~The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
~That’s what I’m offering you.” His breath was warm against her skin. “I want to fill your life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light.”
Redeeming Love:
A Novel by Francine Rivers
~Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.
~Some folks is whispering, murmuring to God, and a quiet power fill up the room, like bees buzzing on a comb. I say my prayers to myself. When I’m done, I take a deep breath, wait for the others to finish. When I get home tonight, I’ll write my prayers too. This is worth the double time.
~If chocolate was a sound, it would’ve been Constantine’s voice singing. If singing was a color, it would’ve been the color of that chocolate.
The Help by
~Each phase has been
accompanied by a utopian rethinking of art’s relationship to the social and of
its political potential – manifested in a reconsideration of the ways in which
art is produced, consumed and debate.
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and
the Politics of Spectatorship
~Personal choices are not
always as personal as they appear. We are all influenced by social conventions,
peer pressure, and familial expectations.
~We overwork to overcompensate.
~Guilt management can be just
as important as time management for mothers.
~Sometimes I wonder what it
would be like to go through life without being labeled by my gender.~The goal is to give women something men tend to receive automatically—the benefit of the doubt.
~Feeling threatened by others’ choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.
~I am hoping that each woman will set her own goals and reach for them with gusto. And I am hoping that each man will do his part to support women in the workplace and in the home, also with gusto.
Lean
In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
~You, leaders, are artists: a
realization that should overwhelm as well as humble. It underscores your public
role and the risks involved. You are putting your work on display every day, like an artist.
~Effective Does Not Mean Good
We are repeatedly struck by the tolerance of many companies toward people who
are highly compromised. Most often, these are people who make money while
simultaneously doing immeasurable damage to morale and to the organization.
~C. S. Lewis once remarked
that philosophy is the study of what we already know. We would put leadership
in the same camp. A common lament from those who read leadership books is that
it is all common sense. What else could it be? Leadership is about a
relationship between one person and others. As a relationship, it is subject to
the same human interests and concerns that infiltrate other areas of our lives.
Therefore, if we are accused of common sense, to that we would say, “Good, it
should be.”
Every
Leader Is an Artist: How the World's Greatest Artists Can Make You a More
Creative Leader
~Ours was the kind of dinner
conversation one might expect to find in an English-as-a-second-language course
or in the babble of a Pentecostal church.
~You’ll find the balance you
need as soon as you let go of how you think things should be and accept them as
they are. Watch for the big wave. It’ll push you in the direction of joy.
~Outside my window the
gorgeous blue sky and beaming sunshine mocked me. It was a beautiful new day.
Against my will, I started to cry again. I didn’t want a new day full of the
same shit as yesterday. I didn’t want to be alone. But I didn’t have the
courage not to be.
~On the heels of anger came
denial. A glorious place to visit, but a dangerous place to live.
~Life is to be embraced. It’s
meant to be lived and enjoyed. Make your mistakes, but make them with gusto and
learn from them.~My attorney, Jeannette, was the sort of elegant, overaccomplished woman I normally disliked on principle alone. She was brilliant, fearless, and dressed with a panache even Fontaine could not duplicate. Her skin reminded me of a mocha latte, and her dark, soulful eyes saw through bullshit like laser vision.
~My heart went pop, pop,
sparkle, sparkle, shimmer, shimmer, sigh...
Crazy
Little Thing (A Bell Harbor Novel)
~If these statistics surprise
you, that’s probably because so many people pretend to be extroverts. Closet
introverts pass undetected on playgrounds, in high school locker rooms, and in
the corridors of corporate America.
~Peer pressure, in other
words, is not only unpleasant, but can actually change your view of a problem.~Persistence isn’t very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.
~Where we stumble is where
our treasure lies.
~The secret to life is to put
yourself in the right lighting. For some it’s aBroadway spotlight; for others,
a lamplit desk.
Quiet:
The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
~My subjects say the real
lessons of life are learned by recognizing and coming to terms with being
human. Even as victims, we are beneficiaries because it is how we stand up to
failure and duress which really marks our progress in life. Sometimes one of
the most important lessons is to learn to just let go of the past.
~We don't need to change who
we are in relation to life's experiences, only our negative reactions to these
events.
~Lesson we must learn from
human relationships is accepting people for who they are without expecting our
happiness to be totally dependent upon anyone
Journey
of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives by Michael Newton
~Like the late United States senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, we believe that people have a right to their own opinion but not their own facts.
~Untruths that are
somewhere on the spectrum between totally unconscious and partly conscious,
untruths that people tell not only to others but at times to themselves as
well.
~Indeed, in the cultural climate of early twentieth-century America, it may have been as politically incorrect to express tolerance as it is to express intolerance in early twenty-first-century America.
Blindspot:
Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald
~What was wrong with these
Russians? Everything they did was slapdash, disorganized, and half-finished.
~This was how Lenin was all
the time. He barked orders at everyone, and they did what he said because he
always made sense.
~A baby was like a
revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how
it would turn out. General Kornilov’s counterrevolution had been crushed before
it got started.
Fall
of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
~“All
transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.” She
wrote, “The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible
legacies of endless war.” She wrote, “The victor shall win—but only until he no
longer wins.” She wrote, “This life is a tentative and difficult experiment.”
~“I believe that we are all
transient,” she began. She thought for a while and added, “I believe that we
are half-blind and full of errors. I believe that we understand very little,
and what we do understand is mostly wrong. I believe that life cannot be
survived—that is evident!—but if one is lucky, life can be endured for quite a
long while. If one is both lucky and stubborn, life can sometimes even be
enjoyed.”
~She was not afraid of
offending religion, as she frequently told her uncle; she was afraid of
offending something far more sacred to her: reason.
~You see, I have never felt
the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed
large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and
beautiful enough for others—why they must dream up new and marvelous spheres,
or long to live elsewhere, beyond this dominion . . . but that is not my
business. We are all different, I suppose.
The
Signature of All Things: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert ~Steel vise wrapped around her chest and squeezed so she felt like she was suffocating and she gasped for air, but beneath her panic she could hear the weary, calm voice of experience: You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.
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