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| ce1e960 | They did not look at these things as good or bad, exciting, rational or terrible. They did not look at them at all, but accepted them as Done. | T.H. White | ||
| 886b57e | We are so numerous that we are starving. Therefore we must encourage still larger families so as to become yet more numerous and starving. When we are so numerous and starving as all that, obviously we shall have a right to take other people's stores of seed. Besides, we shall by then have a numerous and starving army. | T.H. White | ||
| d666df1 | We are more numerous than they are, therefore we have a right to their mash. They are more numerous than we are, therefore they are wickedly trying to steal our mash. We are a mighty race and have a natural right to subjugate their puny one. They are a mighty race and are unnaturally trying to subjugate our inoffensive one. We must attack them in self-defence. They are attacking us by defending themselves. If we do not attack them today, th.. | T.H. White | ||
| 52cdaa1 | Pets are almost always fatal, to oneself or to them. It is the curse of possession or motherhood. Mothers ruin their children, choke them like ivy. Dog-lovers steal the souls of their dogs and lose something in exchange. There is an essay on this subject by (I think) Stella Benson called "A Firefly to Steer By." Everybody ought to read it." -- | motherhood friendship mothers animals pets | T.H. White | |
| 2b72453 | Liberty, Equality and Fraternity...." began the badger. "Liberty, Brutality and Obscenity," rejoined the magician promptly. "You should tray living in some of the revolutions which use that slogan. First they proclaim it: then they announce that the aristos must be liquidated, on high moral grounds, in order to purge the party or to prune the commune or to make the world safe for democracy; and then they rape and murder everybody they can l.. | T.H.White | ||
| d033471 | What a bursting heart of gratitude and triumph as the ravening monster slowly paced down the arm with gripping steps and pounced upon his breakfast! The rest of the day was a glow of pleasure, a kind of still life in which the sun shone on the flowers with more than natural brilliance, giving them the high lights of porcelain. | goshawk | T.H. White | |
| c63d546 | One has to live one's knowledge | T.H. White | ||
| f07839b | Man, proud man, stands there in the twentieth century, complacently believing that the race has 'advanced' in the course of a thousand miserable years, and busy blowing his brothers to bits. When will they learn that it takes million years for a bird to modify a single one of its primary feathers? There he stands, the crashing lubber, pretending that everything is different because he has made an internal combustion engine. There he stands,.. | T.H. White | ||
| b3ff0c6 | Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people-- it is often very dangerous indeed to do things at all-- and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, the people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there i.. | T.H. White | ||
| 5b7bcaa | There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn - pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six.. | T.H. White | ||
| a4b6276 | It would be much the same thing if you each hired the best arguer you knew, to argue about it. In the last resort it is usually the richest person who wins, whether he hires the most expensive arguer or the most expensive fighter, so it is no good pretending that this is simply a matter of brute force. | T.H. White | ||
| 1951afe | Owls are the most courteous, single-hearted and faithful creatures living [...] Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom [...] No owl can possibly be called Archie. | T. H. White | ||
| 85c629e | T. H. White once said, "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment." | Dan John | ||
| 720c3c5 | You could talk to him about os and argos, suet and grease, croteys, fewmets and fiants, but he only looked polite. He knew that you were showing off your knowledge of these words, which were to him a business. You could talk about a mighty boar which had nearly slashed you last winter, but he only stared at you with his distant eyes. He had been slashed sixteen times by mighty boars, and his legs had white weals of shiny flesh that stretche.. | T.H. White | ||
| b2fe1ce | In The Goshawk, his diary of an attempt to train a bird of prey during the run-up to the First World War, T. H. White celebrated the pigeon's innate docility, even while he hunted them to feed to his hawk. 'What a peace-loving but prudent race they were', White wrote, 'not predatory and yet not craven. Of all the birds, I thought, they must be the best citizens, the most susceptible to the principles of the League of Nations. | Jon Day | ||
| 0cb7261 | THE Oldest Ones of All were gluttons. Probably it was because they seldom had enough to eat. You can read even nowadays a poem written by one of them, which is known as the Vision of Mac Conglinne. In this Vision there is a description of a castle made out of different kinds of food. The English for part of the poem goes like this: A lake of new milk I beheld In the midst of a fair plain. I saw a well-appointed house Thatched with butter. I.. | T.H. White | ||
| 467e909 | In the end they came to the inner chamber, where Morgan le Fay herself lay stretched upon her bed of glorious lard. | T.H. White | ||
| 564a193 | What will allow you to enter the world of great relationships is living in accord with the simple but powerful Laws of Love. | relationships the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| 92961b1 | In the eyes, heart, and mind of the one you love and who you want to love you, you will become, in essence, a new person. | relationships love the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| 1548d8a | We help our clients discover and correct the underlying conditions that are causing them to self-medicate, to seek relief in substances and addictive behavior. | relationships the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| e937e0c | You can easily see that if you are regularly nasty to your loved one, it won't be long before cause and effect sets in and undermines your relationship. The reverse is also true: if you are unceasingly caring and loving to your loved one and act with the Laws of Love in mind, you will be deeply loved in return and your relationship will thrive. | relationships the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| 0bc4f84 | What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all. | relationships the-laws-of-love self-help | Chris Prentiss | |
| b3545ff | Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude. | opportunity reading writing change alcoholics-anonymous addiction addiction-cure addiction-treatment chris-prentiss challenge | Chris Prentiss | |
| aeb9295 | Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing. | addiction-cure addiction-treatment chris-prentiss | Chris Prentiss | |
| f27bc6c | In the one-treatment-fits-all approach, clients sit in group meetings all day and all evening and listen to each other stories. At the end of the first week, everyone in the room knows everyone's story. That goes on for three more weeks, and then most people go home with the same problems they brought with them when they arrived. | alcoholics-anonymous substance-abuse addiction-treatment chris-prentiss | Chris Prentiss | |
| acc2ce3 | When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help others discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free. | holistic-health passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu chris-prentiss alcoholism | Chris Prentiss | |
| 6b23c21 | The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I'm aware. | depression addiction alcohol-rehab chris-prenitss drug-rehab drug-rehab-center non-12-step alcohol-treatment-center pax-prentiss substance-abuse drug-abuse | Chris Prentiss | |
| a275991 | Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing. | depression inspiration positive-thinking life non-12-step passages-ventura passages-malibu emotions stress quotes | Chris Prentiss | |
| cfd16b5 | How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that "once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict" and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?" | holistic-health holistic passages-rehab passages-treatment-center wellbeing wellness non-12-step zen-and-the-art-of-happiness passages-ventura pax-prentiss passages-malibu chris-prentiss treatment therapy | Chris Prentiss | |
| 8421a84 | Can you see that meetings and centers that don't address the real causes of dependency are almost certain to be little or no help? They actually can be very damaging. | dependency twelve-step-meetings chris-prentiss alcoholism | Chris Prentiss | |
| d202977 | There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy. | philosophy zen-and-the-art-of-happiness philosophy-of-life | Chris Prentiss | |
| 6432e34 | If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it. | inspiration happiness life passages-ventura passages-malibu quotes | Chris Prentiss | |
| dd611f5 | Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which produces yet more joy. | joy music wisdom joyful-living wu-wei | Wu Wei | |
| 12a34ba | Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be. | inspiration inspirational-quotes life passages-ventura passages-malibu perception | Chris Prentiss | |
| 26429f3 | By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life. | inspiration life philosophy inspirational non-12-step passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss quotes perception | Chris Prentiss | |
| 03bdeb2 | You can take the entire world of physics with all of its macrocosm and microcosm, its quantum mechanics and nuclear physics and reduce it to one word: energy. It's all energy. Scientists say that if you can't measure it, weight it, or see it, it doesn't exist. Well, no one has ever seen energy. We can see its effects, but not "it." | philosophy passages-ventura metaphysics passages-malibu energy quotes | Chris Prentiss | |
| 18e6373 | A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope. | philosophy zen-and-the-art-of-happiness zen | Chris Prentiss | |
| 5e2fc04 | Do you believe in chaos- in random, uncontrolled events, in the idea that anything can happen at any time without fixed laws governing it? If you believe that, you will always be in a state of fear, not knowing what will happen from one moment to the next. The fear might be small, but it is there. That fear results in a lack of security and a feeling of mistrust. | relationships the-laws-of-love self-help | Chris Prentiss | |
| 29c9372 | Life is like a river: nothing is ever the same, even for an instant. | relationships life the-laws-of-love self-help | Chris Prentiss | |
| 88b7e8f | CHAPTER IX. | James Fenimore Cooper | ||
| dd2b6fd | Life's tempering and altering process often takes the form of adversity, and, as far as outward appearances are concerned, seems to be working against us when it is actually working for us. | relationships inspiration life love the-laws-of-love | Chris Prentiss | |
| e80fc52 | Each of us is different and has different needs. In addition, our needs change over the course of our relationship. When you are committed to an enduring relationship with someone, you aren't simply concerned about having your needs met. You also go out of your way to care for your loved one, being aware of and adaptable to their changing needs. | relationships inspiration life love the-laws-of-love chris-prentiss self-help | Chris Prentiss | |
| 2de9d74 | If you have experienced recurring situations in your life that are unpleasant, know that there is something you are supposed to be getting from those situations that you have not been getting and that the moment you get it, those situations will pass out of your life, not to return. | philosophy life-improvement passages-malibu chris-prentiss philosophy-of-life self-improvement self-help | Chris Prentiss | |
| e31b4a9 | You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear. | courage freedom fear strength passages-malibu fearless quotes self-help | Chris Prentiss |