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| 633405f | The guy who was punching me was a lot burlier than I was, so it hurt plenty. But I tried to pretend it didn't bother me at all, that I actually liked it. It was hard to do this convincingly, because he had kind of knocked the wind out of me there, so all I could do was smile and wink and give him the thumbs up while I waited to be able to breath again. He thought I was making fun of him and started punching me in the stomach harder. Meanwhi.. | John Swartzwelder | ||
| 77e2260 | The next day, a dead turtle was left on my doorstep as a warning. I couldn't figure out as a warning for what, and I guess whoever was watching me picked up on that, because the next morning there was another dead turtle, but this one had several sheets of paper glued to it's back leg. The pieces of paper contained a long footnoted explanation of all the symbolism involved. It didn't make a lot of sense to me. The turtle was the "turtle of .. | John Swartzwelder | ||
| 3e55a42 | Adam was sent to bring Good News to the world. It was his mission, as it was the mission of Jesus. Adam was--very simply, quietly, and uniquely--there! He was a person, who by his very life announced the marvelous mystery of our God: I am precious, beloved, whole, and born of God. Adam bore silent witness to this mystery, which has nothing to do with whether or not he could speak, walk, or express himself, whether or not he made money, had .. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 40a6c24 | This cry for mercy is possible only when we are willing to confess that somehow, somewhere, we ourselves have something to do with our losses. Crying for mercy is a recognition that blaming God, the world, or others for our losses does not do full justice to the truth of who we are. At the moment we are willing to take responsibility, even for the pain we didn't cause directly, blaming is connected into an acknowledgement of our own role in.. | loss mercy | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| b5e6f41 | The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion. | solitude | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 2c52726 | I am less likely to deny my suffering when I learn how God uses it to mold me and draw me closer to him. I will be less likely to see my pains as interruptions to my plans and more able to see them as the means for God to make me ready to receive him. I let Christ live near my hurts and distractions. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| ee09bf0 | When I look through God's eyes at my lost self and discover God's joy at my coming home, then my life may become less anguished and more trusting. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 5f9e3cc | But human withdrawal is a very painful and lonely process, because it forces us to face directly our own condition in all its beauty as well as misery. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| bee037b | Celebration belongs to God's Kingdom. God not only offers forgiveness, reconciliation, and healing, but wants to lift up these gifts as a source of joy for all who witness them. In all three of the parables which Jesus tells to explain why he eats with sinners, God rejoices and invites others to rejoice with him. "Rejoice with me," the shepherd says, "I have found my sheep that was lost." "Rejoice with me," the woman says, "I have found the.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 6ccbf6f | We will encounter great obstacles and splendid views, long dry deserts and shadow-rich trees. We will have to fight against those who try to attack and rob us. We will also make wonderful friends. We will often wonder if we will ever make it, but one day we will see coming to us the One who has been waiting for all eternity to welcome us home. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 0bc8101 | Percayalah bahwa pada suatu saat cinta akan menaklukkan dirimu sehingga bagian dirimu yang paling menakutkan sekalipun akan membiarkan cinta mengusir semua ketakutanmu | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| a8ced17 | Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people's response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule. You have to close yourself to the outside world so you can enter your own heart and the heart of God through your pain. God will send to you the people with whom you can share your anguish,.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 16f3621 | Living out this spiritual fatherhood requires the radical discipline of being home. As a self-rejecting person always in search of affirmation and affection, I find it impossible to love consistently without asking for something in return. But the discipline is precisely to give up wanting to accomplish this myself as a heroic feat. To claim for myself spiritual fatherhood and the authority of compassion that belongs to it, I have to let th.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 4fe6411 | Thus, our brokenness can become a gateway to new life. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 7523cf6 | I witness many signs of hope. I don't have to wait until all is well, but I can celebrate every little hint of the Kingdom that is at hand. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| fe571b1 | Community, then, cannot grow out of loneliness, but comes when the person who begins to recognize his or her belovedness greets the belovedness of the other. The God alive in me greets the God resident in you. When people can cease having to be for us everything, we can accept the fact they may still have a gift for us. They are partial reflections of the great love of God, but reflections nevertheless. We see that gift precisely and only o.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| e986798 | We want to transcend our history without actually confronting it. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 50eec7b | now this warm thought of greatness is a big chill in the wind--for | Jack Kerouac | ||
| bdc233a | the loneliness...the "inexpressibly delicious" sensation of this memory - for as memories are older they're like wine rarer, till if you find a real old memory, one of infancy, not an established often tasted one but a brand new one, it would taste better than the Napoleon brandy Stendhal himself must have stared at..." | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 6cc97c0 | If you believe in democracy, are you not thereby obliged to accept, without discrimination, the fall-outs that come with a democratic choice, even if this means the termination of the democratic process itself? | democracyy | Wole Soyinka | |
| e168b4d | Today, the constituency of fear has become much broader, far less selective | Wole Soyinka | ||
| 637e844 | Don't just do something. Stand there. --Rochelle Myer | David Allen | ||
| 9c0deba | Getting things done requires two basic components: defining (1) what "done" means (outcome) and (2) what "doing" looks like (action)." | David Allen | ||
| ef120ed | Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. --Saint Francis of Assisi | David Allen | ||
| 66d8b06 | When people know they have a process in place to handle any situation, they are more relaxed. When they're relaxed, everything improves. More gets done, with less effort, and a host of other wonderful side effects emerge that add to the outcomes of their efforts and the quality of their life. | David Allen | ||
| 57c0707 | David: And you think it can just evaporate? Even if at one time they loved one another? Marx: That's one of the sad truths of existence. Nothing in this world is permanent. Even the characters created by the great Shakespeare will, in millions of years, cease to exist--when the universe runs its course and the lights go out. | love | Woody Allen | |
| da1db08 | To succeed consistently, good managers need to be skilled not just in choosing, training, and motivating the right people for the right job, but in choosing, building, and preparing the right organization for the job as well. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 9a24700 | First, disruptive products are simpler and cheaper; they generally promise lower margins, not greater profits. Second, disruptive technologies typically are first commercialized in emerging or insignificant markets. And third, leading firms' most profitable customers generally don't want, and indeed initially can't use, products based on disruptive technologies. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 8894227 | One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year. | health-care medicare | Clayton M. Christensen | |
| 90a947c | I genuinely believe that relationships with family and close friends are one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. It sounds simple, but like any important investment, these relationships need consistent attention and care. But there are two forces that will be constantly working against this happening. First, you'll be routinely tempted to invest your resources elsewhere--in things that will provide you with a more immediate payoff.. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| e8a35ae | When commercializing disruptive technologies, they found or developed new markets that valued the attributes of the disruptive products, rather than search for a technological breakthrough so that the disruptive product could compete as a sustaining technology in mainstream markets. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| eed660b | In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder. There's an old saying: find a job that you love and you'll never work a day in your life. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| e2afc2a | How could the wind be so strong, so far inland, that cyclists coming into the town in the late afternoon looked more like sailors in peril? This was on the way into Cambridge, up Mill Road past the cemetery and the workhouse. On the open ground to the left the willow-trees had been blown, driven and cracked until their branches gave way and lay about the drenched grass, jerking convulsively and trailing cataracts of twigs. The cows had gone.. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| fb037ff | I would bear it for her if I could. | pain philosophy wasted-time wishing | Penelope Fitzgerald | |
| 4179da7 | I have read Lolita, as you requested. It is a good book, and therefore you should try to sell it to the inhabitants of Hardborough. They won't understand it, but that is all to the good. Understanding makes the mind lazy. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| aa9de2d | A film can be undermined by the person you're seeing it with, there in the dark, a ripple effect of attitude, scene by scene, shot by shot. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 74630e7 | No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 0bf3254 | P.J. said, "That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know." "Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it." "Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others." | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 2559e82 | A hero can be fool, he's still a hero. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 3f97fc2 | Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone. Alone, alone! But there is happiness in alone, if you believe you have chosen it. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 6f6074c | The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't want to put restraints on "robber barons"-he might become one one day!" | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 8cb6107 | Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around the neck? A noose? What's 'morality' but what other people want you to do, for their own, selfish, unstated purposes? | eros morality | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 4f1a691 | No American sport or activity has been so consistently and so passionately under attack as boxing, for "moral" as we'll as other reasons. And no American sport evokes so ambivalent a response in its defenders: when asked the familiar question "How can you watch . . . ?" the boxing aficionado really has no answer. He can talk about boxing only with others like himself." | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 172687d | In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood. | Joyce Carol Oates |