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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| a0c4b7e | Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself. | hate jonathan-swift neighbors the-tables-of-the-law | W.B. Yeats | |
| daa8a62 | It is said that an eighteenth-century bishop who read Jonathan Swift's novel threw the book into the fire, indignantly declaring that he didn't believe a word of it. He obviously thought that the story was meant to be true, but suspected that it was invented. Which, of course, is just what it is. The bishop was dismissing the fiction because he thought it was fiction. | Terry Eagleton | ||
| 3177c79 | Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is less well known for his poetry. Swift publish.. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 216713b | Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous .. | conversion convert divine-command-theory divine-right genocide horrors-of-religion killing murder religious-violence | Jonathan Swift | |
| 289b452 | There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either of wit or sublime. | humor jonathan-swift writers writing | Jonathan Swift | |
| 910a47c | When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 61bfdcd | how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavour to do himself honour among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 51ea453 | Who shall give a lover any law?' Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| eab70ef | Be nat wrooth, my lord, though that I pleye. Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd seye! | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| a8552bd | The man who has no wife is no cuckold. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| f8107b6 | Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 8bceb57 | For he would rather have, by his bedside, twenty books, bound in black or red, of Aristotle and his philosophy, than rich robes or costly fiddles or gay harps. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 01b7002 | A 1670 revision of the criminal code found yet another use for salt in France. To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered that the bodies of people who took their own lives be salted, brought before a judge, and sentenced to public display. Nor could the accused escape their day in court by dying in the often miserable conditions of the prisons. They too would be salted and put on trial. Breton historians have discovered that in 178.. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| f7ac06a | Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past. | identity legacy | Mark Kurlansky | |
| 928b7ad | In the Middle Ages, adultery was thought to be a major cause of the herring leaving. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| c5742e1 | The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within a century were speaking a dialect of French and became known as the Normans. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 384d09b | If all poor people refused to fight, he argued, the rich would have no army and there would be no war. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 645bc1b | The Roman army required salt for its soldiers and for its horses and livestock. At times soldiers were even paid in salt, which was the origin of the word salary and the expression "worth his salt" or "earning his salt." In fact, the Latin word sal became the French word solde, meaning pay, which is the origin of the word, soldier." | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 4583044 | As a father, he was generous. More or less. The "less" was because he never gave me what I wanted. He gave me only what he wanted me to have. I found this was often true with philanthropy and with love. The giver's desire and fulfillment played an important role." | Monique Truong |