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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c6441a1 | walking contradiction. | Dan Harris | ||
| 3162377 | The pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness. | Dan Harris | ||
| 394cf14 | You're indestructible, Preacher. I fully expect that forty or fifty years from now, you'll still be | William W. Johnstone | ||
| 15181b3 | Thoughts calcify into opinions, little seeds of discontent blossom into bad moods, unnoticed back pain makes me inexplicably irritable with anyone who happens to cross my path. | Dan Harris | ||
| cba8f7e | The Way of the Worrier 1. Don't Be a Jerk 2. (And/But . . .) When Necessary, Hide the Zen 3. Meditate 4. The Price of Security Is Insecurity--Until It's Not Useful 5. Equanimity Is Not the Enemy of Creativity 6. Don't Force It 7. Humility Prevents Humiliation 8. Go Easy with the Internal Cattle Prod 9. Nonattachment to Results 10. What Matters Most? | Dan Harris | ||
| 7e5638b | We are in the midst of a momentous event in the evolution of human consciousness, but they won't be talking about it in the news tonight. --Eckhart Tolle, self-help guru | Dan Harris | ||
| 30b247f | research shows that "firm but kind" is the smarter play. People trained in self-compassion meditation are more likely to quit smoking and stick to a diet. They are better able to bounce back from missteps. All successful people fail. If you can create an inner environment where your mistakes are forgiven and flaws are candidly confronted, your resilience expands exponentially." | Dan Harris | ||
| 98608d1 | Striving is fine, as long as it's tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final outcome is out of your control. If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. When you are wisely ambitious, you do everything you can to succeed, but you are not attached to the outcome--so that if you fail, you will be maximally resilient, able to get up, dust your.. | Dan Harris | ||
| ce47d9e | Ignorance is not bliss. | Dan Harris | ||
| 3578bc8 | Unlike many of the faiths I'd come across as a religion reporter, the Buddha wasn't promising salvation in the form of some death-defying dogma, but rather through the embrace of the very stuff that will destroy us. The route to true happiness, he argued, was to achieve a visceral understanding of impermanence, which would take you off the emotional roller coaster and allow you to see your dramas and desires through a wider lens. Waking up .. | Dan Harris | ||
| 8333e27 | Buddhists were always talking about how you have to 'let go,' but what they really meant is 'let it be. | Dan Harris | ||
| 5c8c1b9 | It seems like you're saying that there is a self-interested, or selfish, case for being compassionate?' 'Yes. Practice of compassion is ultimately benefit to you. So I usually describe: we are selfish, but be wise selfish rather than foolish selfish. | Dan Harris | ||
| 2aac494 | Repeat the following phrases: May you be happy, May you be healthy, May you be safe, May you live with ease. Do this slowly. Let the sentiment land. You are not forcing your well-wishes on anyone | Dan Harris | ||
| a2bc8e3 | Most of one's own troubles, worries, and sadness come from self-cherishing, self-centeredness.' But don't we need to be somewhat self-centered in order to succeed in life?" "Self-cherishing, that's by nature," he said (by which I assumed he meant it's "natural"). "Without that, we human beings become like robots, no feeling. But now, practice for development of concern for well-being of others, that actually is immense benefit to oneself." .. | Dan Harris | ||
| d33ed1c | once you unburden yourself from the delusion that people are deliberately trying to screw you, it's easier to stop getting carried away. | Dan Harris | ||
| c980b52 | RAIN. R: recognize A: allow I: investigate N: non-identification "Recognize" was self-explanatory. Using my David Westin example, in those moments after our--even in the best light--quite ambivalent meeting, job number one was simply to acknowledge my feelings. "It's like agreeing to pause in the face of what's here, and just acknowledge the actuality," said Brach. The first step is admitting it. "Allow" is where you lean into it. The" | Dan Harris | ||
| 30d0b33 | Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Christopher Hitchens | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 6718aa7 | saloon. They received a glance | William W. Johnstone | ||
| 45a21e4 | morning | William W. Johnstone | ||
| f9c78a9 | organize and complete Mr. | William W. Johnstone | ||
| ac8971d | I suppose the only time we ever really get to be happy in life--like one hundred percent blissful--is when we're little kids. | gertrude-yorkes | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| cf3d7a3 | Is this some kind of kinky thrupple thing? Because I'm not necessarily opposed. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 19f8737 | I'm not buried in that plot, Karoline. Some woman claiming to be me from the future is. | karolina-dean | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 530b5af | Death is just a chapter break in a never-ending tale, Nico. | mr-minoru | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 721d49d | But I have no idea who I am." "Yeah. Welcome to the club." | xavin | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| aca03f7 | How's a skeleton crew supposed to save Chase from the giants who annihilated our parents?" "I believe your people call it "girl power." | nico-minoru xavin | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 950fb64 | Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess." "And everything awful used to be something good." | urbanism new-york-city | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| bd42247 | With little power comes little responsibility. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 9ee4c14 | I mean, when the British burned down the White House in the war of 1812, did we plant a "Tree of Remembrance" in the ashes, or did we get busy rebuilding?" | rebuilding | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 123798b | what good is freedom if we can't do what we want? | marko | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 2eb6263 | Nothing like that is going to happen, Candy. After 9/11 and the gas attacks, our people have learned how important it is to take care of each other. It's a new New York. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 729d5d5 | All you have to do is make a fist. The bullet does the hitting for you"." | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 38a02e5 | The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that. | rick-bradbury | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| b8f71bf | Every kid gets "programmed" by their 'rents, Chase. That doesn't mean they have to do as they're told." | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 2cbf932 | Stupid old boys' network... That's why we're not running the world, huh, girlie? 'Cause when women see a younger version of us, it just makes us angry. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| f94efd1 | Doubt can paralyze you, can make you not want to do anything. But if you learn to channel it, to turn those feelings away from yourself and out at the world you can doubt what's impossible. | faith inspirational | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 2876071 | I guess i'm just haunted by all that potential energy. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| f385475 | Face it, you can be a writer or a pacifist. But you can't be both. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| ccd6fc1 | School taught him how much he loved being home. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| eab8421 | Granny would never love anyone the way she loved my grandfather, but that doesn't mean she never loved again. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| 8280cf3 | Putting new ideas into another person's head is an aggressive act, and aggressive acts have consequences. Face it, you can be a writer or a pacifist, but you can't be both. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| a48f2ae | I hope there are other animals my age out there. I always wanted to kill a baby goat! | meat-eating | Brian K. Vaughan | |
| 5684a9c | The whole point of having enemies abroad is getting to ignore the once back home. | Brian K. Vaughan | ||
| dc9fa90 | Every relationship is an education. Each new person we welcome into our hearts is a chance to evolve into something radically different than we used to be. | relationships | Brian K. Vaughan |