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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 890e9c9 | On either side of them the essence of honky tonk beach resort had now enclosed them: gas stations, fried clam stands, Dairy Treets, motels painted in feverish pastel colors, mini golf. Larry was drawn two painful ways by these things. Part of him clamored at their sad and blatant ugliness and at the ugliness of the minds that had turned this section of a magnificent, savage coastline into one long highway amusement park for families in sta.. | americans | Stephen King | |
| 1e06441 | Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand; The Trojan Hearse; A Deadly Shade of Gold; Conjure Wife; Rosemary's Baby; Silverlock; King Conan. He'd packed books not to entertain, nor even to illustrate philosophies of life, but to rebuild civilization. | Larry Niven | ||
| f5fe047 | Bad or good, movies nearly always have a strange diminishing effect on works of fantasy (of course there are exceptions; The Wizard of Oz is an example which springs immediately to mind). In discussions, people are willing to cast various parts endlessly. I've always thought Robert Duvall would make a splendid Randall Flagg, but I've heard people suggest such people as Clint Eastwood, Bruce Dern and Christopher Walken. They all sound good, .. | Stephen King | ||
| f610137 | You may hold my tears and live as you did before, trusting your soul to no one. Or you may release my tears and accept what comes. | Elizabeth Lowell | ||
| cc1cb88 | Recently, as I was teaching this concept, a CFO--who deals with numbers all the time--came up to me and said, "This is fascinating! I've always seen trust as a nice thing to have, but I never, ever, thought of it in terms of its impact on economics and speed. Now that you've pointed it out, I can see it everywhere I turn. "For example, we have one supplier in whom we have complete trust. Everything happens fast with this group, and the rela.. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 083e40f | The principle is simply this: We tend to get what we expect--both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| e87ec47 | Low trust causes friction, whether it is caused by unethical behavior or by ethical but incompetent behavior (because even good intentions can never take the place of bad judgment). Low trust is the greatest cost in life and in organizations, including families. Low trust creates hidden agendas, politics, interpersonal conflict, interdepartmental rivalries, win-lose thinking, defensive and protective communication--all of which reduce the s.. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| 4431fdd | The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. --MAHATMA GANDHI | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| c94f783 | A woman of intense feeling, head thrown back, hair wild, lips open upon a cry of unbelievable pleasure. The enchanted. A warrior both disciplined and passionate, his whole being focused in the moment. The enchanter. Now he is bending down to her, drinking her cries ..... | Elizabeth Lowell | ||
| 5282241 | Yes," Nicholas replied, in a bored voice. "The name is Dutch. Dragonwyck, meaning place of the dragon. It derives from an Indian legend about a flying serpent whose eyes were fire and whose flaming breath withered the corn." "Heavens!" With a light laugh, Miranda asked her new employer if the red men had sent forth a champion to do battle with the dragon. The patroon's face was dark, unsmiling. "To appease him the wise men of the tribe sac.. | Anya Seton | ||
| c36c01b | You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that if you left two men together in a lonely place they would quarrel, but if you left three men, two of them could always grumble to each other about the third, and then they would be quite happy. | Joan Aiken | ||
| e95454e | I wish I were a bird. I'd fly all the way up to the clouds and look down on this place, and then I'd go far away and never come back. | amanda-quotes bird fly jason-medina kings-park kings-park-psychiatric-center kings-park-state-hospital tribal-publications tribal-publications-inc xlibris | Jason Medina | |
| 104ab4f | By the time she awoke she couldn't even remember if she had a dream or a nightmare. There had only been a deathlike peace. | amanda awoke building-122 death deathlike dream dreams group-2 hospital jason-medina kings-park kings-park-psychiatric-center kings-park-state-hospital kppc kpsh nightmare peace psych-ward sleep | Jason Medina | |
| 0978c6c | What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward, the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer, and not the West they spend their lives in. What really interests me is how two such unlike particles clung together, and under what strains, rolling downhill into their future until they reached the angle of repose where I knew them. That's where the interest is. That's where the meaning will be if I find any. | past relationships research | Wallace Stegner | |
| 69a050c | Scary thought - what if I get to know myself and I'm someone I don't want to be? | Susan Wiggs | ||
| d00eecb | That if you never get your hopes up," she said, taking a sip of hot chocolate, "you'll never be disappointed." "Ouch," | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 3222ff8 | Already, Seattle is taking hold of her. She still holds Sedona in the dry tan of her skin and in her hair, but the fine mist of the Northwest is making its way to places she didn't know were parched. | hotel-angeline mystery novel | Susan Wiggs | |
| e50a33a | She reflects on the girl she had been in this place, and the things she had to do in order to survive. For a long time, she'd had to live her child- hood backward, forced to step up and take charge of things that were thrust into her hands. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| c685040 | Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped. | love | Susan Wiggs | |
| 7d246bc | He could not name precisely the special quality she possessed. A glow. An exuberance. An aggressive and determined joy that gave her the courage to push past his defenses, to confront him with unflinching courage, to look into his heart and to see something there worth fighting for. | love | Susan Wiggs | |
| c427523 | The best way to keep from stumbling over the past was to move forward, | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 6860106 | This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned beetles, flitting hummingbirds and sapphire dragonflies. The sun-warmed sweet haze of the blossoms filled the air. "When I was a kid," said Isabel, "I used to capture butterflies, but I was afraid of the bees. I'm getting over that, though." The bees softly rose and hovered over the flowers, their steady hum .. | bubbie butterflies eva-johansen flowers insects isabel-johansen magnus-johansen memory nature-s-beauty summertime | Susan Wiggs | |
| 18b5cb6 | You need not hate them, for that hurts you too,' she explained. 'It is sufficient to laugh at them. | Michelle Lovric | ||
| 409547d | Fair and unfair are for children | fairness life-lessons maturity reality | Michelle Lovric | |
| 4b80f1f | I knew him the least well, understood him scarcely at all, felt uneasy in his presence, and yet perhaps in a strange way loved him more deeply than any. | Susan Hill | ||
| 68ce77c | I felt dead and sick inside. | sick | Susan Hill | |
| bed0887 | I did not look about me, though sometimes I glanced up into the great bowl of the night sky and at the constellations scattered there and the sight was comforting and calming to me, things in the heavens seemed still to be aright and unchanged. But nothing else was, within me or all around. I knew now that I had entered some hitherto unimagined - indeed, unbelieved-in - realm of consciousness, that coming to this place had already changed m.. | Susan Hill | ||
| adca160 | Present us with a silver cup for something when you're a filthy rich lawyer, I dare say? Yes. You'll be a lawyer. Magnificent memory. Sense of logic, no imagination and no brains. | Jane Gardam | ||
| c81cd46 | But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old men forget--or tend to reminisce, and reminisce falsely and sententiously as a rule. We are often very silly in our middle years but we tend to improve | Jane Gardam | ||
| bac1e6e | you will recognize happines when you see it die | Georges Bataille | ||
| 22eb910 | If there is a conclusion it is zero. | Nick Land | ||
| 585c0e5 | Developmental trauma occurs when "emotional pain cannot find a relational home in which it can be held."1 In retrospect, I can see that this was the case for" -- | Mark Epstein | ||
| 656bdf2 | In demonstrating this, the Buddha was making an important example for the ages. For almost no one is exempt from trauma. While some people have it in a much more pronounced way than others, the unpredictable and unstable nature of things makes life inherently traumatic. What the Buddha revealed through his dreams was that, true as this may be, the mind, by its very nature, is capable of holding trauma much the way a mother naturally relates.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 0fb0216 | Having released the wartime images he was carrying in his unconscious, he became worried that he would now be at their mercy, plagued by them in day as well as by night. But what he found was just the opposite. While he did retrieve the horrible images, he rediscovered a lost innocence as well. The beauty of the jungle, the glistening white sands of the Vietnamese beaches, and the intense greens of the rice paddies at dawn all filtered back.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 07ffe0c | A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just about stillness end up sitting very silently up to their necks in their own shit. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 35b5a66 | In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 72e9f7f | the Buddha may well have been the original psychoanalyst, or, at least, the first to use the mode of analytic inquiry that Freud was later to codify and develop. | Mark Epstein | ||
| b49b8b2 | When we stop distancing ourselves from the pain in the world, our own or others, we create the possibility of a new experience, one that often surprises because of how much joy, connection, or relief it yields. Destruction may continue, but humanity shines through. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 6dcf97e | The self is a mystery. In our efforts to pin it down or make it safe, we dissociate ourselves from our complete experience of whatever it is or is not. | Mark Epstein | ||
| a6cff1a | His efforts were always in the service of releasing people from their fixed ideas about who or what they were, about freeing them from attachment to whatever concept they were clinging to, about loosening the hold that the fear-based ego claimed as its birthright. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 8822dd0 | T]he form that an animal's subjective experience takes will be a property of the internal computer model. That model will be designed, in evolution, for its suitability for useful internal representation, irrespective of the physical stimuli that come to it from outside. Bats and we need the same kind of internal model for representing the position of objects in three-dimensional space. The fact that bats construct their internal model with.. | consciousness evolutionary-psychology intelligence qualia | Richard Dawkins | |
| df2295c | dr dny admhyy hstnd khh nmydnh tlsh dr npdhyrftn tkhml drwyny drnd. bh nZr myrsd anh bh sh grwh tqsym myshwnd, anhyy khh bh dlyl mdhhby mykhwhnd tkhml drwG bshd. anhyy khh dlyly bry nkhr tkhml nmyybnd m bh dlyl sysy y `tqdy mfhwm ntkhb Tby`y r Zlmnh w dwr z nSf mydnd y grysht njdprstnh anh b tkhml nszgr st w dr akhr anhyy khh b mkhlft mytwnnd hyhw yjd khnnd w brnmhhy mrdmpsnd khwby thyh khnnd. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 9c3e83b | bh qwl lwy'ys bwnwy'l, fylmsz shhyr spnyyy, "khd w myhn tym shkhstnpdhyry r tshkhyl mydhnd khh hmhy rkhwrdhy srkhwb w khwnryzy r myshkhnd." | Richard Dawkins | ||
| c4875a1 | I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me. | science | Richard Dawkins |