He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
Aldous Huxley
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. Lewis
Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.
Paulo Coelho
The crowds in the big towns, with their mild, knobby faces, their bad teeth and gentle manners solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar boxes.
George Orwell
Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Mahatma Gandhi
Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Stephen King
There are no ordinary moments.
Dan Millman
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.
Ambrose Bierce
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Albert Camus
Courage: To step into a conversation with intention and without knowing how to get back out of it.
Dwight Frindt
Daily conversations that stretch your previous capacities help build your conversational muscle.
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
Aristotle
If you and the people with whom you are engaged are willing to dance with the infinite potential dimensions of "truth," you can move to a place where you actively explore all perspectives to find common ground and creative solutions.
In an environment of unrelenting change, some of your greatest assets are your own awareness, creativity, and intention.
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.
Steve Maraboli
Lead with your own participation in a way that you believe will create value and will invite others to do the same.
Suzanne Mayo Frindt
Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action.
Going after what I believe in.
When speaking, being present means you choose to respond rather than react, letting go of emotions and objections and remaining focused on what is to be achieved.
Your ability to move others into appropriate, timely, and effective action is largely determined by the consequences of your speaking and listening.
You can design a conversation intentionally, although most people donÂ’t. Most conversations have a design that is invisible and unconscious.
If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...
We can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own good fortune; often happiness comes in ways we don't even notice. It's like a cartoon I saw of an astonished-looking man saying, 'What was that?' The caption below read, 'Bob experiences a moment of well-being.' The ordinariness of our good fortune can make it hard to catch.
Pema Chodron, The Places That Sc
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Dr. Paul Tournier
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson
To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
Elizabeth Taylor
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
Neil Gaiman
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water
Virginia Woolf
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened 'Briars;' go out upon that, build yourself a hut, and there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. I see no alternative, no other hope for you.
William Ellery Channing, Letter
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