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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1ca2d0b | its easy to talk about things we hate, but sometimes its hard to explain exactly why we like something" -Anna" | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 46cd0ad | A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man". | Man | ||
| ce0ae68 | The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. | Aldous Huxley | ||
| 7d363fa | Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. | Aldous Huxley | ||
| c528b4f | other words we humans seek to outwit and control each other not just because of some tangible goal in the outside world that we're trying to achieve, but because of a lift we get psychologically. This is the reason we see so many irrational conflicts in the world both at the individual level and at the level of nations. | James Redfield | ||
| cfb0184 | The movement of this energy, if we can systematically observe it, is a way to understand what humans are receiving when we compete and argue and harm each other. When we control another human being we receive their energy. We fill up at the other's expense and the filling up is what motivates us. Look, I must learn how to see these energy fields. | James Redfield | ||
| d290710 | Planinski vrhunci su posebna mjesta koja mogu dati energiju svakome tko boravi na njima. | live-an-extraordinary-life | James Redfield | |
| 81d0f6e | Energy doesn't come to us so much from the things around us-- although we can absorb energy directly from some plants and | James Redfield | ||
| 03559e1 | It's not that they knew what you were doing exactly. They could feel what you were feeling, and as the lie you were contemplating brought you down, they felt that drain themselves, and thus became more confused and unclear---which was an unconscious signal to them that something was wrong, and that you were probably up to no good. So they backed away. | James Redfield | ||
| 32ba889 | Tithing is a way to right the ship quickly. Instead of spending every dime, deny yourself a little and save ten percent of your income one month. Then just wait for an intuition of whom to give it to. You'll get one. Someone who needs an angel will cross your path, and you'll get the thrill of having the means to be of service. And again, it will just accelerate the flow of help coming back to you. You'll get more opportunities to be succes.. | James Redfield | ||
| c00766e | Al actuar y ser como eres ahora, estas determinando la forma de ser y actuar de los demas. | society yourself | James Redfield | |
| 659a832 | After all, you have grown accustomed to having an authority in your life to define reality, and without that external direction you feel confused and lost. | James Redfield | ||
| 86bd105 | An interrogator is another kind of drama. People who use this means of gaining energy, set up a drama of asking questions and probing into another person's world with the specific purpose of finding something wrong. Once they do, then they criticize this aspect of the other's life. If this strategy succeeds then the person being criticized is pulled into the drama. They suddenly find themselves becoming self-conscious around the interrogato.. | James Redfield | ||
| 09f1619 | In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable. | James Redfield | ||
| dcaaedf | He paused, thinking, so Dobson asked again that we sit | James Redfield | ||
| fb17d0e | How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can't slow down? They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live | James Redfield | ||
| 2c492fe | And with that, he was gone, leaving me alone. Only I wasn't alone. In fact, I knew I would never be alone again. | James Redfield | ||
| a59617a | They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live. | James Redfield | ||
| 01a8a2f | Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to the people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves | James Redfield | ||
| ee857c8 | hedonism. | James Redfield | ||
| 98ed6d6 | It's like there is a huge balance scale in the sky, weighing the relative strength of two opposing fields of Influence. One side represents those opening to a higher personal spirituality, and thus acting to lift others into that consciousness. The other side of the scale represents those who are still stuck in fear and anger, who are acting to pull people down into a simmering, untruthful fear and rage." The statement hit me hard. That mea.. | James Redfield | ||
| 9307fbd | reconciliation of views | James Redfield | ||
| 3d291e7 | That's the incredible high we all call being "in love." Unfortunately, once they expect this feeling to come from the other person, they cut themselves off from the energy in the universe and begin to rely even more on the energy from each other - only now there doesn't seem to be enough and so they stop giving each other energy and fall back into their dramas in an attempt to control each other and force the other's energy their way. At th.. | James Redfield | ||
| 3ddebba | Do you see how preoccupied everyone has been? This perspective explains a lot. How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can't slow down? They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live. | James Redfield | ||
| 2ae122a | When we renounce our fear of life and give up trying to have it under our control--that is, when we acknowledge our contingency and utter dependence on God--then God comes to us and turns us toward Himself. | Donald Spoto | ||
| c09f463 | It concerns the point at which courage is the logical and sometimes the only possible outcome of integrity. | Donald Spoto | ||
| d89f2dd | Less is more" was one of Meisner's mantras. "Silence has myriad meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning." Most of all, Meisner urged his students to think of acting a role as "living truthfully under given imaginary circumstances." | Donald Spoto | ||
| a9216ad | Whenever anyone uttered a word against gay men or women, Grace was outspoken. "You shouldn't criticize people who are homosexual," she told her friend Prudy Wise. "It can be very destructive, and it is so easy to become mean without realizing it." | Donald Spoto | ||
| c554311 | I always tell actors not to use their face for nothing. Don't start scribbling on the paper until you have something to write. | Donald Spoto | ||
| d7c5a50 | The idea of Christian perfection, which began in the ancient monasteries and spread to the world as an ideal, is one of the most appealing, demanding and ultimately hopeless notions of the spiritual life. By definition, only God is perfect--that is, complete and independent unto [God's] self. Humans, on the other hand, are radically imperfect, and that, paradoxically, is welcome news, for the recognition of our incompleteness throws us on t.. | community mercy perfection spirituality | Donald Spoto | |
| 3affb1d | she began to choose her own projects, Marilyn | Donald Spoto | ||
| 442be36 | She had an understanding about people, and compassion--she didn't talk about it, but you heard how she spoke and saw how she behaved. | Donald Spoto | ||
| 53ee55f | Grace was tough and strong--mentally, emotionally and physically--and she cut through a lot of the nonsense. Hollywood was like a game for her. She was also a good businesswoman, and this allowed her to win in her struggles with MGM. She knew how to play the corporate game, and she played it so that it worked for her. | Donald Spoto | ||
| 48ed2e6 | All I want is my own name and a modest job to buy sugar for my coffee! You can't believe it, can you--you can't believe that a woman has to be crazy-out-of-her-mind to live alone--in one room--by herself! (He grips her arm, but she resists him.) GEORGIE. Why are you holding me? I said--you are holding me! Her eyes are suddenly wild with rage and desire. He kisses her "fully on the mouth," according to the stage directions, before they step.. | Donald Spoto | ||
| e6b9c25 | Decades later, we do not watch her as a movie star playing at or around a role, nor are we conscious of her gestures, her slight raising of the eyebrows, the sudden drop of her voice. We do not observe an "artiste" struggling to impress. Grace Kelly, the beautiful actress, disappears when we watch Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl; we see only the real weariness of a woman almost out of strength, almost empty of feeling--except that her fee.. | Donald Spoto | ||
| 250b4f4 | But she never distanced herself from others, and she was enormously friendly to everyone--no stuffy attitude, no star complex. As for her talents, Grace acted the way Johnny Weissmuller swam or Fred Astaire danced--she made it look easy. And she probably went through life being completely misunderstood, since she usually said exactly what she meant. | Donald Spoto | ||
| e169aa4 | I put it to him bluntly: 'Look here, Oleg--you're a charming escort, but in my opinion you are a very poor risk for a marriage.'" And then Margaret Kelly said something that might have turned Grace's resentment into loud laughter: "Of course I never interfere, even when I do not approve." | Donald Spoto | ||
| 8ac9991 | In the climactic moments of that spiritual testament to Hitch's own soul, Scottie (James Stewart) confronts Judy (Kim Novak) about her exploitative lover, who turned her into the replica of another woman: "He made you over, didn't he? He made you over just like I made you over--only better. Not only the clothes and the hair, but the looks and the manner and the words. Did he train you? Did he rehearse you? Did he tell you exactly what to do.. | Donald Spoto | ||
| ecd719f | The gravity of Kennedy's condition was not detailed in the daily press, but the news traveled in New York society. When Kennedy's condition improved slightly, Grace sent a note to Jackie, asking if she could visit the hospital. Mrs. Kennedy thought this was a marvelous idea, and she invited Grace to arrive wearing a nurse's uniform, for Jack had complained that all the nurses were homely old crones. Grace arrived to find a platoon of bustli.. | Donald Spoto | ||
| 287ab8f | And what of Joan's presence among so many young, armed men? Perhaps of all the nobles and military men, the Duke of Alencon - that dedicated, courageous and skillful commander - may be trusted most. Although he was a man who had a keen eye for attractive and available women, he too recognized a rare quality of sincere devotion that deflected any tendency to make sexual overtures. 'Sometimes I lay down to sleep with Joan and the soldiers,' A.. | Donald Spoto | ||
| e686d54 | What Joan impressed on the men by her faith and her actions, then, had more to do with the things of God that the machinery of war or prevailing politics. For her the struggle against English occupation and the eventual permanent establishment of French sovereignty were matters of justice, and justice was regarded as a major virtue in the Middle Ages. From justice came the origins of chivalry, which was about much more than mere courtesy: i.. | Donald Spoto | ||
| 0f9982a | However we assess the relief of the siege of Orleans and the subsequent successes in the Loire Valley, the military proficiency of the French shocked the English to the point that French victory now seemed almost inevitable. If the English had learned that the French had new materiel or a brilliant new commander, they might have been able to devise counter procedures. But they had underestimated everything, from the loyalty evoked by Joan's.. | Donald Spoto | ||
| 769755c | Joan's claim that God had France in HIs care because France was sacred to him may not be merely a medieval trope, embarrassingly old-fashioned language that today we must expunge from our vocabularies. To claim that France is sacred does not imply that only France is sacred. Throughout history, men and women have arisen everywhere who testify to the sacredness of nations. Perhaps today more than ever, we are aware that the identity and inte.. | Donald Spoto | ||
| d146c70 | About this time, Joan's parents made formal arrangements with a family who had an eligible son, to whom Joan was soon engaged. We know little of this episode in her life--neither the identity of the matrimonial match nor the precise date the ensuing fracas occurred. According to custom, the engagement did not require Joan's permission or approval; nor, it seems, was she introduced to her fiance before the pact was settled. At the time, girl.. | Donald Spoto |