“You don't blast a heart open. You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.”— Melody Beattie, amazon.com
“When you move slower than the world, and breathe more deeply than the world, you awaken a consciousness beyond any world.”— Matt Kahn, amazon.com
“The flip side of all of this: Epley notes that just as we’re more likely to anthropomorphize and name certain objects, there are also certain conditions that make us more inclined to dehumanize something. In Epley’s 2016 study on voice and anthropomorphizing, his team also found that when we strip a…”— Stephanie Bucklin, thecut.com
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes sh…”— Angela Duckworth, amazon.com
“One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday.”— Angela Duckworth, amazon.com
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the cl…”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“When those dreams you're dreamin' come to you, when the work you put in is realized... Let yourself feel the pride, but always stay humble and kind. I know you've got mountains to climb, but always stay humble and kind.”— Tim McGraw, open.spotify.com
“Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook—he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.”— George Horace Lorimer, amazon.com
“But it isn’t enough to be all right in this world; you’ve got to look all right as well, because two-thirds of success is making people think you are all right.”— George Horace Lorimer, amazon.com
“Poverty never spoils a good man, but prosperity often does. It’s easy to stand hard times, because that’s the only thing you can do, but in good times the fool-killer has to do night work.”— George Horace Lorimer, amazon.com
“Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook—he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.”— George Horace Lorimer, amazon.com
“Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at i…”— Joyce Carol Oates, amazon.com
“It’s odd, but wouldn’t you say that in our universe of worked-out bodies and worked-out minds, that to be receptive is looked upon as 'weak,' a passive vessel for someone else’s love and dreams? So, instead of embracing the generosity inherent in being able to accept love, the receptors among us pun…”— Martha Nussbaum, amazon.com
“Instead of mopping up shallowly reductive ideas in the world and using them to inform our internal perspectives, we are taking our own deepest wisdom and applying it to our everyday lives. This is the spiritual journey. It varies for every individual. Don’t be a sucker for ideology; don’t assume tha…”— Charlie Ambler, thedailyzen.org
“Myth: Serial killers are all dysfunctional loners. The majority of serial killers are not reclusive, social misfits who live alone. They are not monsters and may not appear strange. Many serial killers hide in plain sight within their communities.”— Katherine Ramsland, psychologytoday.com
“How can we reverse the negativity that surrounds being receptive — to love, to someone else’s dreams? What are we supposed to do with this space? Stare down into it? Put flowers in it? Shout out to the less receptive among us that there is nothing wrong with saying what one wants, including love? I…”— Hilton Als, amazon.com
“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”— Joyce Carol Oates, amazon.com