It Is In Things. Quotes
Or the woman in front of me in the security line who asked if they would put her cat, Dave, through the luggage X-ray machine because she wanted to see if he'd eaten a necklace.
It’s hard to see what’s good, what’s right, when you’re in the middle of it
The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.
Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.
Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.
I couldn't imagine myself doing it anymore. It was part of my life that had ended for me, and here was my chance to set out on a fresh course
I do not know how to thank you.''I can tell you, ' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.''That will not be enough, ' said Okonkwo.'Then kill yourself, ' said Obierika.
This world is not a wonderful place where unfortunately many evil things happen
Thank you' is a wonderful phrase. Use it. It will add stature to your soul.
There is no story that is not true, " said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.
Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena.
These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.
The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.
Both fictions and memories are recalled and retold. They're both forms of stories. Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other.
We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.
People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.
We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...
Leaps of faith tend to favour those with long legs.
Everyone’s perception is different
He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .
I never understood desire until i felt your hands around my throat.
Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.
I was moving forward into space, but i would never come home again
One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be.
To be able to possess a machine in such a way is the ultimate show of determination and awareness. It makes one realize that the physicality of our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak
To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.
it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46).
Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not." -Beatrix Whittaker
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing
Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.
Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.
Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson
I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for what I and they contribute.
But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.
Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.
Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others.
He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, though not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.
Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.
The greatest gifts are those that say, “I know you”.