Marilyn Monroe Quote #1
A smart girl leaves before she is left
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Alexandra Bracken Quote #1
...crackers... a voice breathed out nehind us, yesss...
Both of us turned, watching as Chubs twisted around in his seat and settled back down, still fast asleep.
I pressed a hand over my mouth to keep from laughing. Liam rolled his eyes, smiling.
He dreams about food, he said. A lot.
Richard Feynman Quotes | Quotes said by Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman Quote #1
[Doubt] is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men who made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas bought in - a trial-and-error system. This method was a result of the fact that science was already showing itself to be a successful venture at the end of the eighteenth century. Even then it was clear to socially minded people that the openness of possibilities was an opportunity, and that doubt and discussion were essential to progress into the unknown. If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar...doubt is not to be feared, but welcomed and discussed.
Edmund Burke Quotes | Quotes said by Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke Quote #1
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
Anne Frank Quotes | Quotes said by Anne Frank
Anne Frank Quote #1
...if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.
Karl Lagerfeld Quotes | Quotes said by Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld Quote #1
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
George W. Bush Quotes | Quotes said by George W. Bush
George W. Bush Quote #1
After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
John Lennon Quotes | Quotes said by John Lennon
John Lennon Quote #1
…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes | Quotes said by Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville Quote #1
Tyranny in democratic republics does not proceed in the same way, however. It ignores the body and goes straight for the soul. The master no longer says: You will think as I do or die. He says: You are free not to think as I do. You may keep your life, your property, and everything else. But from this day forth you shall be as a stranger among us. You will retain your civic privileges, but they will be of no use to you. For if you seek the votes of your fellow citizens, they will withhold them, and if you seek only their esteem, they will feign to refuse even that. You will remain among men, but you will forfeit your rights to humanity. When you approach your fellow creatures, they will shun you as one who is impure. And even those who believe in your innocence will abandon you, lest they, too, be shunned in turn. Go in peace, I will not take your life, but the life I leave you with is worse than death.
Doris Lessing Quotes | Quotes said by Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing Quote #1
...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
Marissa Meyer Quotes | Quotes said by Marissa Meyer
Marissa Meyer Quote #1
Aaaaw, squealed Iko. Did Wold just say he loves Scarlet? That's so cute!
Scarlet cringed. He did not - that wasn't - She balled her fists against her sides. Can we get back to these soldiers that are being rounded up, please?
Is she blushing? She sounds like she's blushing.
She's blushing. Thorne confirmed, shiffling the cards. Actually, Wolf is also looking a little flustered -
Arthur C. Clarke Quotes | Quotes said by Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke Quote #1
(...)Through the ship's telescopes, he had watched the death of the solar system. With his own eyes, he had seen the volcanoes of Mars erupt for the first time in a billion years; Venus briefly naked as her atmosphere was blasted into space before she herself was consumed; the gas giants exploding into incandescent fireballs. But these were empty, meaningless spectacles compared with the tragedy of Earth.
That, too, he had watched through the lenses of cameras that had survived a few minutes longer than the devoted men who had sacrificed the last moments of their lives to set them up. He had seen ...
... the Great Pyramid, glowing dully red before it slumped into a puddle of molten stone ...
... the floor of the Atlantic, baked rock-hard in seconds, before it was submerged again, by the lava gushing from the volcanoes of the Mid-ocean Rift...
... the Moon rising above the flaming forests of Brazil and now itself shining almost as brilliantly as had the Sun, on its last setting, only minutes before ...
... the continent of Antarctica emerging briefly after its long burial, as the kilometres of ancient ice were burned away ...
... the mighty central span of the Gibraltar Bridge, melting even as it slumped downward through the burning air ...
In that last century the Earth was haunted with ghosts - not of the dead, but of those who now could never be born. For five hundred years the birthrate had been held at a level that would reduce the human population to a few millions when the end finally came. Whole cities - even countries - had been deserted as mankind huddled together for History's closing act.
Terry Tempest Williams Quotes | Quotes said by Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams Quote #1
A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.
Poppet Quotes | Quotes said by Poppet
Poppet Quote #1
A man who is obviously too handsome for his own good smiles at me. His eyes are mischievous, as if he's harboring wicked thoughts and is tempted to subject me to them.
I hold his dark gaze for a moment too long, and then pin my focus back on the
Thomas S. Monson Quotes | Quotes said by Thomas S. Monson
Thomas S. Monson Quote #1
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Kate Atkinson Quotes | Quotes said by Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson Quote #1
-by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds I've discovered so far).
Kenneth Eade Quotes | Quotes said by Kenneth Eade
Kenneth Eade Quote #1
, I believe in some type of free market system. I just don’t think you’ll find an example of one completely free from government intervention.
Anna Quindlen Quotes | Quotes said by Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen Quote #1
.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.
Delano Johnson Quotes | Quotes said by Delano Johnson
Delano Johnson Quote #1
A dalliance with poetry before we dance.
Diana Wynne Jones Quotes | Quotes said by Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones Quote #1
...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.
Meg Cabot Quotes | Quotes said by Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot Quote #1
...everyone's too busy having a good time to care about anyone else.
This sucks, Alex said sullenly. If someone murders you and you get revived and come back to wreak vengeance on your killers, they could at least have the decency to notice you.
Andy Warhol Quotes | Quotes said by Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol Quote #1
Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes | Quotes said by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote #1
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Suzanne Finnamore Quotes | Quotes said by Suzanne Finnamore
Suzanne Finnamore Quote #1
It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this....
Alberto Caeiro Quotes | Quotes said by Alberto Caeiro
Alberto Caeiro Quote #1
A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy tales
Acts like a sick god, but like a god.
Because even though he affirms that what doesn’t exist exists,
He knows things exist, that he exists,
He knows existing exists and doesn’t explain itself,
And he knows there’s no reason at all for anything to exist.
He knows being is the point.
All he doesn’t know is that thought isn’t the point.
(10/1/1917)
Jason Versey Quotes | Quotes said by Jason Versey
Jason Versey Quote #1
A dove will never be found in a burning tree and love will never be found in a heart that won't forgive.
Viktor E. Frankl Quotes | Quotes said by Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor E. Frankl Quote #1
...the story of the young woman whose death I witnessed in a concentration camp. It is a simple story. There is little to tell and it may sound as if I had invented it; but to me it seems like a poem. This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this knowledge. I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard, she told me. In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously. Pointing through the window of the hut, she said, This tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness. Through that window she could see just one branch of a chestnut tree, and on the branch were two blossoms. I often talk to this tree, she said to me. I was startled and didn't quite know how to take her words. Was she delirious? Did she have occasional hallucinations? Anxiously I asked her if the tree replied. Yes. What did it say to her? She answered, It said to me, 'I am here-I am here-I am life, eternal life.
Stephen Fry Quotes | Quotes said by Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry Quote #1
... Our language, tiger, our language: hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of legitimate new ideas... And yet, oh, and yet, we, all of us, spend all our days saying to each other the same things time after weary time: I love you, Don't go in there, Get out, You have no right to say that, Stop it, Why should I, That hurt, Help, Marjorie is dead.
Will Advise Quotes | Quotes said by Will Advise
Will Advise Quote #1
#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.
Steven Chopade Quotes | Quotes said by Steven Chopade
Steven Chopade Quote #1
A poet's fantasy: Hiring a rapper to rap his rhymes.
Mark Haddon Quotes | Quotes said by Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon Quote #1
... I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
Farshad Asl Quotes | Quotes said by Farshad Asl
Farshad Asl Quote #1
A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into significance.
J.M. Coetzee Quotes | Quotes said by J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee Quote #1
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
Julio Cortázar Quotes | Quotes said by Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar Quote #1
(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.
Steven Moffat Quotes | Quotes said by Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat Quote #1
Amy: Can I come?
Doctor: Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back.
Amy: People always say that.
Doctor: Am I people?...Do I even look like people?...Trust me, I'm the Doctor.
Knut Hamsun Quotes | Quotes said by Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun Quote #1
... han hadde av Theodor sin fineste hermetik å diske op med og dertil kold fugl og marmelader og æg på tre måter og kjæks og multer. Og han hadde øl og rødvin til drikke og til fuglen hadde han en kurv champagne... Å for en fest!
Zhuangzi Quotes | Quotes said by Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi Quote #1
A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little hole - this refers to a difference in function. Thoroughbreds like Qiji and Hualiu could gallop a thousand li in one day, but when it came to catching rats they were no match for the wildcat or the weasel - this refers to a difference in skill. The horned owl catches fleas at night and can spot the tip of a hair, but when daylight comes, no matter how wide it opens its eyes, it cannot see a mound or a hill - this refers to a difference in nature. Now do you say, that you are going to make Right your master and do away with Wrong, or make Order your master and do away with Disorder? If you do, then you have not understood the principle of heaven and earth or the nature of the ten thousand things. This is like saying that you are going to make Heaven your master and do away with Earth, or make Yin your master and do away with Yang. Obviously it is impossible.
Elisabeth Elliot Quotes | Quotes said by Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot Quote #1
...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
Julia Cameron Quotes | Quotes said by Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron Quote #1
A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.
Gail Carriger Quotes | Quotes said by Gail Carriger
Gail Carriger Quote #1
...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!
W.B. Yeats Quotes | Quotes said by W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats Quote #1
(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. (The Adoration of The Magi)
Joe Hill Quotes | Quotes said by Joe Hill
Joe Hill Quote #1
... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.
H.G. Wells Quotes | Quotes said by H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells Quote #1
...I suppose it is a lingering trace of Plutarch and my ineradicable boyish imagination that at bottom our State should be wise, sane, and dignified, that makes me think a country which leaves its medical and literary criticism, or indeed any such vitally important criticism, entirely to private enterprise and open to the advances of any purchaser much be in a frankly hopeless condition.
Steve Goodier Quotes | Quotes said by Steve Goodier
Steve Goodier Quote #1
A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.
Felix Wantang Quotes | Quotes said by Felix Wantang
Felix Wantang Quote #1
All good things come from love; God used the cross a symbol of His love, to paralyze and defeat all forces of evil. God is love. John 3:16
Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes | Quotes said by Gordon B. Hinckley
Gordon B. Hinckley Quote #1
. . . You are good. But is is not enough to be good. You must be good for something. The world must be a better place for your presence and the good that is in you must be spread to others.
Charles Baudelaire Quotes | Quotes said by Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire Quote #1
À une passante
La rue assourdissante autour de moi hurlait.?
Longue, mince, en grand deuil, douleur majestueuse,?
Une femme passa, d'une main fastueuse?
Soulevant, balançant le feston et l'ourlet;
Agile et noble, avec sa jambe de statue.?
Moi, je buvais, crispé comme un extravagant,?
Dans son oeil, ciel livide où germe l'ouragan,?
La douceur qui fascine et le plaisir qui tue.
Un éclair . . . puis la nuit! — Fugitive beauté
Dont le regard m'a fait soudainement renaître,?
Ne te verrai-je plus que dans l'éternité?
Ailleurs, bien loin d'ici! trop tard! jamais peut-être!?
Car j'ignore où tu fuis, tu ne sais où je vais,?
Ô toi que j'eusse aimée, ô toi qui le savais!
Don DeLillo Quotes | Quotes said by Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo Quote #1
?As pessoas nao vão morrer. Não é esse o credo da nova cultura? As pessoas vão ser absorvidas em fluxos de informações. Não entendo nada disso. Os computadores vão morrer. Já estão morrendo na sua forma atual. Estão praticamente mortos como unidades distintas. Uma caixa, uma tela, um teclado. Eles estão se dissolvendo na textura da vida cotidiana. (...) Até a palavra computador parece retrógrada e burra.
Stephen Hawking Quotes | Quotes said by Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking Quote #1
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
Becca Fitzpatrick Quotes | Quotes said by Becca Fitzpatrick
Becca Fitzpatrick Quote #1
-Do you want to posses my body?
-I want to do many things to your body but that's not one of them
D.H. Lawrence Quotes | Quotes said by D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence Quote #1
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #2
All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #3
All the lot. Their spunk is gone dead. Motor-cars and cinemas and aeroplanes suck that last bit out of them. I tell you, every generation breeds a more rabbity generation, with India rubber tubing for guts and tin legs and tin faces. Tin people! It’s all a steady sort of bolshevism just killing off the human thing, and worshipping the mechanical thing. Money, money, money! All the modern lot get their real kick out of killing the old human feeling out of man, making mincemeat of the old Adam and the old Eve. They’re all alike. The world is all alike: kill off the human reality, a quid for every foreskin, two quid for each pair of balls. What is cunt but machine-fucking! — It’s all alike. Pay ’em money to cut off the world’s cock. Pay money, money, money to them that will take spunk out of mankind, and leave ’em all little twiddling machines.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #4
And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal.
Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at least, Clifford was shifting his grip from her on to Mrs Bolton. He did not know it. Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of, the great desert tracts in his consciousness.D.H. Lawrence Quote #5
And dimly she realised one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, which does not kill the body, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only appearance. It is really only the mechanism of the resumed habit. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #6
And her soul died in her for fear: she knew she had never seen him, he had never seen her, they had met in the dark and had fought in the dark, not knowing whom they met nor whom they fought.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #7
And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #8
And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #9
And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #10
And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #11
And who should have the money, indeed, if not your wives? They have everything to do with the money. What idea have you, but to waste it!
Women waste nothing--they couldn't if they tried, said Aaron Sisson.D.H. Lawrence Quote #12
And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #13
Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.
'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.'
(Women in Love)D.H. Lawrence Quote #14
But a democracy is bound in the end to be obscene, for it is composed of myriad disunited fragments, each fragment assuming to itself a false wholeness, a false individuality. Modern democracy is made up of millions of frictional parts all asserting their own wholeness.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #15
But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #16
But you don't fuck me cold-heartedly,' she protested.
'I don't want to fuck you at all.'
Lady Chatterly's LoverD.H. Lawrence Quote #17
Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life!
D.H. Lawrence Quote #18
Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always something anti-life. The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln, had always a sacrificial, self-murdering note in their voices. American Democracy was a form of self-murder, always. Or of murdering somebody else... The love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #19
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
D.H. Lawrence Quote #20
For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #21
For God’s sake, let us be men
not monkeys minding machines
or sitting with our tails curled
while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone.
Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.D.H. Lawrence Quote #22
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #23
From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insentience of the outer world. She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees. They seemed a very power of silence, and yet a vital presence. They, too, were waiting: obstinately, stoically waiting, and giving off a potency of silence.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #24
Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #25
He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #26
He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick slice of bread, and cut off chunks with a clasp-knife, poured his tea into his saucer, and was happy.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #27
Her eyes were like the first morning of the world, so ageless
D.H. Lawrence Quote #28
Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...
D.H. Lawrence Quote #29
Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is less, far less than the individual because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. And they say that love is greatest thing, they persist in saying this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do (...It's a lie to say that love is greatest, what people want is hate - hate, and nothing but hate. And in the name of righteousness and love they get it...If we want hate, let us have it - death, murder, torture, violent destruction- let us have it: but not in the name of love.
D.H. Lawrence Quote #30
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.
and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.
I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self,
and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help
and patience, and a certain difficult repentance
long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself
from the endless repetition of the mistake
which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
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...there are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass.
Amen.Marianne Williamson Quote #2
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Marianne Williamson Quote #12
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Marianne Williamson Quote #14
Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Marianne Williamson Quote #15
Don't stop now. Keep going. The next time someone makes you feel though, winning as you are, perhaps you're getting too big for your britches; say to them silently, i haven't even started yet.
Marianne Williamson Quote #16
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson Quote #17
Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
Marianne Williamson Quote #18
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.
Marianne Williamson Quote #19
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson Quote #20
For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
Marianne Williamson Quote #21
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson Quote #22
From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.
Marianne Williamson Quote #23
God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.
Marianne Williamson Quote #24
God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.
Marianne Williamson Quote #25
Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.
Marianne Williamson Quote #26
Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.
Marianne Williamson Quote #27
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.
Marianne Williamson Quote #28
I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.
Marianne Williamson Quote #29
I conquered outer worlds just as he had. I expressed masculine strength and power just as he had. But it didn't bring me closer to him or to others like him because I had become one of the guys, and that's not what most men are looking for. He had never loved me for being a great guy.
Marianne Williamson Quote #30
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
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John Updike Quote #1
[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.
John Updike Quote #2
…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America?
John Updike Quote #3
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike Quote #4
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike Quote #5
America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.
John Updike Quote #6
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
John Updike Quote #7
And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?
John Updike Quote #8
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
John Updike Quote #9
As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall was no more uncomfortable than the persistence of Rabbit's own childhood in an annex of his brain; but when the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood.
John Updike Quote #10
Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.
John Updike Quote #11
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
John Updike Quote #12
But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.
John Updike Quote #13
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
John Updike Quote #14
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
John Updike Quote #15
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
John Updike Quote #16
Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.
John Updike Quote #17
Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of checkers call to his memory, and the forgotten smell of that narrow plastic ribbon you braid bracelets and whistlechains out of and of glue and of the sweat on the handles on athletic equipment is blown down by a breeze laced with children's murmuring. He feels the truth: the thing that has left his life has left irrevocably; no search would recover it. No flight would reach it. It was here, beneath the town, in these smells and these voices, forever behind him. The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.
John Updike Quote #18
Dollars had once gathered like autumn leaves on the wooden collection plates; dollars were the flourishing sign of God's specifically American favor, made manifest in the uncountable millions of Carnegie and Mellon and Henry Ford and Catholina Lambert. But amid this fabled plenty the whiff of damnation had cleared of dollars and cents the parched ground around Clarence Wilmot.
John Updike Quote #19
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike Quote #20
Driving is boring, Rabbit pontificates, but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.
John Updike Quote #21
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
John Updike Quote #22
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike Quote #23
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
John Updike Quote #24
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
John Updike Quote #25
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike Quote #26
Growth is betrayal.
John Updike Quote #27
Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
John Updike Quote #28
He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting.
John Updike Quote #29
He sees now that he is rich that these were the [shore] outings of the poor, ending in sunburn and stomach upset. Pop liked crabcakes and baked oysters but could never eat them without throwing up. When the Model A was tucked into the garage and little Mim tucked into bed Harry could hear his father vomiting in a far corner of the yard. He never complained about vomiting or about work, they were just things you had to do, one more regularly than the other.
John Updike Quote #30
Humor is my default mode.
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Naomi Wolf Quote #1
...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship.
Naomi Wolf Quote #2
A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women are insatiable. We are greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we could get away with it, we would ask for more love, more sex, more money, more commitment to children, more food, more care. These sexual, emotional, and physical demands would begin to extend to social demands: payment for care of the elderly, parental leave, childcare, etc. The force of female desire would be so great that society would truly have to reckon with what women want, in bed and in the world.
Naomi Wolf Quote #3
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
Naomi Wolf Quote #4
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
Naomi Wolf Quote #5
A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes--all of which we do. The fact is that women are able to view men just as men view women, as objects for sexual and aesthetic evaluation; we too are effortlessly able to choose the male ideal from a lineup and if we could have male beauty as well as everything else, most of us would not say no. But so what? Given all that, women make the choice, by and large, to take men as human beings first.
Naomi Wolf Quote #6
After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.
Naomi Wolf Quote #7
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
Naomi Wolf Quote #8
An economy that depends on slavery needs to promote images of slaves that “justify” the institution of slavery. The contemporary economy depends right now on the representation of women within the beauty myth. Economist John Kenneth
Galbraith offers an economic explanation for “the persistence of the view of homemaking as a ‘higher calling’”: the concept of women as naturally trapped within the Feminine Mystique, he feels, “has been forced on us by popular sociology, by magazines, and by fiction to disguise the fact that woman in her role of consumer has been essential to the development of our industrial society…. Behavior that is essential for economic reasons is transformed into a social virtue.Naomi Wolf Quote #9
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.
Naomi Wolf Quote #10
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
Naomi Wolf Quote #11
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an ideal be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face?
Naomi Wolf Quote #12
Beauty and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be beautiful to be sexual. That of course is not true at all. The definitions of both beautiful and sexual constantly change to serve the social order, and the connection between the two is a recent invention.
Naomi Wolf Quote #13
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
Naomi Wolf Quote #14
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
Naomi Wolf Quote #15
Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
Naomi Wolf Quote #16
By the 1980s beauty had come to play in women’s status-seeking the same role as money plays in that of men: a defensive proof to aggressive competitors of womanhood or manhood. Since both value systems are reductive, neither reward is ever enough, and each quickly loses any relationship to real-life values.
Naomi Wolf Quote #17
Camille Paglia is: 'the nipple-pierced person's Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of patriarchal daughters.
Naomi Wolf Quote #18
Consumer culture is best supported by markets made up of sexual clones, men who want objects and women who want to be objects, and the object desired ever-changing, disposable, and dictated by the market. The beautiful object of consumer pornography has a built-in obsolescence, to ensure that as few men as possible will form a bond with one woman for years or for a lifetime, and to ensure that women's dissatisfaction with themselves will grow rather than diminish over time. Emotionally unstable relationships, high divorce rates, and a large population cast out into the sexual marketplace are good for business in a consumer economy. Beauty pornography is intent on making modern sex brutal and boring and only as deep as a mirror's mercury, anti-erotic for both men and women.
Naomi Wolf Quote #19
Cosmetic surgery is not cosmetic, and human flesh is not plastic. Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: a nip, a tummy tuck....Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice.
Naomi Wolf Quote #20
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
Naomi Wolf Quote #21
Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.
Naomi Wolf Quote #22
Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
Naomi Wolf Quote #23
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- fear societies and free societies, two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped.
In contrast, the consciousness of freedom is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, and hope. It is a consciousness of limitless inquiry. It builds up in a citizen a wealth of self-respect.Naomi Wolf Quote #24
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
Naomi Wolf Quote #25
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.
Naomi Wolf Quote #26
For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexuality of children has begun to be shaped in response to cues that are no longer human. Nothing comparable has ever happened in the history of our species; it dislodges Freud. Today's children and young men and women have sexual identities that spiral around paper and celluloid phantoms: from Playboy to music videos to the blank females torsos in women's magazines, features obscured and eyes extinguished, they are being imprinted with a sexuality that is mass-produced, deliberately dehumanizing and inhuman.
Naomi Wolf Quote #27
Health makes good propaganda.
Naomi Wolf Quote #28
Healthy and diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.
Naomi Wolf Quote #29
Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see.
Naomi Wolf Quote #30
If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.
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Janet Evanovich Quote #1
...Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff? - Aunt Edna
Janet Evanovich Quote #2
...I blink back the threat of tears, swiped at my nose and narrowed my eyes. Listen to me, you two bags of monkey shit, I yelled. I am not in a good mood. My car keeps stalling. The day before yesterday I threw up on Joe Morelli. I was called a fat cow by my ex-husband. And if that isn't enough...my hair is ORANGE! ORANGE, FOR CHRISSAKE! And now you have the gall to force yourself into my home and threaten my hamster. Well, you have gone too far. You have crossed the line!
Janet Evanovich Quote #3
[Ranger] How's your mental health? he asked. I heard about Soder.
[Stephanie] I'm rattled.
I have a cure.
Oh, boy.
He put the truck in gear and headed for the exit. I know what you're thinking, he said. And that wasn't where I was going. I was going to suggest work.
I knew that.
He looked over at me and grinned. You want me bad.
I did. God help me.Janet Evanovich Quote #4
Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.
Janet Evanovich Quote #5
Aren't you something, Grandma said. I never saw a midget up close.
Little person, Briggs said. And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.Janet Evanovich Quote #6
As Stephanie and Lula were going after the bad guys, Lula was making preparations from the trunk of her Firebird. Stephanie looked inside and stopped breathing for a beat. That's a rocket launcher! Yep, Lula said. It's a big boy. I got it at a yard sale in the projects.
Janet Evanovich Quote #7
Babe!
Janet Evanovich Quote #8
Babe, Ranger said. You're looking a little strung out. Is there anything I should know?
I'm on a sugar withdrawal. I've given up desert and it's all I can think about. That had been true five minutes ago. Now that Ranger was standng in front of me I was thinking a cupcake wasn't what I actually needed.
Maybe I can help you get your mind off doughnuts, Ranger said.
My mouth dropped open, and I think some drool might have dribbled out.Janet Evanovich Quote #9
Besides, there's nobody who is going to watch your back better than me. You know that. And that's why I'm going to be there with you, whenever there is, whenever you ask, and as long as I'm able, he said. It's what fathers do.
Most father's don't show up with hand grenades and bowie knives.
They should be ashamed of themselves, Jake said.Janet Evanovich Quote #10
Bob had a dog buscuit stuck to his head. How does he always get food stuck to him? I asked Morelli.
I don't know, Morelli said. It's a Bob mystery. I think stuff falls out of his mouth and he rolls in it. I'm not sure.
-Morelli And StephanieJanet Evanovich Quote #11
Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.
Janet Evanovich Quote #12
Connie, giving her thoughts on why Vinnie's hot temper is less than normal, says: Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning.
Janet Evanovich Quote #13
Cooking wasn’t so bad, I thought. In fact, it was a lot like sex. Sometimes it didn’t seem like such a good idea in the beginning, but then after you got into it …
Janet Evanovich Quote #14
Cripes, I can’t keep up on this political correct shit. I don’t even know what to call myself. One minute I’m black. Then I’m African American. Then I’m a person of color. Who the hell makes these rules up, anyhow?
Janet Evanovich Quote #15
Diesel sucked air. You keep fondling me like that, and I might have to marry you.
I'm not fondling you. I'm looking for the keys!
Could you look a little more gently? You're scaring my boys.Janet Evanovich Quote #16
Do you see that man in the black Porsche? I asked the women.
They squinted out at Ranger. Yes, they said.Your partner.
He's homeless. He's looking for a place to stay and he might be interested in renting Singh's room.
Mrs.Apusenja's eyes widened. We could use the income.She looked at Nonnie and then back at Ranger. Is he married?
Nope. He's single. He's a real catch.
Connie did something between a gasp and a snort and buried her head back behind the computer. Thank you for everything. Mrs.Apusenja said. I suppose you are not such a bad slut. I will go talk to your partner.:
Omigod, Connie said, when the door closed behind the Apusenja's. Ranger's going to kill you. The Apusenjas stood beside the Porsche, talkig to Ranger for a few long minutes, giving him the big sales pitch. The pitch wound down, Ranger responded, and Mrs. Apusenja looked disappointed. The two women crossed the road and got into the burgundy Escort and quickly drove away. Ranger turned his head in my direction and our eyes met. His expression was still bemused, but this time it was the sort of bemused expression a kid has when he's pulling the wings off a fly.
Uh-Oh,Connie said. I whipped around and faced Connie. Quick, give me an FTA. You're backed up, right? For God's sake, give me something fast. I need a reason to stand here until he calms down! Connie shoved a pile of folders at me. Pick one. Any one! Oh shit, he's getting out of his car.....
He leaned into me and his lips brushed the shell of my ear. Feeling playful?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Watch your back babe. I will get even.
-Ranger and StephanieJanet Evanovich Quote #17
Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off, he said. I'm not in the mood to compromise.
Janet Evanovich Quote #18
Embarrassing as it was to admit, I was beginning to enjoy the role, thinking there was nothing like packing a pair of cuffs to put some spring into a woman's step.
Janet Evanovich Quote #19
Everyone wants a Christmas tree. If you had a Christmas tree Santa would bring you stuff! Like hair curlers and slut shoes.
Janet Evanovich Quote #20
Excuse me? I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. Coffee? I thought we came here for pie. I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here. I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked.
Janet Evanovich Quote #21
Fuck, Ranger said.
Ranger didn't often curse and he rarely raised his voice. The fuck has been entirely conversational. Like he was now midly inconvenienced. He put his Bates boot to the door and the door popped open..Janet Evanovich Quote #22
He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told me that time spent with him would ruin me for all other men. When he said it, I thought it was an outrageous threat. I no longer though it outrageous.
Janet Evanovich Quote #23
He [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us.
I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me, Ranger said.
[Stephanie] She wants to see you naked.
I wish you hadn't told me that, babe.
Everyone I know wants to see you naked.
And you?
Never crossed my mind. I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying.Janet Evanovich Quote #24
He blew himself up.”
“Get out! You mean like guts all over the place?”
“Not all over the place,” I said. “He was pretty well contained, all things considered.Janet Evanovich Quote #25
He squinted at me. What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?
Janet Evanovich Quote #26
He wears jeans, untucked shirts, and a Glock 19, and he has a big shaggy dog named Bob.
Janet Evanovich Quote #27
He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple.
Janet Evanovich Quote #28
He’s sort of a homeless horse,” I said.
“I’m leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I won’t be back for a couple days. You can put the horse in the garage, but I don’t want that horse in my apartment.”
“Who would put a horse in an apartment? That’s dumb.”
“Where’s the horse staying now?”
“My apartment.”
“I can always count on you to brighten my day,” Ranger said. And he disconnected.Janet Evanovich Quote #29
Her concept of paradise was something more immediate: a book and a blanket beneath a tree, where she might read in peace.
Janet Evanovich Quote #30
Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first thought was always of sex. Don't get me wrong. I like sex . . . a lot. But it's never going to replace cake.
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Sharon Salzberg Quote #1
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others
Sharon Salzberg Quote #2
As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #3
As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #4
As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #5
At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #6
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #7
Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart
Sharon Salzberg Quote #8
Buddha ?rst taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #9
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #10
Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #11
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #12
Compassion is born out of lovingkindness.
It is born of knowing our oneness, not just thinking about it or wishing it were so. It is born out of the wisdom of seeing things exactly as they are.Sharon Salzberg Quote #13
Contemplating the goodness within ourselves is a classical meditation, done to bring light, joy, and rapture to the mind. In contemporary times this practice might be considered rather embarrassing, because so often the emphasis is on all the unfortunate things we have done, all the disturbing mistakes we have made. Yet this classical reflection is not a way of increasing conceit. It is rather a commitment to our own happiness, seeing our happiness as the basis for intimacy with all of life. It fills us with joy and love for ourselves and a great deal of self-respect. Significantly, when we do metta practice, we begin by directing metta toward ourselves. This is the essential foundation for being able to offer genuine love to others
Sharon Salzberg Quote #14
Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #15
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #16
Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment
Sharon Salzberg Quote #17
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #18
Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #19
Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we’re hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #20
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #21
For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #22
Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #23
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #24
Hatred does not help us alleviate our pain even in the slightest.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #25
I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #26
I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #27
I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #28
I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #29
If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we're protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain.
Sharon Salzberg Quote #30
If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.
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