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| 76f000b | Do teachers go anywhere special when they die?' said Cohen. 'I don't think so,' said Mr Saveloy gloomily. He wondered for a moment whether there really was a great Free Period in the sky. It didn't sound very likely. Probably there would be some marking to do. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c91878c | Sadness] enforces a kind of reflective retreat from life's busy pursuits, and leaves us in a suspended state to mourn the loss, mull over its meaning, and, finally, make the psychological adjustments and new plans that will allow our lives to continue | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 88bd512 | The antidote for mind wandering is meta-awareness, attention to attention itself, as in the ability to notice that you are not noticing what you should, and correcting your focus. Mindfulness makes this crucial attention muscle stronger.12 | Daniel Goleman | ||
| a9c4580 | It's not the chatter of people around us that is the most powerful distractor, but rather the chatter of our own minds. Utter concentration demands these inner voices be stilled. Start to subtract sevens successively from 100 and, if you keep your focus on the task, your chatter zone goes quiet. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| ca9ab72 | Why should caring for others begin with the self? There is an abundance of rather vague ideas about this issue, which I am sure neuroscience will one day resolve. Let me offer my own "hand waving" explanation by saying that advanced empathy requires both mental mirroring and mental separation. The mirroring allows the sight of another person in a particular emotional state to induce a similar state in us. We literally feel their pain, loss,.. | science | Frans de Waal | |
| c020330 | Social rejection--or fearing it--is one of the most common causes of anxiety. Feelings of inclusion depend not so much on having frequent social contacts or numerous relationships as on how accepted we feel, even in just a few key relationships.20 Small wonder that we have a hardwired system that is alert to the threat of abandonment, separation, or rejection: these were once actual threats to life itself, though they are only symbolically .. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 100ca87 | As Erasmus, the great Renaissance thinker, reminds us, "The best hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth." | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 1028bb9 | If there is a remedy, I feel it must lie in how we prepare our young for life. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 3081f71 | Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding." | avoidance avoiding being-nice emotional-intelligence eq truth uncomfortable | Daniel Goleman | |
| 8e714a5 | A system must necessarily be based on premises that by its very nature it cannot question. | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| 51ff431 | The good must be clearly good but not wholly clear. If it is wholly clear it is too easy to reject. | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| cc66c95 | Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is no reason for closing my heart to Job's cry, or to Jeremiah's, or to the Second Isaiah. I do not read them as mere literature; rather, I read Sophocles and Shakespeare with all my being, too. | religious | Walter Kaufmann | |
| bf2d37a | Apples Ma's apple blossoms have turned to hard green balls. To eat them now, so tart, would turn my mouth inside out, would make my stomach groan. But in just a couple months, after the baby is born, those apples will be ready and we'll make pies and sauce and pudding and dumplings and cake and cobbler and have just plain apples to take to school and slice with my pocket knife and eat one juicy piece at a time until my mouth is clean and .. | Karen Hesse | ||
| c5ee073 | It doesn't really matter [if she ever wears the dress], as long as she loves it. She'll wear it a hundred times in her imagination before she even tries it on again. As long as she has the option of wearing it, she'll be happy. | Erin McKean | ||
| 0721b83 | Judgment is harsh and mean and meant to hurt, as if the pain of what we do or say will slap others into our way of believing. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 20e73be | I now understand that our life experiences come forth from our souls and that nothing really happens to us; it all happens for our benefit. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 41649d4 | Honor your own Self. Meditate on your own Self. Worship your own Self. Kneel to your own Self. Understand your own Self. Your God dwells within you as you. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| f0b1711 | The impact of a lack of self-acceptance is intensified in the relationships between and among women. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 3fd7959 | When you spend more time being angry, hurt, and upset about what happened, you pretty much barricade the door of what is possible. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| e67f7d3 | Forgiveness frees the forgiver. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| efec922 | THE REASON YOU KEEP ATTRACTING THE ONES WHO LEAVE IS BECAUSE YOU EXPECT THEM TO DO SO. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 056f9e2 | When did people begin to wear clothing with writing on it? Was this not significant? I visit a beach resort. There is a fellow sitting on the sand and his T-shirt says in bold letters: "Tommy." Is he Tommy? Of course not. Tommy is Tommy Hilfiger, the designer who writes his name all over everything and people buy it. Kate Spade puts her name on a purse and it sells for several hundred dollars. Calvin Klein enhances your underwear with his n.. | Richard Todd | ||
| c73a388 | Plenty of times I've seen writers, famous novelists and essayists, even poets, with names you'd recognize and whose work I admire, drift through these offices on one high-priced assignment or other. I have seen the anxious, weaselly lonely looks in their eyes, seen them sit at the desk we give them in a far cubicle, put their feet up and start at once to talk in loud, jokey, bluff, inviting voices, trying like everything to feel like member.. | Richard Ford | ||
| ffe5e70 | The tourists had money and we needed it; they only asked in return to be lied to and deceived and told that single most important thing, that they were safe, that their sense of security--national, individual, spiritual--wasn't a bad joke being played on them by a bored and capricious destiny. To be told that there was no connection between then and now, that they didn't need to wear a black armband or have a bad conscience about their powe.. | colonialism consumption inequality psychology rich-and-poor social-justice tourism | Richard Flanagan | |
| bee632b | Strike experienced a moment of pure clarity: he would never make it out of here, would never rise above his current position as Rodney's lieutenant, because all the intelligence and prudence and vision came to nothing if it wasn't tempered and supported by a certain blindness, an oblivious animal will that Rodney had, that he, Strike, did not have. Rodney would survive all this not because of his guts or his brains, but because he understo.. | real-life success-secret | Richard Price | |
| 0cbfab7 | Anna stabbed her with the dagger she'd concealed in Tom's jacket. Under the ribs and through the heart--just like her favorite forensic TV show had taught her. | Patricia Briggs | ||
| ab18d8e | Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece--all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round-- more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowe.. | Mark Twain | ||
| 5a455ea | The heart of the problem, I soon came to understand, was that with Pablo there must always be a victor and a vanquished. I could not be satisfied with being a victor, nor, I think, could anyone who is emotionally mature. There was nothing gained by being vanquished either, because with Pablo, the moment you were vanquished he lost all interest. Since I loved him, I couldn't afford to be vanquished. What does one do in a dilemma like that? | Francoise Gilot | ||
| 85dab25 | Pablo's many stories and reminiscences about Olga and Marie-Therese and Dora Maar, as well as their continuing presence just offstage in our own life together, gradually made me realize that he had a kind of Bluebeard complex that made him want to cut off the heads of all women he had collected in his private museum. But he didn't cut the heads entirely off. He preferred to have life go on and to have all those women who had shared his life.. | relationships | Francoise Gilot | |
| 79e2049 | When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that was his personal response to his approaching death. | Ingo F. Walther | ||
| 5a39ffb | Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| ba62e1e | Not only the portraits on the walls, but also the shelves in the library were thinned out. The disappearance of certain books and brochures happened discretely, usually the day after the arrival of a new message from above. Rubashov made his sarcastic commentaries on it while dictating to Arlova, who received them in silence. Most of the works on foreign trade and currency disappeared from the shelves - their author, the People's Commissar .. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 46ecca9 | When I first read The Rebel, this splendid line came leaping from the page like a dolphin from a wave. I memorized it instantly, and from then on Camus was my man. I wanted to write like that, in a prose that sang like poetry. I wanted to look like him. I wanted to wear a Bogart-style trench coat with the collar turned up, have an untipped Gauloise dangling from my lower lip, and die romantically in a car crash. At the time, the crash had o.. | Clive James | ||
| 6680ea7 | O progresso da ciencia, tal como uma antiga trilha no deserto, esta juncado pelos descolorados esqueletos de teorias rejeitadas, que um dia pareceram ter vida eterna. | philosophy-of-science science | Arthur Koestler | |
| 41a7634 | He found out that those processes wrongly known as "monologues" are really dialogues of a special kind; dialogues in which one partner remains silent while the other against all grammatical rules, addresses him as "I" instead of "you", in order to creep into his confidence and to fathom his intentions; but the silent partner just remains silent, shuns observation and even refuses to be localized in time and space." | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 5fec47f | It had a strange resemblance to Kafka's novel,The Trial- that dream-like allegory of a man who,having received a mysterious convocation to attend his 'trial",strives and struggles in vain to find out where the trial would be held and what it would be about; wherever he inquires he receives non - commital,elusive replies,as if everybody has joined in a secret conspiracy:the closer he gets to his aim,the farther it recedes,like the transparen.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| bcda455 | For in a struggle one must have both legs firmly planted on the earth. The Party had taught one how to do it. The infinite was a politically suspect quantity, the `I' a suspect quality. The Party did not | Arthur Koestler | ||
| dc702cf | The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to sp.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 939d4aa | Entirely my own opinion," said Ivanov. "I am glad that we have reached the heart of the matter soon. In other words: you are convinced that "we" - that is to say, the Party, the State and the masses behind it - no longer represent the interests of the Revolution." "I should leave the masses out of it," said Rubashov. [...] "Leave the masses out of it, " he repeated. "You understand nothing about them. Nor, probably, do I any more. Once, whe.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 23b64ba | The deterioration of the intelligentsia is as much a symptom of disease as the corruption of the ruling class or the sleeping sickness of the proletariat. | intelligentsia | Arthur Koestler | |
| bef54ff | In my youth I regarded the Universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which, in our rare moments of grace, we are able to decipher a small fragment. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 0b2140c | Revolutionary theory had frozen to a dogmatic cult, with a simplified, easily graspable catechism, and with No. 1 as the high priest celebrating the Mass. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| eabbd7e | He lived in two modes, the apparent and the veiled, and in two realms, the opera and the sewer, and he shuttled between them like a genie. | Walter Kirn | ||
| eb12f7a | The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them. | Walter Kirn |