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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 63b031d | The first wave of flying creatures dived on the air pods. The cameras caught and recorded the images. They looked reptilian, with grayish, scaled skin. They had delta-shaped wings that spanned at least ten meters, short, sleek bodies and elongated heads with rows of pointed teeth. Carnivores, definitely. | Stephani Danelle Perry | ||
| 615ddb1 | now, and it's not the one that | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 9124511 | No. You do not get to choose how others love you. All you can do is honor their choice if they bless you with their love." She" | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 61d6dee | Whatever happened to the good old days, when a man was in charge and the women just made sandwiches all nice and quiet in the kitchen?" Nash barked a laugh, slapping Gus on the back. "I think they went the way of floggings at high noon, my man. As in kaput." | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 78fc0e1 | That was what it took me some time to see the snow falling in the window at the end of the bar. Whispers rose among the guests, they pointed to the street. Their heads turned in a reverent row. Thin shards of truffle drifted down and disappeared into the tagliatelle. "Finally," said Nicky, and replaced the truffle. He leaned back on the bar, wearing a handsome, self-satisfied smile. "You never forget your first snow in New York." The first.. | Stephanie Danler | ||
| eefa32c | Brandy L Rivers | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 1025c23 | The thing is, Ian, life is too short. Not only is it brief, but it's full of so many hard things that there's never a time to breathe or recover. So, when you get a moment like this, you have to drink it into your soul to sustain yourself when all that's around you is darkness." She sighed. "I was so stressed down there that I forgot about slowing down and appreciating each moment that I have. This moment is a blessing, and I need to notice.. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 921e760 | Love." She said the word as if she'd never heard it before. "What would I do with love?" "I don't know. Enjoy it?" She sighed. "It's too dangerous to enjoy. It's kind of like sucking on a poisonous thorn and trying to enjoy the flavor. Not that easy." | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| fc5906a | Crud. What was she supposed to do? Protect herself or the pretzels? | humor dilemmas pretzels | Stephanie Rowe | |
| b161292 | Too much hope breaks you," she replied, unable to keep the ache out of her own heart. "If you believe too much, the crash is too hard--" | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 04a57fe | Mine to you. Yours to me. Bonded by blood, by spirit and by soul, we are one. No distance too far, no enemy too powerful, no sacrifice too great. I will always find you. I will always protect you. No matter what the cost. I am yours as you are mine. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 9eceec5 | Pussy-Kat seemed to have a penchant for shoes, and the ones she'd been wearing yesterday--which appeared to be the same ones on the film--were in a box on the top row. He slipped a pen through an ankle strap and lifted it for a closer look. They were fairly new, the matte leather barely creased at the stress points. The American size ten meant nothing to him, but he could tell it was a large shoe. But then again, Pussy-Kat was a woman of ge.. | Stephanie Bond | ||
| 5dc73ee | You will get in touch with your emotions if I have to carve them out of you. You give the angel what she wants. Now. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 4d089c6 | The Ability to Love New People | Mary Pipher | ||
| 44393d1 | No one owns me," she said. "No one. No matter what binds me. No matter what shackles hold me. No matter what I am compelled to do. I am the only one who holds my heart." | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 6991c6b | And he wanted to march right in there and do it again. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 4577896 | Via our machines-- be it phone, television, or computer-- we receive an enormous amount of information every day. But we don't have the time, the energy, and the emotional resilience to deal with all of this information. We do triage as best we can, but we still are flooded with more stimulation than we can process and integrate. Still, many people are hooked. Scientists have discovered that every time we hear the blip or ding of an e-mail .. | Mary Pipher | ||
| fa4d692 | It is difficult to convince humans to act when the payoffs are uncertain while the sacrifices are substantial and immediate. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 9125f9d | As a general rule, I don't talk long to climate change deniers. From sad experience I have learned that it is impossible to change their minds. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 98fc871 | The cure for the pain is the pain. Unprocessed pain almost always leads to something much worse than pain. Opening ourselves up to our emotional reactions to that world and allowing ourselves to feel the gamut of emotions that opening inevitably produces is the beginning of a movement toward wholeness and healing. This can produce energy, focus, and a sense of urgency. To quote Bob Dylan, "Behind every beautiful thing is some kind of pain." | Mary Pipher | ||
| eb15e7b | In the Western consciousness, emotion has had a bad rap as the opposite of reason and good judgment. But psychological and neurological research reveal that emotion is the primary organizing force for human beings. | Mary Pipher | ||
| d1bfcb8 | One of our most effective coping skills is simply sticking together. In a 2011 New Yorker article called "Social Animal," David Brooks writes, "Research over the past thirty years makes it clear that what the inner mind really wants is connection . . . Joining a group that meets just once a month produces the same increase in happiness as doubling your income." | Mary Pipher | ||
| 0779db5 | Children are a great aid in both stress reduction and joy production. | Mary Pipher | ||
| abaf434 | If you want to know the time, ask a dog. They always know, and they'll tell you the correct time, which is now, now, now. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 94e4521 | What I find most sustaining is what I loved as a girl: lying down on my back and looking at the sky. That is my first memory and I hope it is my last. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 1f85650 | Visiting with other human beings may be one of the most ancient healing tonics. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 45c58b1 | Children are also effective at influencing others. Many times in the last few years, I have witnessed children's letters and testimony touch and influence hard-boiled politicians in ways that adults cannot. Politicians are people, too, and they have children and grandchildren. An articulate and earnest child who asks only for a sustainable world can soften their hearts. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 24e7fe5 | This pivotal experience taught Mitch that to participate in a democracy, you must show up, meet people, and volunteer. It doesn't work to wait to be discovered. | Mary Pipher | ||
| b0d593b | when people come together, they can accomplish more than they can by individual actions. With this transformation from "me" to "we," the wind picks up, the sails fill, and the boat is off. . . Media coverage tends to focus on one person and doesn't point out that the heroine of a story has the support of a small group behind her." | Mary Pipher | ||
| 115ba87 | Coalition members learned to make our points via stories. It is impossible to argue with a story that simply reflects the experience of the storyteller. People like stories and remember them. They create emotions that are essential to motivation and action. Emotions, not facts, are what energize humans to act. Our best stories were about our own inconsistencies and failings or about our own emotional struggles with the issue. | Mary Pipher | ||
| b4e25fb | This bittersweet phenomenon of a successful event paired with no discernible political gain seemed to be a chronic problem for our group. However, we were experiencing a victory that could not be taken away from us. That is, we were by now a transcendent, connected community. We were learning that relationships always trump agendas, and that a good process is sustaining, regardless of outcome. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 52b43a9 | As we go about our troubled and sometimes frenzied lives, in this time of the Great Acceleration, we have close at hand ways we can move out of the time zone of our current century and into a transcendent experience. We can do this by simply recognizing our kinship with another living being, by finding one beautiful thing to enjoy, or by allowing ourselves to be swept away emotionally by the miraculous and intricate world we have all around.. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 7d5f946 | I do it for the relationships. I like to spend my time with people who are trying to make the world a fairer, kinder place. I've been in groups like this since college, and they have made me happy. | Mary Pipher | ||
| d02353e | Too many people only dream at night. I like to dream during the day. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 2505841 | I also try not to evaluate myself in terms of the results of my actions. Rather, I focus on the quality of my interactions and the joy I feel every day. | Mary Pipher | ||
| e45f84a | Good Moral Character | Mary Pipher | ||
| 78ee448 | Healing the earth is not a liberal or conservative idea-- it is a form of prayer. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 706e99f | inadequate. Most do not help students with what they need most--a sense of meaning regarding their sexuality, ways to make sense of all the messages, and guidelines on decent behavior in sexual relationships. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 172ab90 | W. S. Merwin . . . traced our attitude of dominion to the beginnings of agriculture. He argued that settling down in permanent places gave us the "illusion of possession." That fateful moment in our hominid history set us up for our downfall." | Mary Pipher | ||
| 6486468 | One example of this is the way the world community dealt with the hole in the ozone layer caused by fluorocarbons. This alarming problem, documented by solid evidence, had to be solved for life on earth to continue. And it was. In 1978, governments and businesses worked together to eliminate fluorocarbons in aerosol cans and other products. Today the hole in the ozone layer is disappearing. Scientists believe it will be back to its ideal le.. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 17c539d | Working together, we were experiencing what Nelson Mandela called "the multiplication of courage." | Mary Pipher | ||
| 4b5c76b | Awareness is an important step in the healing process, but we need not feel conscious of our global problems all the time. Most of the time, we can live "as if" the world we know will long continue. Constructive awareness allows us to think about our global storm when we have an opportunity to make choices about our behavior." | Mary Pipher | ||
| d67f1c4 | Monique once told me, "It is the driven of the world who have the hardest lives. They don't see their families or have time to enjoy a garden or a bedtime story. They may have money and prestige, but they are poor. True wealth for our family means the time to be patient and loving with each other, time to rest and play, and a sense that we are doing what we can to be good citizens of the earth." | Mary Pipher | ||
| 75604b5 | Monique said, "Not having to rush is the greatest luxury an American can experience these days." | Mary Pipher |