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| 6d27367 | Then it occurred to her (Elizabeth Keckley) that if Tad (Lincoln's son) had been a colored boy rather than the son of a president, and a teacher had found him so difficult to instruct, he would have been ridiculed as a dunce and held up as evidence of the inferiority of the entire race. Tad was bright; Elizabeth knew that well, and she was sure that with proper instruction and hard work, a glimmer of his father's genius would show in him to.. | Jennifer Chiaverini | ||
| 28ff160 | With all the conceptual truths in the universe at his disposal," writes Barbara Brown Taylor, "[Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when he was gone. Instead, he gave them concrete things to do--specific ways of being together in their bodies--that would go on teaching them what they needed to know when he was no longer around to teach them himself . . . 'Do this,' he said--not believe this but do this--'in remembranc.. | Rachel Held Evans | ||
| 8dda44c | being ordained is not about serving God perfectly but about serving God visibly, allowing other people to learn whatever they can from watching you rise and fall. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| c4a2dd1 | If Bible lovers paid as much attention to Leviticus 25 as to Leviticus 18, then we might discover that God is at least as interested in economics as in sex. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 21ea654 | Even when light fades and darkness falls--as it does every single day, in every single life--God does not turn the world over to some other deity...Here is the testimony of faith; darkness is not dark to God; the night is as bright as the day. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 8bdcbc8 | Instead, I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 677978a | We have just enough religion to make us hate one another," Jonathan Swift once observed, "but not enough to make us love one another." | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 1a3b669 | For those willing to keep heaving themselves toward the light, things can change. What has been lost gradually becomes less important than what is to be found. Curiosity pokes its green head up through the asphalt of grief, and fear of the unknown takes on an element of wonder as the disillusioned turn away from the God who was supposed to be in order to seek the God who is. Every letdown becomes a lesson and a lure. Did God fail to come wh.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 1a0bc18 | This is not a how-to book, but if it were, the only instruction would be to become more curious about your own darkness. What can you learn about your fear of it by staying with it for a moment before turning on the lights? Where can you feel the fear in your body? When have you felt that way before? What are you afraid is going to happen to you, and what is your mind telling you to do about it? What stories do you tell yourself to keep you.. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| c24cc7a | After years of being taught that the way to deal with painful emotions is to get rid of them, it can take a lot of reschooling to learn to sit with them instead, finding out from those who feel them what they have learned by sleeping in the wilderness that those who sleep in comfortable houses may never know. | emotional-intelligence emotional-pain emotions emotions-quotes | Barbara Brown Taylor | |
| f86fceb | Whatever I decided to do for a living, it was not what I did but how I did it that mattered. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 0912796 | I always wondered why it took "three days" for significant things to happen in the Bible--Jonah spent three days in the belly of the whale, Jesus spent three days in the tomb, Paul spent three days blind in Damascus--and now I know. From earliest times, people learned that was how long they had to wait in the dark before the sliver of the new moon appeared in the sky. For three days every month they practiced resurrection." | moon resurrection | Barbara Brown Taylor | |
| 6ded1ec | What I know and most of them do not yet is that even people who belong to the same religion do not agree about what they mean when they say 'God. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 7350781 | Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| b04642a | Do you have a body? Don't sit on the porch! Go out and walk in the rain! If you are in love, then why are you asleep? Wake up, wake up! You have slept millions and millions of years. Why not wake up this morning? | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 99194fb | God probably thinks it's worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us. | Allison Pearson | ||
| a2532c9 | My mother thinks some disaster has happened if I don't return a phone call from her within twenty-four hours. It's hard to explain that the only chance to return the call will be when a disaster ISN'T happening, stormy being the prevailing climate with surprise outbreaks of calm. | Allison Pearson | ||
| 60318e9 | No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly. | Allison Pearson | ||
| f213605 | to serve so selflessly, you have to subdue something in yourself. | Allison Pearson | ||
| e846d18 | Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off. | Allison Pearson | ||
| 280ebc6 | From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order... | thoughts | Mervyn Peake | |
| e4a5dd8 | How's the blood-stream, my dear, invaluable little woman? How's the blood-stream?"... "It's quite comfortable, sir...I think, sir, thank you."... "Aha!"..."a comfortable stream, is it? Aha! v-e-r-y good. V-e-r-y good. Dawdling 'twixt hill and hill, no doubt. Meandering through groves of bone, threading the tissues and giving what sustenance it can to your dear old body...I am glad. But in your - right deep down in your - how do you feel.. | humorous nannie | Mervyn Peake | |
| d4eb9ba | Il castello era silenzioso come un mostro impalato. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 83b3b9a | It was as though Cutflower was so glad to be alive that he never lived. Every moment was vivid, a coloured thing, a trill or a crackle of words in the air. Who could imagine, while Cutflower was around, that there were such vulgar monsters as death, birth, love, art and pain around the corner? It was too embarrassing to contemplate. If Cutflower knew of them he kept it secret. Over their gaping and sepulchral deeps he skimmed now here, now .. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 1155d80 | How merciful a thing is man's ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it would have been if all those present could have known what was about to happen within a matter of seconds! For nothing short of pre-knowledge could have stopped the occurrence, so suddenly it sprang upon them. | ignorance premeditation | Mervyn Peake | |
| 081e046 | It was then that the Boy went through his darkest hell of all: the long ache of his body, acute as it was, was yet forgotten or disposed of in some way, for he was filled with a disembodied pain, an illness so penetrating, so horrible, that had he been given the opportunity to die he would have taken it. No normal sensation could find a way through this overpowering nausea of the soul that filled him. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 9a4ed40 | And then he began to laugh in a peculiar way of his own which was both violent and soundless. His heavy reclining body, draped in its black gown, heaved to and fro. His knees drew themselves up to his chin. His arms dangled over the sides of the chair and were helpless. His head rolled from side to side. It was as though he were in the last stages of strychnine poisoning. But no sound came, nor did his mouth even open. Gradually the spasm g.. | spasm | Mervyn Peake | |
| 73404af | I know she'll hate him. She likes to be the only one, you know. She likes to dream that she's queen and that when the rest are dead there'll be no one who can order her to do anything. She said, dear, that she'd burn down the whole place, burn down Goremenghast when she was ruler and she'd live on her own, and I said she was wicked, and she said that everyone was- everyone and everything except rivers, clouds, and some rabbits. She makes me.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| f7ec530 | To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and to shroud it in words. The atmosphere had become a physical sensation. As when, before a masterpiece, the acid throat contracts, and words are millstones, so when the supernaturally outlandish happens and a masterpiece is launched through the medium of human gesture, then all human volition is withered at the source a.. | love lovers middle-age passing-of-time | Mervyn Peake | |
| 19037e2 | Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes. | love | Mervyn Peake | |
| 7c9d449 | He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the floor. | romance | Mervyn Peake | |
| de800a7 | His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| cf1e9b1 | I do not understand your love,' he said. | keda rantel | Mervyn Peake | |
| a47970b | But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land, over the fields of the slain, paced to the rhythm of the blood's red bugles. To be alone and evil! To be a god at bay. What was more absolute? | god rage | Mervyn Peake | |
| 4868d80 | I am your boat! I am your crew Your rudder and your mast - Your friend, I am your limpet too And your elastoplast. - | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 6a52ef4 | Or on retiring to Prunesquallors' he might take down one of the Doctor's many books and read, for these days a passion to accumulate knowledge of any and every kind consumed him; but only as a means to an end. He must know all things, for only so might he have, when situations arose in the future, a full pack of cards to play from. He imagined himself occasions when the conversation of one from who he foresaw advancement might turn to astro.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| a8cbcc3 | Are your goals backed by burning desire or are you giving the Universe mixed signals? | giving goals mixed-signals seek universe | Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy | |
| fbea044 | Your mind is designed in such a way that you cannot have an idea on the one hand without also having the ability to bring that idea into reality on the other. The very existence of an idea in your conscious mind means that you have within you and around you the capacity to turn it into reality. The only question you have to answer is, How badly do you want it? | Brian Tracy | ||
| c2f81de | poeqnkminkMnntgooltausmraapkhluanqnkde, qnknyngtruuvdhvoekaartoempiismrecgooltaurpsqnktdai. | successful wisdom | Brian Tracy | |
| f3b50da | You perform at your highest potential only when you are focusing on the most valuable use of your time. This is the key to personal and business success. It is the central issue in personal efficiency and time management. You must always be asking yourself, What is the most valuable use of my time right now? Discipline yourself to work exclusively on the one task that, at any given time, is the answer to this question. Keep yourself on trac.. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 1e5fdba | The seventh key is that you must have a major definite purpose for your life. You must have one goal that, if you accomplish it, can do more to help you improve your life than any other single goal. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 32c4f15 | When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job. | Brian Tracy | ||
| e7b2ead | the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. | Brian Tracy | ||
| 808ae5a | Ideas are a mode of transportation, a vehicle that you can use to take yourself from wherever you are to wherever you want to go. | Brian Tracy |