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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 24749f7 | Most of us met when we were in our vigorous thirties and forties. We were smart, energetic, and moving up. But now our energy was abating and we weren't moving up anymore. Our conversations were about health, vacations, retirement, and grandchildren. | Mary Pipher | ||
| e10e765 | We wither, sag, wrinkle, crinkle, tatter, and become marked by life's events. Time and gravity, air and water wear us down, each into a unique and precious beauty, every bit as beautiful as a landscape or plant weathered by the seasons." --Stephanie Sugars" | Mary Pipher | ||
| ae32d5f | Dear sisters, I hope that we can experience bliss. I want us to sense how big life is--how intense, joyful, painful, complicated, and beautiful our lives can be. Let us embrace everything. This can be our rescue as we navigate this last stretch of the river with its treacherous currents, quicksand, deep clear waters, and silver sunsets. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 564bcb5 | Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can ... across the bridge that was built by your own | Mary Pipher | ||
| 4251f3e | desire to heal. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 408f6e4 | Resilience is built by attention and intention. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 77fc2b3 | We can take responsibility for our attitudes and focus on our strengths and our joys. | Mary Pipher | ||
| cecbbca | Sleeping beside a purring cat is the equivalent of three glasses of wine. Note: I just made that up, but, based on my experience, it seems about right. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 853e964 | This book focuses on the attitudes and skills we need in order to let go of the past, embrace the new, cope with loss, and experience wisdom, authenticity, and bliss. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 26727e8 | As long as we can do most of what we want to do, we are young-old age. When our health fundamentally changes the way we live, we have entered old-old age. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 90456b4 | The kinder you are to them the longer they last." Another woman asked, "What are you referring to?" Then, one by one, the rest of us chimed in, "Your knees," "Your bank account," "Your swimsuit," and "Your husband." How do we" | Mary Pipher | ||
| c112ac6 | Whether or not we have a family, we need to live interdependently with others. Our growth depends on interaction: isolation is the quickest path to stagnation. | Mary Pipher | ||
| a622c66 | Suffering gives us empathy, while happiness gives us hope and energy. | Mary Pipher | ||
| ac3793e | We are the daughters of time, the children of mothers who fed us, rocked us, sang us songs, and kept us safe. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 141d3ba | realized that the prayers had all been answered. Not by anything I did, nor necessarily by anything that happened to the people I was praying for, but rather because time had made those particular problems irrelevant. I was in a different era now. I had new problems | Mary Pipher | ||
| 9816e96 | we accept our grandchildren for the unique beings they are. This acceptance gives them the confidence to feel they are worthy of the deep love they are given. It helps them see the universe as safe. | Mary Pipher | ||
| ebb49ce | certain respect for resilience and the indefatigable nature of hope. Looking back on our own lives, we can see an endless cycle of crisis and growth. | Mary Pipher | ||
| cc6bea6 | how did I choose my friends, what did I feel passionate about, what books I enjoyed and why, and what did I think my talents were? | Mary Pipher | ||
| 343f1ed | Great personal suffering can sometimes deepen our souls to the point they crack open and let in great beauty. | Mary Pipher | ||
| c4c932e | My definition of wealth has varied across the years | Mary Pipher | ||
| 8ad802c | Building a good day is about making good choices involving our emotions, thinking, and behavior. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 64301df | Older people could see themselves as part of a circle of caring that begins with our oldest living relatives and flows down to the youngest baby. | Mary Pipher | ||
| c620d05 | Unless carefully managed, a physical disability can become a social and emotional one. I didn't want to spend my life maintaining my health--I wanted to be fully alive and engaged with the world. I | Mary Pipher | ||
| 78220c5 | When clients focused on positive sensory memories, they often pictured their summer vacation on a beach or the aroma of their grandmother's cooking or the sound of music on a city street. These memories helped them put their pain from the past in perspective. | Mary Pipher | ||
| a73c4c9 | This life stage requires a constant process of adjustment and accommodation | Mary Pipher | ||
| 12f5100 | toward our seventies, our bones, shape, vision, sense of smell and taste, and even our teeth change. We react differently to medications. We don't tolerate the cold as well. As our skin thins, we bruise more easily and our cartilage deteriorates. We struggle with our balance and coordination. Everything seems to droop and sag. | Mary Pipher | ||
| deebe1c | When you give up speed, you open up time. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 46e9324 | psychic dismemberment," which is the loss of our identity, our ways of thinking, and our sense of self." | Mary Pipher | ||
| 0b156b4 | One of the secrets of happiness is having a host of activities that we can enjoy when we are alone. The more we can do this, the more likely we are to enjoy our lives as we age. | Mary Pipher | ||
| f635762 | Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can ... across the bridge that was built by your own desire | Mary Pipher | ||
| d2c26ef | Self-awareness allows us to separate our own needs and desires from those of others. We can ask over and over again, "What part of this interaction is about me? What part of this situation is not about me?" | Mary Pipher | ||
| 67f2cd5 | happiness correlates with reasonable expectations. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 9234123 | When they shook the box and poured out its chances, you were appointed to be happy. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 8665fb6 | Developmental psychologist Bernice Neugarten made this distinction between young-old age and old-old age. As long as we can do most of what we want to do, we are young-old age. When our health fundamentally changes the way we live, we have entered old-old age. | Mary Pipher | ||
| c4cd754 | Happiness seekers are unhappy when they don't get what they want. Meaning seekers can survive negative events. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 87decea | I think the idea of simply "enduring to the end" is a terrible philosophy and an awful way to live one's life. How you spend your days is how you live your life, and if you're spending them "enduring" anything then you're doing it wrong." | joy life | James A. Owen | |
| e7fbdfe | Un om trebuie judecat atunci cand a dat din el tot ceea ce era de dat, cand nu mai poate sa-si puna esecurile pe seama defectelor si cand se bazeaza pe propria putere pentru a izbandi. | James A. Owen | ||
| 95dc85e | Aceia care uita trecutul sunt blestemati sa-l repete, dar cei care-si amintesc viitorul pot sa se pregateasca pentru orice.,, | James A. Owen | ||
| 68a4d49 | Haosul poate fi ordonat, flacarile pot fi stinse, imperiile se pot ridica si destrama. Lucrurile adevarate vor ramane mereu si te vor indruma intotdeauna sa-ti atingi telurile.,, | James A. Owen | ||
| b928b3a | A sign in a pottery store in England announced, "Please let us know if you break any item, so we can forgive you." | Alan Cohen | ||
| 99f1908 | Our culture has more to gain from inner stillness than incessant pushing. | inner-stillness inspirational spirituality-quotes | Alan Cohen | |
| c72c9e9 | All your past except its beauty is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing. | Alan Cohen | ||
| b9053bf | newspaper ads for lost pets and earthquakes that soon follow. Other studies indicate a higher rate of last-minute cancellations for airplane flights that crash. While we may be tempted to look outside ourselves for advice, we are all quite brilliant and know a lot more about our path and destiny than we recognize. | Alan Cohen | ||
| 369a40a | Needless to say, the song ["Hallelujah"] was now a climax in every show [of the 2009 Leonard Cohen tour], received like holy scripture. It belonged in a category with seeing Bob Dylan sing "Like a Rolling Stone" or watching Bruce Springsteen perform "Born to Run"--it was an event that people simply wanted to witness, to say they had seen. It took on a power that had to do with the song's history first, its feeling second, and its details ha.. | 2012 bob-dylan bruce-springsteen hallelujah leonard-cohen magnum-opus-quotes | Alan Light |