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| f0d06ee | self-awareness is increased much more rapidly by observing feelings rather than thoughts. The thoughts associated with even one feeling may literally run into the thousands. The understanding of the underlying emotion and its correct handling is, therefore, more rewarding and less time-consuming than dealing with one's thoughts. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 9c8bac4 | We could take the same protective actions out of love rather than out of fear. Can we not care for our bodies because we appreciate and value them, rather than out of fear of disease and dying? Can we not be of service to others in our life out of love, rather than out of fear of losing them? Can we not be polite and courteous to strangers because we care for our fellow human beings, rather than because we fear losing their good opinion of .. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 4426f53 | the insensitivity comes with self-excuses, such as: "I am an upfront person who speaks my mind," or "I am the frank type; you always know where you stand with me." These comments are a cover-up for insensitivity, which might be better described as gauche." | David R. Hawkins | ||
| b8b06c0 | The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible. | perspective storytelling writing | William Manchester | |
| 26da5be | There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged. | despondency leadership resiliency | William Raymond Manchester | |
| 8cd3cc5 | Maybe she's got a Facebook page, like every other kid in America. We could put something on her wall." Her eyes lit up very briefly before she slumped. "No, she's far too paranoid for that." "I was joking." "Yes, but you know how kids are about Facebook." "But she's hiding from an eight-foot-tall sociopathic werewolf wizard who can call down lightning bolts." "We're also talking about Facebook." Tristan contemplated her. "I think I need to .. | facebook humor tristan | Angela Knight | |
| 94f1a16 | You know what, Gwen?" he managed, once he'd caught his breath. -"What?" "I'm glad you picked me as your birthday present." -Ethan Banks" | Heidi Betts | ||
| 557574e | When they'd met, Anakin had been a warmhearted nine-year-old boy with an open nature. He was twelve and a half now, and the years had changed him. He had grown to be a boy who hid his heart. | obi-wan-kenobi star-wars | Jude Watson | |
| 0b6b527 | At this point in the story, the character looks at himself. He takes stock of where he is in the conflict and--depending on the type of story--has either of two basic thoughts. In a character-driven story, he looks at himself and wonders what kind of person he is. What is he becoming? If he continues the fight of Act II, how will he be different? What will he have to do to overcome his inner challenges? How will he have to change in order t.. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 631e288 | It was a hot, moist armpit of a night... | Mike Carey | ||
| b1c1bfb | And send not to ask for whom the fucking bell tolls, because you're not going to like the answer. | Mike Carey | ||
| e9b296c | The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy." Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President of the United States of America. Served 1913-1921. President during World War I, only President to be interred within Washington, DC, at the National Cathedral." | political | Max Allan Collins | |
| 55f55e6 | Many eyes are watching you, and many hearts are wary of your presence | Steve Augarde | ||
| 9cd6f8e | I can't see any point to hanging around a Burger King all day, no matter how much money you make. .... I'll tell you why. Your life would depend on the random desires of people who wanted a hamburger. So you can just forget about Burger King. | Charles Willeford | ||
| 0998879 | Why is it that our automatic, intuitive moral judgments tend to be nonutilitarian? Because, as Greene states in his book, "Our moral brains evolved to help us spread our genes, not to maximize our collective happiness." | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 50fc9f0 | Suddenly, I get this giddy desire to shock these guys a little. I continue, "These baboons really are our relatives. In fact, this baboon is my cousin." And with that I lean over and give Daniel a loud messy kiss on his big ol' nose. I get more of a response than I bargained for. The Masai freak and suddenly, they are waving their spears real close to my face, like they mean it. One is yelling, "He is not your cousin, he is not your cousin!.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 1b2dc45 | A large percentage of what we think of when we talk about stress-related diseases are disorders of excessive stress-responses. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| ceaa40c | In our society, defecation involves an individual in activity which is defined as inconsistent with the cleanliness and purity standards expressed in many of our performances. Such activity also causes the individual to disarrange his clothing and to 'go out of play," that is, to drop from his face the expressive mask that he employs in face-to-face interaction. At the same time ic becomes difficult for him to reassemble his personal front .. | sociology | Erving Goffman | |
| 8263798 | PERFECTION The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the "quantity" group: fifty pounds of pots rated an "A", forty pound.. | David Bayles | ||
| 0f56f6e | We haven't the time to take our time. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| aa7bf9f | There are indeed millions of Christians in the United States, but most Americans who think that they are Christians truly are something else, intensely religious but devout in the American Religion, a faith that is old among us, and that comes in many guises and disguises, and that overdetermines much of our national life. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 811ea3e | One breaks into the canon only by aesthetic strength. | word-choice writing | Harold Bloom | |
| df76269 | Denying Ahab greatness is an aesthetic blunder: He is akin to Achilles, Odysseus, and King David in one register, and to Don Quixote, Hamlet, and the High Romantic Prometheus of Goethe and Shelley in another. Call the first mode a transcendent heroism and the second the persistence of vision. Both ways are antithetical to nature and protest against our mortality. The epic hero will never submit or yield. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 3a30084 | Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment. | reading | Harold Bloom | |
| 5793eb1 | Gertrude Stein maintained that one wrote for oneself and for strangers, a superb recognition that I would extend into a parallel apothegm: one reads for oneself and for strangers. The Western Canon does not exist in order to augment preexisting societal elites. It is there to be read by you and by strangers, so that you and those you will never meet can encounter authentic aesthetic power and the authority of what Baudelaire (and Erich Auer.. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 514e7f0 | Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 2dcff76 | Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts. | politics-of-the-united-states war | Jon Krakauer | |
| 7d0f745 | When Debbie was fourteen, she felt "impressed by the Lord" to marry Ray Blackmore, the community leader. Debbie asked her father to share her divine impression with Prophet LeRoy Johnson, who would periodically travel to Bountiful from Short Creek to perform various religious duties. Because Debbie was lithe and beautiful, Uncle Roy approved of the match. A year later the prophet returned to Canada and married her to the ailing fifty-seven-.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 9febe35 | Whether one believes that the faith he spawned is the world's only true religion or a preposterous fable, Joseph emerges from the fog of time as one of the most remarkable figures ever to have breathed American air. "Whatever his lapses," Harold Bloom argues in The American Religion, "Smith was an authentic religious genius, unique in our national history.... In proportion to his importance and his complexity, he remains the least-studied p.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| d1b4233 | We Americans are titillated by sex, obsessed by it, horrified by it. When an apparently healthy person, especially a healthy young man, elects to forgo the enticements of the flesh, it shocks us, and we leer. Suspicions are aroused. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 83873c0 | One of the differences between us was that Marc wanted very badly to climb the Eiger, while I wanted very badly only to have climbed the Eiger. Marc, understand, is at that age when the pituitary secretes an overabundance of those hormones that mask the subtler emotions, such as fear. He tends to confuse things like life-or-death climbing with fun. | mountaineering | Jon Krakauer | |
| 2d50351 | His struggle to mold me in his image had been successful after all. The old walrus in fact managed to instill in me a great and burning ambition; it had simply found expression in an unintended pursuit. He never understood that the Devils Thumb was the same as medical school, only different. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 871721c | Danger has always held a certain allure. That, in large part, is why so many teenagers drive too fast and drink too much and take too many drugs, why it has always been so easy for nations to recruit young men to go to war. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 7d9d306 | It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the e.. | hopelessness inspiring life-changing love teenage young | Jon Krakauer | |
| d979401 | Police and prosecutors are morally and professionally obligated to make every effort to identify specious rape reports, safeguard the civil rights of rape suspects, and prevent the falsely accused from being convicted. At the same time, however, police and prosecutors are obligated to do everything in their power to identify individuals who have committed rape and ensure that the guilty are brought to justice. These two objectives are not m.. | justice-system rape rape-culture | Jon Krakauer | |
| 87fe43a | Unfortunately, the sort of individual who is programmed to ignore personal distress and keep pushing for the top is frequently programmed to disregard signs of grave and imminent danger as well. This forms the nub of a dilemma that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die. Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| d0d19d7 | Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 4ac750a | You could tell right away that Alex was intelligent," Westerberg reflects, draining his third drink. "He read a lot. Used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex .. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| d8ce4ab | So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 31945b6 | McCandless read and reread The Call of the Wild, White Fang, "To Build a Fire," "An Odyssey of the North," "The Wit of Porportuk." He was so enthralled by these tales, however, that he seemed to forget they were works of fiction, constructions of the imagination that had more to do with London's romantic sensibilities than with the actualities of life in the subarctic wilderness. McCandless conveniently overlooked the fact that London himse.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 702ceb5 | Once Everest was determined to be the highest summit on earth, it was only a matter of time before people decided that Everest needed to be climbed. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a17d138 | You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 3b9f197 | I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn't resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (...) That was a very different thing from wanting to die. | freedom life wild wilderness | Jon Krakauer | |
| 8e40c47 | Which snowflake is the most magnificent? Is it possible that they are all magnificent--and that, celebrating their magnificence together they create an awesome display? Then they melt into each other, and into the Oneness. Yet they never go away. They never disappear. They never cease to be. Simply, they change form. And not just once, but several times: from solid to liquid, from liquid to vapor, from the seen to the unseen, to rise again,.. | Wayne W. Dyer |