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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0543da6 | FORGIVENESS IS A SILENT, INTIMATE TEACHER. SHE IS ALWAYS READY TO BRING THE LESSONS YOU NEED, WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO LEARN. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| f06b69f | Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren't built the right way in the first place. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| c652dc9 | Trust is an essential soul need. The psychological injuries and emotional wounds we experience as children affect our soul. When the soul does not develop within the experience of trust, there remains within us a child who is in a constant search for attention, understanding, love, respect, and possibly justice for her abuse or neglect. These needs, when left unmet and unaddressed, will fester and grow into disruptive and/or dysfunctional b.. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| d352a1b | Self-trust is about having an inner voice, being connected to that inner voice, learning how to hear and follow that voice, and doing the personal healing work required to make sure that the voice you hear brings your best interests to the forefront of your mind. Connecting | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 856586f | The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it. The bad news is the same. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| b900f36 | Those whom the devil would tempt, He tells not a lie, but a lesser truth. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| a81667d | Some of us will plant the seed and never see the plant. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 18c8190 | In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms. | faith food religion song | Elizabeth Alexander | |
| 63808b4 | Loss is not felt in the absence of love. | Elizabeth Alexander | ||
| 396b0b7 | It's a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop dead, and how black women are ravaged by HIV/AIDS. The numbers graft to poverty but they also graph to stresses known and invisible. How did we come here, after all? Not with upturned chins and bright eyes but rather in chains, across a chasm. But what did we do? We built a nation, and w.. | blackness death race | Elizabeth Alexander | |
| e7a21c1 | In "The Cost of Discipleship" Dietrich Bonhoeffer makes it clear that grace is free, but it is not cheap. The grace of God is unearned and unearnable, but if we ever expect to grow in grace, we must pay the price of a consciously chosen course of action which involves both individual and group life. Spiritual growth is the purpose of the Disciplines. It might be helpful to visualize what we have been discussing. Picture a long, narrow ridg.. | spirituality | Richard J. Foster | |
| 2e57d33 | Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so? I wrote at the time ( , October 5, 1998) that Osama bin Laden 'hopes to bring a "judgmental" monotheism of his own to bear on these United States.' Chomsky's recent version of this is 'considering the grievances expressed by people of the Middle East region.' In my version, then as now, one confronts an enemy who wishes ill to our .. | al-shifa-pharmaceutical-factory despotism emotion islam islamic-terrorism middle-east monotheism noam-chomsky osama-bin-laden propaganda religion september-11-attacks terrorism the-nation theocracy united-states war war-crimes | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 6904e8e | The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time. | creationism religion religious-fundamentalism science stupidity | Gary Malone | |
| d2495c5 | Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices. | big-government car-alarms cars law mayoralty-of-michael-bloomberg michael-bloomberg pettiness tyranny | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 38b76ed | Fuck off," some of them seem to be yelling at coalition forces. A lot hinges on the appropriate military response. "Fuck you" might be risky. "OK, off we fuck, then" might buy some valuable time." | very-dirty-word | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 290a950 | Would you have wished more, or fewer, anarchists around in the Thousand Year Reich or any of the other fantasies of hierarchy? | hierarchy nazi-germany | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 7d454ae | Playing pool with Korean officials one evening in the Koryo Hotel, which has become the nightspot for foreign businessmen and an increasing number of diplomats (to say nothing of the burgeoning number of spies and journalists traveling under second identities), I was handed that day's edition of the . At first glance it seemed too laughable for words: endless pictures of the 'Dear Leader'--Little Boy's exalted title--as he was garlanded by.. | casinos diplomacy espionage journalism kim-jong-il koryo-hotel north-korea north-korea-and-wmd north-korean-famine pool propaganda prostitution prostitution-in-north-korea pyongyang serbia serbian-election-2000 the-pyongyang-times united-states | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 92d71a7 | One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed. | Tom Clancy | ||
| 4740d3f | We wait. No sense spooking him. We let him come in nice and close while we do our famous imitation of a hole in the water, | Tom Clancy | ||
| 1dd04b5 | A wise man knows his limitations.' And a bold one seizes opportunities. | Tom Clancy | ||
| cdc81b8 | In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition. | norman pablo-picasso picasso | Norman Mailer | |
| 286bdaf | Recognizing Pablo Picasso in a train compartment, a man inquired of the artist why he did not paint people "the way they really are." Picasso asked what he meant by that expression. The man opened his wallet and took out a snapshot of his wife, saying, "That's my wife." Picasso responded, "Isn't she rather small and flat?" 5" | Rosamund Stone Zander | ||
| 733b4ea | Every jump of technical progress leaves the relative intellectual development of the masses a step behind, and thus causes a fall in the political-maturity thermometer. It takes sometimes tens of years, sometimes generations, for a people's level of understanding gradually to adapt itself to the changed state of affairs, until it has recovered the same capacity for self-government as it had already possessed at a lower stage of civilization.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 4e4f542 | Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| a4550cf | Only once did he remark when the starter,which he was trying to open,literally fell to pieces in his hands,:'If you would write for those filthy boulevard papers,monsieur,you could soon buy a Chevrolet'(which was quite unture:In France the prostitutes of the pen were just as badly rewarded as their colleagues on the street corners). | Arthur Koestler | ||
| ef57832 | Oi anthropoi den einai sunekheia dustukhismenoi para mono sta kaka muthistoremata* sten pragmatikoteta einai polu apaskholemenoi. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 4b9806a | It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him,six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling. Soon it would be over. But when he asked himself, For what actually are you dying? he found no answer. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 64900ea | There were so many who wished to speak. For the movement was without scruples; she rolled towards her goal unconcernedly and deposed the corpses of the drowned in the windings; such was the law of her being. And whosoever could not follow her crooked course was washed on to the bank, for such was her law. The motives of the individual did not matter to her. His conscience did not matter to her, neither did she care what went on in his head .. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| fcc1024 | You long for a windfall that will let you quit and pursue your great hobby | Walter Kirn | ||
| f8e8b5b | The atom was split by persistence. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 0165ceb | It's the little deceptions that no one catches that are going to dissolve it all someday. We'll look at clocks and we won't believe the hands. They'll forecast sun but we'll pack our slickers anyway. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 67c1681 | Liars are exhausting people. | Walter Kirn | ||
| a61343a | Frustration comes from fighting your own momentum. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 5bd7111 | Literature had torn Tessa and me apart, or prevented us from merging in the first place. That was its role in the world, I'd started to fear: to conjure up disagreements that didn't matter and inspire people to act on them as though they mattered more than anything. Without literature, humans would all be one. Warfare was simply literature in arms. The pen was the reason man invented the sword. | Walter Kirn | ||
| 5ed9aff | All of life's conflicts are between letting go or holding on, opening into the present or clinging to the past, expansion or contraction. | Cheri Huber | ||
| 35f2067 | The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans. | Kohta Hirano | ||
| d6bf770 | Alucard never dies. He only fades away... | Kohta Hirano | ||
| 9cdab82 | Everything in this world is about conflict because this is the kind of world that humans are born into. | Kohta Hirano | ||
| e865323 | Rabindranath Tagore put it gently to a Western audience in New York in 1930: 'A great portion of the world suffers from your civilisation.' Mahatma Gandhi was blunter: asked what he thought of Western civilization, he replied, 'It would be a good idea'. 'The | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 7f59df7 | History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in itself and for its own successes and transgressions. The | Shashi Tharoor | ||
| 775cf44 | An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a second Partition: and a partition in the Indian soul would be as bad as a partition in the Indian soil. For my sons, the only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts. An India neither Hindu nor Muslim, but both. That is the only India that will allow them to continue to call themselves Indians. | minority partition religions | Shashi Tharoor | |
| 1c9595e | Upon Good Earth, lay the body down, open the mouth wide, let song rush through. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| db5c400 | Because joy and life exist nowhere but the present. | Maxine Hong Kingston | ||
| 95eb29a | Deny accidents and wrest fault from the stars. | Maxine Hong Kingston |