I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back...
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
What data did you notice about the week, what stood out for you? What were your emotional reactions to the week? What made you happy? Where were you challenged? Where were you frustrated? What were your insights? What did you learn? What one or two things will you do based on this week?
I couldn’t decide if the dream was a good dream or a bad dream. Maybe a good dream because when I woke I wasn’t sad. Maybe that’s how you measured whether a dream was good or bad. By the way it made you feel.
There are some words I’ll never learn to spell.
We will train both mind and body when we accustom ourselves to cold, heat, thirst, hunger, scarcity of food, hardness of bed, abstaining from pleasures, and enduring pains.
Men compartmentalize these things in a way I don’t think women can. Men can say, ‘We’ve split up, life moves on, I’ll find someone else,’ and then never think about that person again. Women, I think, bruise more deeply, love longer.” He finished his mouthful of food. “You think Daisy will take me back?” “I think that if you feel the thunderbolt, you will love her whether or not she takes you back.” I could feel the sadness rise in me.
This transition from community to network life is truly at the heart of the increasing feelings of loneliness, anxiety, and anomie that many people experience in the modern age. We’ve never been so “connected” – and yet so isolated at the same time.
54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
I thought this the first time I laid eyes on you, that the shadow you cast on the ground is only half as dark as that of ordinary people.
I’m not a human. I’m a piece of machinery. I don’t need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.
When violence touched people, the damage didn’t stop once the deed was done. It burrowed into the soul and made itself at home.
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. ANONYMOUS.
Be still and know that I am God a.
He liked to talk when he was in bed. Dirty talk that had shockingly turned her on. With nothing more than his voice, he’d been able to coax her into forgetting everything except what he’d been doing to her. And she’d liked what he’d done to her. A lot. He’d been an intuitive, giving, demanding, fantastic lover, and now she worked for him. Good sweet baby Jesus. Those whisky eyes on hers, he hit the bathroom lock, the sound of the bolt sliding into place as loud as her accelerated breathing.
Living on earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the sun.
There might be some people who can stop you temporarily, but you are the only one who can do it permanentely.
PSA16.11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
I won’t hurt you,” he promised. “But right now, I have this need to destroy you.
We define a “true culture of quality” as an environment in which employees not only follow quality guidelines but also consistently see others taking quality-focused actions, hear others talking about quality, and feel quality all around them.