. | Dan Millman | ||
| 6f117ff | Make peace within, and there will be no one who can overcome you. And no one you will wish to overcome. | Dan Millman | ||
| 892875d | Tragedy is very different for the warrior and for the fool. | Dan Millman |