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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dd5830b | No amount of riches can compensate for an inner feeling of poverty. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 114c93e | When we shift out of a lower to a higher energy pattern, we create a protective shield on the energetic level, as it were, and we can no longer be psychically vulnerable to that other person. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 59c7946 | The love of God is absolute and unconditional. The sky does not "be" for some people and "not be" for others, nor does the sun shine on only a select few who have been arbitrarily chosen. God is complete and total." | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 25f87c8 | When we truly love something and, thereby, become one with it, it is because we see its intrinsic perfection. In fact, its "faults" are part and parcel of its perfection, for all that we see in the universe is in the process of becoming. In that process, its perfect evolution is part of that perfection. Thus the half-unfolded flower is not an imperfect flower that needs defense. On the contrary, its blossoming is proceeding with precise per.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 18ec8f7 | And, so, there's the ebb and flow. If you are at this one point of the cycle, there's no use in crying about it because the cycle will cycle itself out. By surrendering to whatever is cycling up, it eventually disappears. You disappear it by choosing to be one with it and refusing to want to change it as it arises. Do this continuously, no matter what, nonstop. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| f058167 | If you use a wolf to hunt a wolf, keep two arrows near to hand. | Elaine Cunningham | ||
| f4563fe | Please understand that we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. | William Manchester | ||
| c622760 | A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a Zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife's bed is a cause of the gravest concern. | William Manchester | ||
| e0b7ad2 | John Kennedy once remarked that "victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan." | William Manchester | ||
| 93ef60f | There was nothing green left; artillery had denuded and scarred every inch of ground. Tiny flares glowed and disappeared. Shrapnel burst with bluish white puffs. Jets of flamethrowers flickered and here and there new explosions stirred up the rubble. | fear marines war | William Manchester | |
| f19c410 | How about it, Skywalker? Will you still fight for me after we've been married for twenty-odd years?" "What do you mean by 'still'? You do your own fighting. If I forget that, I'm not likely to survive until our twentieth anniversary." Mara & Luke" | Elaine Cunningham | ||
| 29445d2 | I am speaking of something deeper. I am speaking of everything a being can give another. This is what I offer you. I offer myself. | love | Jude Watson | |
| 2d4d011 | I know that the chances for success are slim. [...] But odds are mathematical formulas calculated to give people a reason not to try. | Jude Watson | ||
| a489770 | You do not recognize what truth is, so you call it a trick. That is why you are not wise, Jenna Zan Arbor. Wisdom is something you cannot identify because you cannot measure it with your instruments. - Qui-Gon Jinn | star-wars wisdom | Jude Watson | |
| fe950e5 | She knew now that the trick to being brave was not thinking of the worst thing that could happen. It was a weird thing -- if you acted brave, you could almost feel brave. | Jude Watson | ||
| 14345a5 | Pony eyed the pitcher of hot fudge sauce Nellie had placed on the table. "And if you pass that pitcher, I will reveal a nugget of information that will please you and instantly return me to your good goddess graces." Nellie pushed the pitcher forward. "Spill. Not the fudge sauce. The info." | nellie-gomez pony pun | Jude Watson | |
| e9e3266 | Theme. It's something a lot of writers don't like to think about. It brings up painful memories of high school English class ("Write a 1,000 word essay on the theme of The Great Gatsby, and be sure to relate the green light on Daisy's dock with the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. Due tomorrow.")" | James Scott Bell | ||
| a0150f4 | The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 46513e6 | Given a choice between patterns of subsistence that are relatively unfavorable to the cultivator but which yield a greater return in manpower or grain to the state and those patterns that benefit the cultivator but deprive the state, the ruler will choose the former every time. The ruler, then, maximizes the state-accessible product, if necessary, at the expense of the overall wealth of the realm and its subjects. | centralization economics free-market taxation | James C. Scott | |
| 4441342 | We must never assume that local practice conforms with state theory. | James C. Scott | ||
| c9e858a | The utopian, immanent, and continually frustrated goal of the modern state is to reduce the chaotic, disorderly, constantly changing social reality beneath it to something more closely resembling the administrative grid of its observations. | James C. Scott | ||
| fbbe3b9 | New World escape crops made the economics of escape as tempting as its politics. Colonial officials tended to stigmatize cassava and maize as crops of lazy natives whose main aim was to shirk work. In the New World, too, those whose job it was to drive the population into wage labor or onto the plantation deplored crops that allowed a free peasantry to maintain its autonomy. Hacienda owners in Central America claimed that with cassava, all .. | James C. Scott | ||
| 5cc82e9 | Nothing could be further from the truth. All identities, without exception, have been socially constructed: the Han, the Burman, the American, the Danish, all of them. Quite often such identities, particularly minority identities, are at first imagined by powerful states, as the Han imagined the Miao, the British colonists imagined the Karen and the Shan, the French the Jarai. Whether invented or imposed, such identities select, more or les.. | James C. Scott | ||
| 8451165 | No whiskey, no religion, nothing. | noir-fiction | Charles Willeford | |
| 95098a6 | Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world that there isn't. There'll always be a few of us in America in every generation. Because only a great country like America can produce men like me. I'm not a thinker, I'm a doer. | Charles Willeford | ||
| 1b7be53 | It is a funny thing. A man can make a promise to his God, break it five minutes later and never think about it. With an idle shrug of his shoulders, a man can break solemn promises to his mother, wife or sweetheart, and, except for a slight momentary twinge of conscience, he still won't be bothered very much. But if a man ever breaks a promise to himself he disintegrates. His entire personality and character crumble into tiny pieces, and he.. | Charles Willeford | ||
| fa711dd | a man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance. | happy-playgrounds | Charles Willeford | |
| 7106e3f | So what I'm getting at is this. Okay, maybe it's cold in the grave. Maybe you come out of the light and you think, Fuck your mother, this is bad. This is worse than anything I would have guessed. But the trick is to clench your teeth, get a running start and dive. When I hit that other country, from whose bourne no traveller back-pedals, I'm going to be moving fast. I'm gambling that the first ten seconds or so will be the worst. | Mike Carey (Author) | ||
| 9889dc9 | Even at its worst, there are tiny holes in the midnight canopy of my bad luck. | Mike Carey | ||
| 576412c | My mum's getting married," said Cheryl. "Again. At the Brompton Oratory. Fourth time around the track, this is. They don't say 'Till death us do part' for my mum; they say 'Who's holding ticket number twenty-three?" | Mike Carey | ||
| 9ec0b0f | Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached | Mike Carey | ||
| c9d5030 | If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man. MARK TWAIN | Stanley Bing | ||
| 93bee75 | The truth is your servant, not your master. What is the truth, anyway? Does any of us really know what's true? And is truth an absolute? Can't things be sort of true? A little bit true? True in a deeper sense? True enough for military work? True for me, not for you? All too true? | Stanley Bing | ||
| 6e60d2c | Solve problems, don't create them. A huge number of very dislikable people have this aggravating habit of either creating problems they can then solve to the acclaim of the multitudes, or blowing up the size of issues and then handing them off to others. Try to not do that. | Stanley Bing | ||
| f1700a6 | You get the picture. The marvelous thing about the human ego is that each one is slightly different. Deep inside you, there's an enormously objectionable force yearning to leap forth and spew toxic goo all over the place. Let it flow! | Stanley Bing | ||
| eb05a5d | Today we will tackle the rudiments of getting people to buy the thing you're selling. This is the heart of all activity of any kind in the human sphere. Along with the opposable thumb, this capacity--to sell others something they perhaps did not even know they wanted--is what separates Homo sapiens from its ancestors. Cows do not sell each other hay when they are hungry. Monkeys do not sell each other bananas. Only human beings can create t.. | Stanley Bing | ||
| dbd4d70 | As adults, these kids are mostly what you'd expect. Low IQ and poor cognitive skills. Problems with forming attachments, often bordering on autistic. Anxiety and depression galore. The longer the institutionalization, the worse the prognosis. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 6ecb485 | Subjected to enough uncontrollable stress, we learn to be helpless--we lack the motivation to try to live because we assume the worst; we lack the cognitive clarity to perceive when things are actually going fine, and we feel an aching lack of pleasure in everything. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| b411835 | It takes surprisingly little in terms of uncontrollable unpleasantness to make humans give up and become helpless in a generalized way. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 01c42ff | Eyes often have an implicit censorious power.22 Post a large picture of a pair of eyes at a bus stop (versus a picture of flowers), and people become more likely to clean up litter. Post a picture of eyes in a workplace coffee room, and the money paid on the honor system triples. Show a pair of eyes on a computer screen and people become more generous in online economic games. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| e8b5b11 | This is the critical point of this book: if you are that zebra running for your life, or that lion sprinting for your meal, your body's physiological response mechanisms are superbly adapted for dealing with such short-term physical emergencies. For the vast majority of beasts on this planet, stress is about a short-term crisis, after which it's either over with or you're over with. When we sit around and worry about stressful things, we tu.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 52a9bd8 | Memory can be dramatically disrupted if you force something that's implicit into explicit channels. Here's an example that will finally make reading this book worth your while--how to make neurobiology work to your competitive advantage at sports. You're playing tennis against someone who is beating the pants off of you. Wait until your adversary has pulled off some amazing backhand, then offer a warm smile and say, "You are a fabulous tenn.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 7387eaf | A final depressing point about inequality and violence. As we've seen, a rat being shocked activates a stress response. But a rat being shocked who can then bite the hell out of another rat has less of a stress response. Likewise with baboons--if you are low ranking, a reliable way to reduce glucocorticoid secretion is to displace aggression onto those even lower in the pecking order. It's something similar here--despite the conservative ni.. | Robert M. Sapolsky | ||
| 779ed78 | Testosterone makes people cocky, egocentric, and narcissistic. | Robert M. Sapolsky |