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| 9be36ab | The intelligent want self-control; children want candy. --RUMI INTRODUCTION Welcome to Willpower 101 Whenever I mention that I teach a course on willpower, the nearly universal response is, "Oh, that's what I need." Now more than ever, people realize that willpower--the ability to control their attention, emotions, and desires--influences their physical health, financial security, relationships, and professional success. We all know this. W.. | Kelly McGonigal | ||
| 6635581 | Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human behavior. . . commonly have more psychological impact than those caused by nature. | just-world psychological-trauma ptsd sense-of-safety trauma-survivors traumatic-experiences traumatized world-view trauma | American Psychological Association | |
| f62d9f8 | On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course there was a police car to apprehend me. A soft answer turnethed away wrath, fortunately. | kindness speeding | Edward Gorey | |
| bf53bc8 | That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook had said she was a quiet-tempered lady, and the housekeeper had said it was the common lot, and the butler had said who'd have thought it, and the housemaid had said she couldn't hardly believe it, and the footman had said it seemed exactly like a dream, they had quite worn the subject out, and began to think their mourning w.. | mourning | Charles Dickens | |
| 72cb070 | I found another girl to pose for Myrto and then I didn't think about Rafaela much, not until a spring day years later. Or rather, I thought about her with an occasional, impersonal pang. Have you ever had a favorite cafe close? It was like that. | Ellis Avery | ||
| 9daf1f9 | Like many of the kids I write about, I once was a runaway myself--and a few (but not all) of the other writers in the series also come from troubled backgrounds. That early experience influences my fiction, no doubt, but I don't think it's necessary to come from such a background in order to write a good Bordertown tale. To me, "running away to Bordertown" is as much a metaphorical act as an actual one. These tales aren't just for kids who .. | writing | Terri Windling | |
| 81b5535 | I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like 's 19th century fairy stories, the fairy poetry of , and 's splendid book . (I think that particular book of hers wasn't published until the 1970s, not long before her death, but she was an English writer popular in the middle decades of the 20th century.) I'm also a big Pre-Raphaelite fan, so I love earl.. | fairy-tales reading folk-ballads folklore influences pre-raphaelite | Terri Windling | |
| fb1b8ff | I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand. It is art that walks perilously close to the Edge, that crosses the river of blood into Faerie, that flies so high it is scorched by the sun, and then returns to tell the tale to us. It is art that | creating artists creative inspirational making | Terri Windling | |
| 572c6d7 | A book can't be a half fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant. | self-deprecating literary-criticism | David Mitchell | |
| f503566 | It's only with mild surprise I find I don't so much read anymore, but rather teeter, wonder, take flight, like Pascal, like Madeline, like Bemelmans, like Lamorisse, like my daughters. Like Robert. Like anyone who has ever started or finished a book, or a love affair, or confused the two, in sweet anticipation of the fall. | library imagination books-reading | Liam Callanan | |
| f3f7060 | Fuck golf anyway. Stupid goddamn game, chasing a ball around a perfectly good cow pasture. | John Sandford | ||
| de935a9 | Now Flowers was arguing the same thing back to him. If Dannon and Carver had killed Tubbs, Lucas wouldn't find out about it except by accident. If justice were to be done, it would have to be extrajudicial. | John Sandford | ||
| cfa9dd6 | Fresh ideas from this group was virtually an oxymoron, Marlys thought, wriggling her butt against the comfortless chair. | John Sandford | ||
| 78e05f8 | Got Hollow Points?" Another said: "Heavily Armed . . . and easily pissed." A third one: "Point and Click . . . means you're out of ammo." | John Sandford | ||
| 313e8a8 | You're saying the media is dangerous, immoral, and antidemocratic? | John Sandford | ||
| 1393e84 | Volvos are fundamentally invisible. | volvos john-sandford michele-cook the-singular-menace funny humor outrage mgg invisible | John Sandford | |
| 8496f0b | Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun. | havoc iffy john-sandford michele-cook the-singular-menace fun outrage mgg | John Sandford | |
| 6c9403a | I was skateboarding on the levee and lost my edges," she said. "You were skateboarding?" She turned and looked at him and shook her head in exasperation: "No, you dummy, I fell. On the ice. On the sidewalk. Like old people do." Virgil: "Oh." She shook her head again. "Jesus wept." | John Sandford | ||
| 13bb201 | We ought to go up north. It'd be nice now, out on the lakes," said the taller one. "It's been too warm. Too many mosquitoes." The tall man laughed. 'Bullshit, mosquitoes. We're Indians, dickhead." | John Sandford | ||
| 4dc8b32 | What Lucas would feel, instead, would be a murderous anger, an iceberg of hate. He would kill anyone who hurt Weather, Sam, or Letty. He'd be cold about it, he'd plan it, but the anger would never go away, and sooner or later, he would find them and kill them. | John Sandford | ||
| 8b2109e | They didn't talk for a while. Johnson popped the top on the second beer, took a long swig, then tossed the nearly full can over his shoulder and down the hill. "Good-bye, old friend," he said. "I'll believe it a year from now," Virgil said. Johnson: "Say, this whole stop-drinking thing . . . it doesn't include margaritas, does it?" --" | John Sandford | ||
| 315c1c7 | Only when we evolved as spirited stallions, with a strong will of our own, would we progress and leave the era of those primitives behind us. | princess-sultana | Jean Sasson | |
| cabc093 | He even whispered in my ear: "You suffer; you will suffer more. But this time I am on your side. You will be free. You will, I promise you." | Henri Charrière | ||
| 31c88ba | we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 604280f | Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it." | Mitch Albom | ||
| f228ed8 | How do we say good-bye to you without saying good-bye to apiece of ourselves? Where do we look for you now? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 611af3d | We could look out our windows and still see your face, still hear your voice on the wind. But where do we look for you now? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 146da4f | This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times-or you will be useless. | life | Mitch Albom | |
| 3efec22 | Here is what I know of love. It changes the way you treat me. I feel it in your hands. Your fingers. Your compositions. The sudden rush of peppy phrases, major sevenths, melody lines that resolve neatly and sweetly, like a valentine tucked in an envelope. Humans grow dizzy from new affection, and young Frankie was already dizzy when he and the mysterious girl descended from that tree. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 816dd61 | The pain you go through in life doesn't really touch you...not the real you... you are so much lighter than you think. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f3d27e0 | But I had never seen her that way. I had never known her as Pauline, the name he parents had given her, or as Posey, the name her friends had given her; only as Mom, the name I had given her. I could only see her carrying dinner to the table with kitchen mitts, or carpooling us to the bowling alley. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 11ff02c | Cinta yang menang. Cinta selalu menang"(hal 42, Selasa Bersama Morrie)" | Mitch Albom | ||
| ee374f4 | you feel like a steel door has been locked; you're banging, but they just can't hear you. And being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. | Mitch Albom | ||
| bf0ce7c | It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. | Mitch Albom | ||
| afdd454 | Going back to something is harder than you think." I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried." | moving-on heartfelt mother | Mitch Albom | |
| 36ab09a | You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does. | artisit writer writing | Mitch Albom | |
| f707353 | Her initial elation had given way to something unexpected: a heightened sadness. Even depression. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b5bd25b | Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do"; "Accept the past as past without denying it or discarding it"; "Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others"; "Don't assume that it's too late to get involved." "Dying, is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy." -- | Mitch Albom | ||
| fde45fa | They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you. | love-story heaven hope inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| cc3b5ea | Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that's the light. | heaven light fear love inspirational | Mitch Albom | |
| 74abf87 | But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. | Mitch Albom | ||
| fbeb134 | Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them--a mother's approval, a father's nod--are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. | Mitch Albom | ||
| adb8406 | Love does not make you a fool. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0433aec | Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. | Mitch Albom |