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| 5325ff3 | The longer we spent on Tarawa the more Sylvia and I came to realize that to live on Tarawa is to experience a visceral form of bipolar disorder. There is the ecstatic high, when you find yourself swept away in a lagoonside maneaba rumbling to the frenzied singing and dancing of hundreds of rapturous islanders. And there are the crushing lows, when you succumb to a listless depression, brought about by the unyielding heat, sporadic sickness,.. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 75eb4b6 | Christopher Hitchens once said that he drinks "because it makes other people less boring." | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 69fcede | Rebecca let out a gusty sigh. "Pregnant, I tell you. I'm definitely getting pregnant." Her mother responded by passing over the tearful little guy. Not a bad idea, Jane decided. Birth control by baby brother" | Christie Ridgway | ||
| dbd6d25 | The last thing you want first-graders thinking is that what they're reading in first grade is as good as books are going to get! | Jim Trelease | ||
| 7a7c2fe | More than nonfiction, fiction forces us to concentrate in order to find meaning, and therefore deepens our engagement and helps comprehension. | Jim Trelease | ||
| 4bc8943 | Wo rkers at the edge of poverty are essential to America's prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed. | David K. Shipler | ||
| 6caafb3 | The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more. | civics patriotic political skepticism | David K. Shipler | |
| ef64aa4 | Time magazine found in a 2000 survey that 19 percent of Americans thought they were in the top 1 percent of wage-earners, and another 20 percent expected to be in the future. "So right away you have 39 percent of Americans who thought that when Mr. Gore savaged a plan that favored the top i percent, he was taking a direct shot at them," wrote David Brooks, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard.3" | David K. Shipler | ||
| e38530a | The struggle to grow makes the vine work harder, extending its roots and absorbing elements that make it produce a more interesting fruit. | Christie Ridgway | ||
| f76b3ef | It takes courage to create your own identity, to stop believing old stories about who you are or that limit who you can be. | Christie Ridgway | ||
| c0a06d8 | Her eyes rounded. "They don't open until eleven." "Unless you're me, and you strike up a conversation with the prep cook who starts work at seven." "Ah." "Get your mind out of the gutter," he said, uncurling his forefinger from around his own cup to point it at her. "His name is George and he has a wife and three kids." "My mind's not in the gutter!" Well, not since she woke from a twenty-minute midnight doze during which she'd imagined her.. | Christie Ridgway | ||
| 69262d6 | Lust was no surprise. Present a man who'd not known a woman in a while with the sight of a naked one, and there was no power on earth that could restrain his cock from rising. But the tenderness in his chest nearly knocked him down. He longed to hold her, to whisper endearments, to kiss away her fears and offer her the protection of his body as well as its need. "Elspeth," he said reverently, as if her name were a prayer. That broke the sp.. | lust naked | Connie Mason | |
| 83364b7 | And what's a healer's touch like?" she asked, working quickly to push the needle through and tie off another knot, closing his wound with each stitch. "Light as a feather. Like this." He moved his hand from her arm to her breast. His fingertips brushed the bared skin above her bodice in teasing strokes. She held herself still, beguiled by the sensation. She'd never have guessed her body would react so to a man. She should be afraid, she kne.. | physical-pleasure sensational touch | Connie Mason | |
| 61b3ab3 | She looked up at him, her eyes enormous. He noticed they were hazel, the sort that picked up whatever hue was near. Now they were the same shade of green as the moss ringing the cavern. | green hazel-eyes shade | Connie Mason | |
| 09790d6 | Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER" | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 9548d84 | In every story, in every life, there are moments of death that take away our name and rename us as strangers, orphans or widows. At the moment of being unnamed, we are thrown into our story. We lose the name Friend and are given the name Reject. | true-self | Dan B. Allender | |
| 34de4ed | The shattering [of shalom] moves us from a place of shalom to a place that is harsh and unrelenting. The shattering brings us a keen awareness that we are alone and in danger. We are on our own. | healing shalom true-self | Dan B. Allender | |
| 9e53c6a | Our story will gain momentum and depth only to the degree that we honestly embrace both loss and fear. | healing true-self | Dan B. Allender | |
| abc0e71 | Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty and the mark of our highest beauty. Our desire completes us as we become One with our Lover, and it separates us from Him and brings death as it wars against His will. | healing shalom | Dan B. Allender | |
| 8a229f9 | you can be assured that the inciting events call for you to sacrifice your comfort and ease in order for your story to move forward. It's easy to ignore such inciting events...It's easy to flee your story. | healing true-self | Dan B. Allender | |
| 984a6c5 | But if we honestly name the passionate desires of our heart, and if we risk seeing those desires come to be, the plot of our life story will begin to move with greater intentionality. Yet the only way we can keep walking on that path is to allow our self moments to rest and celebrate the temporary climax of a story in denouement. | healing true-self | Dan B. Allender | |
| 2f96873 | A new story begins the moment an old one ends. But a denouement is a respite that calls us to stop the journey for a brief interlude - to eat, drink, sing, dance and tell our story to others. | healing | Dan B. Allender | |
| 8aeee82 | Disillusionment takes us to the question: what does it profit a man if he gains this world and loses himself? And disillusionment exposes that while we were supposedly serving the kingdom, we somehow became the king, and when we thought we were following Jesus, we inexplicably made him a servant of our dreams. The only real tragedy is the leader who never allows disillusionment to wear him to a nub and expose the godlessness of his busyness.. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 00cfdad | Sane, reasonable, play-it-safe people are not sufficiently engaged in life to generate great stories. Instead, they sit back and wait for a leader-storyteller to come along and get them caught up in a life worth living. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| fb07bc3 | Time has become a precious commodity and the ultimate scarcity for millions of Americans. A 1996 Wall Street Journal survey found 40% of Americans saying that lack of time was a bigger problem for them than lack of money."6" | Dan B. Allender | ||
| c02c099 | How do we hold the paradox of giving up our life in order to find it? I believe Chesterton is saying that the more we open our heart to both heartache and hope, the more we can look death in the face and say, "Where is your sting?" (1 Cor. 15:55). We must love all that bears the mark of life: the sound of an owl finch and its call that sounds like the meowing of a kitten. We must love Bach, Ethiopian berbere, and the smell of freshly baked .. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 6109dcd | To admit we are foolish, weak, and in need of repentance gives the vindictive and self-righteous camp plenty of ammunition to turn against us and to turn others against our leadership. But the alternatives to living in and living out truth are far worse: we either hide from truth or we choose to spin our sin and our story. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 0b2ffb5 | Repentance is an internal shift | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 0b41f7f | A simple person must be encouraged to see the Christian life as a war, not only with the world, the devil, and the flesh, but with God Himself. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 14be3ad | God is continually, literally, second-by-second covering our sin under His Son's blood and forgiving us our sins. God cannot love us unless He forgives us and cannot forgive us without a commitment to love us. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| fc7439e | God's passion is to rig the world so that we are compelled to deal with whatever blocks us from being like His glorious Son. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| c166277 | The only parameter that is to guide our Sabbath is delight. Will this be merely a break or a joy? Will this lead my heart to wonder or routine? Will I be more grateful or just happy that I got something done? | Dan B. Allender | ||
| bfdf4e8 | Speed is the ultimate defense, the antidote to stopping and really looking. If we really saw what we were doing and who we had become, we feel we might not survive the stopping and the accompanying self-appraisal. So we don't stop, and the faster we go, the harder it becomes to stop. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 8c21ccd | We are not to work on the Sabbath because it takes us out of the play of joy. It is as bizarre as making love to your spouse, but getting out of bed during the process to cut your lawn or wash dishes. Such an offense would do far more than spoil the mood; it would be a direct assault on the integrity of joy, announcing that a mundane chore is more pleasurable than sexual joy with your spouse. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 4676d87 | To be told, "The past is the past and we are new creatures in Christ, so don't worry about what you can't change," at first relieves the need to face the unsightly reality of the destructive past. After a time, however, the unclaimed pain of the past presses for resolution, and the only solution is to continue to deny.3 The result is either a sense of deep personal contempt for one's inability to forgive and forget, or a deepened sense of b.. | Dan B. Allender | ||
| 842ef2f | God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same. | mythology | Iris Murdoch | |
| 07dcb72 | The Beats and the Pranksters showed us different ways of opting out of society. They were both the personification of countercultural movements. The Beats were trying to change literature, and the Pranksters were trying to change the people and the country. Kesey, in fact, was his own cultural revolution, striving to keep the upbeat, freedom-loving spirit of America alive. | beat-poetry ken-kesey pranksters | Sterling Lord | |
| eb464be | Ez nem en vagyok. Ez nem lehet ennekem az arcom. Az se en voltam, aki ezt az arcot eloszor folprobaltam. Se akkor, se most - csak amit az emberek kineznek belolem, ugy nezek ki. Mintha kinezetre sose lettem volna en. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 79f407f | Ha az emberrel kibasznak, akkor igenis joga van orditani. Es mivelunk kibasztak! | Ken Kesey | ||
| 55719a5 | Hell of a life. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Puts a man in one confounded bind, I'd say." McMurphy" | Ken Kesey | ||
| 1bfa406 | he commences to laugh. Nobody can tell exactly why he laughs; there's nothing funny going on. But it's not the way that Public Relation laughs, it's free and loud and it comes out of his wide grinning mouth and spreads in rings bigger and bigger till it's lapping against the walls all over the ward. Not like that fat Public Relation laugh. This sounds real. I realize all of a sudden it's the first laugh I've heard in years. | Ken Kesey | ||
| adccf63 | Ratched shall line us all against the wall, where we'll face the terrible maw of a muzzle-loading shotgun which she has loaded with Miltowns! Thorazines! Libriums! Stelazines! And with a wave of her sword, blooie! Tranquilize all of us completely out of existence. | Ken Kesey | ||
| bc88b89 | If you'll curtail your literary pursuits a moment I'll introduce you to my counterpart and Nemesis; I would be trite and say, 'to my better half,' but I think that phrase indicates some kind of basically equal division, don't you? | Ken Kesey | ||
| 3f7355c | E vilag...az eroseke, baratom! Letezesunk szertartasa azon alapszik, hogy az erosek a gyengeken hiznak. Igy van, tudomasul kell vennunk. Nincs rendben, de meg ez a legjobb megoldas. Fogadjuk el, mint a termeszet torvenyet mirajtunk. A nyulak is elfogadjak kiosztott szerepuket ebben a szertartasban, es erosebbnek ismerik el a farkast. Vedekezesul viszont a nyul ijedos es ravasz, es likat vaj a foldbe, abba bujik, ha a farkas arra csatangol. .. | Ken Kesey |