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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 157b54d | December 16 Meet the Man Who Turns Down Cookies What man in his right mind turns down warm-from-the-oven chocolate-chip cookies? Ebenezer does. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| cdc15c6 | We certainly would," Cliff said. "Seth's family is waiting for us," Justine told them. "But thanks for the invite." She smiled as Cal came in with another two bags. "And thanks, Cal," | Debbie Macomber | ||
| db84426 | A successful marriage isn't finding the right person, it's being the right person. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 3b60f71 | Men seemed to assume that because they could change their own oil and hook up a TV by themselves, they were naturally superior to women. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 18d78e5 | High-reactive kids also tend to think and feel deeply about what they've noticed, and to bring an extra degree of nuance to everyday experiences. | Susan Cain | ||
| 5efa32a | Now here he was, drunk and sober at the same time. Each half of him disgusted at the other. | Louise Welsh | ||
| 72e8395 | How long would it be before the elements toppled these small structures as they had already toppled the broch and the castle? Would future archaeologists dig here, or had records grown so precise every aspect of the recent past would be charted and ready for those who wanted to know? Maybe, soon enough, there would be no one left, no world to chronicle and argue over. All things must end, why not this too? The thought almost had the power t.. | Louise Welsh | ||
| e4c333b | I turned into Little Red Riding Hood. I made a cake, packed it up and went through the forest until I met the wolves. That's something the story got wrong, wolves don't travel solo, they hunt in packs. | fairy-tales | Louise Welsh | |
| 3f6e9e2 | Abandoned buildings are like abandoned people. They grow bitter and start to keep bad company. | Louise Welsh | ||
| 59f32cf | In view of her present ease, Anais Nin knows that the description of what she was like as a child will be difficult to accept and so will occasion laughter [...] Nin also knows, however, how much we need to believe that such a triumph over handicaps is possible and how much our admiration for an accomplished person can be discouraging rather than encouraging to our own aspirations if we are not reminded of the struggles that preceded that s.. | Evelyn Hinz | ||
| 78b4654 | The darkest prisons were those of the mind. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 43cd5f8 | Because to outwit your rivals, first you had to know their ways and how to play their games. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 2808d7c | All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to warm your body a little, but which burned you to the bone instead. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 2948227 | All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to warm your body a little, but which burned you to the bone instead. Now the ashes are cold, and sometimes you remember that even when your hand was in the flames, you still had a terrible need to thrust it deeper. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 9510008 | The women were active, the men passive, and that made Richenza smile as she absorbed wisdom in that moment. Her grandmother had often been told she did not know her place, but truly she did. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 33dd49c | That springtime does not last forever and that the fine seasons should have their harvest gathered and stored against harsher times. That you should choose your battles wisely. You cannot fight everything and win. Sometimes the price of losing is beyond what you can afford to pay, but that applies to winning as well." She narrowed her focus on the girls. "Be very careful and think before you act. Make friends with those who you know will st.. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 52aa64f | What kind of a promise ? One that only a fool asks of a madman | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| f71ffa8 | When the need is so great, no matter how much love you pour into a bowl, it will never be full. Or sometimes it is damaged, and the love all runs out through the hole in the bottom. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 07ee9c7 | Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, | Susan Cain | ||
| cdbb39c | When the slaughtered Lamb is seen `in the midst of' the divine throne in heaven (5:6; cf. 7:17), the meaning is that Christ's sacrificial death belongs to the way God rules the world. | Richard Bauckham | ||
| 98ee050 | This means that "meeting the current toward elimination of names is the counter current of late development, which . . . gave to simplified matter the verisimilitude of proper names." | Richard Bauckham | ||
| 3e8af4b | That's because top performers overwhelmingly worked for companies that gave their workers the most privacy, personal space, control over their physical environments, and freedom from interruption. Sixty-two percent of the best performers said that their workspace was acceptably private, compared to only 19 percent of the worst performers; 76 percent of the worst performers but only 38 percent of the top performers said that people often int.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 7837950 | you want to make sure that your spouse cares what other people think. It's better to mind too much than to mind too little. | Susan Cain | ||
| 790f03f | Even the brightest, best-meaning teenager doesn't tend to think much beyond the moment, especially when they're with their friends," observes Gerstenfeld. As people grow" | Dashka Slater | ||
| b2cf58e | The proponents of hate-crime laws are liberals, and yet they are the ones who are the biggest critics of mass incarceration," observes James B. Jacobs, director of New York University's Center for Research in Crime and Justice, and an expert on hate-crime laws. "So there are ironies piled on ironies. The remedy here is imprisonment, and prisons are the ultimate incubators of antisocial attitudes." | Dashka Slater | ||
| b97e237 | That's not how the system works. | Dashka Slater | ||
| fbc6108 | On her walls she'd posted the family slogan: Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal. The goals: go to class, get your grades up, graduate, stay out of jail, survive. | Dashka Slater | ||
| 62d779f | Belief and disbelief were the same creature within me. | Lewis Nordan | ||
| 2796954 | Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta. | mississippi traveling | Lewis Nordan | |
| e125da5 | Self-blame is usually a way of avoiding something more hideous anyway, something you're willing to be punished for but unwilling to change, or even something terrible in the imperfect structure of the universe. | Lewis Nordan | ||
| 27594c7 | Aron and a team of scientists have also found that when sensitive people see faces of people experiencing strong feelings, they have more activation than others do in areas of the brain associated with empathy and with trying to control strong emotions. It's as if, like Eleanor Roosevelt, they can't help but feel what others feel. | Susan Cain | ||
| 06ffe1a | Many psychologists would also agree that introverts and extroverts work differently. Extroverts tend to tackle assignments quickly. They make fast (sometimes rash) decisions, and are comfortable multitasking and risk-taking. They enjoy "the thrill of the chase" for rewards like money and status. Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration. They're r.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 4a37ad4 | Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. | flow inspirational | Susan Cain | |
| d322f0d | If you're thinking in more complicated ways," she told me, "then talking about the weather or where you went for the holidays is not quite as interesting as talking about values or morality." | Susan Cain | ||
| d61867d | Parks herself seemed aware of this paradox, calling her autobiography Quiet Strength--a title that challenges us to question our assumptions. Why shouldn't quiet be strong? And what else can quiet do that we don't give it credit for? | Susan Cain | ||
| 41b2059 | Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time. What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent. | Susan Cain | ||
| bc4020f | If this is true--if solitude is an important key to creativity--then we might all want to develop a taste for it. We'd want to teach our kids to work independently. We'd want to give employees plenty of privacy and autonomy. Yet increasingly we do just the opposite. | Susan Cain | ||
| 66c2768 | A menudo creemos que las cosas son de por si grandes o de por si pequenas, y no nos damos cuenta de que lo que llamamos tamano no es sino una relacion entre las cosas. | Bernardo Atxaga | ||
| ab8fd1d | Dr. Hendrix, why do couples have such a hard time staying together?" I thought for a moment and then responded. "I don't have the foggiest notion. That is a great question and I think I'll spend the rest of my career trying to find out." | Harville Hendrix | ||
| 4cb0750 | We have learned over the years of helping couples that just spending quality time talking about each other's pasts can be very helpful. We've seen how effective this can be in our couples' workshops. Years ago, we devoted half the workshop time to helping couples learn more about each other's pasts. Now, we spend a fraction of that time and get the same results. There is a concept informally called woundology, where couples spend too much t.. | Harville Hendrix | ||
| 03fcea2 | In the words of Wordsworth, we come into the world "trailing clouds of glory," but the fire is soon extinguished, and we lose sight of the fact that we are whole, spiritual beings. We live impoverished, repetitious, unrewarding lives and blame our partners for our unhappiness." | Harville Hendrix | ||
| 45b7586 | A man who attended a recent workshop said that "falling in love with my wife made me feel loved and accepted for who I was for the very first time. It was intoxicating." | Harville Hendrix | ||
| 8766287 | Everything was changing, that was obvious. The world was so full of music, it seemed we could never run out. 'Twas bliss in that dawn to be alive, but to be young and overworked and underexposed and stuck in a nowhere town was very heaven. It was our time, the first one we had to ourselves. It was a smashing time, and then it ended, because that's what times do. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 0bb0a12 | Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don't live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous. | Rob Sheffield |