Life often seems to be “about” paying attention – and the general trend seems to be toward an ever more attentive way of life. Behind the crisis of distraction, in short, there is what amounts to a crisis of attention: the more valuable and in demand attention becomes, the more problematic even innocuous distractions seem to be.
This is wrong, wrong, wrong. So why does it feel so damn right.
This is just getting weird.
Empty him of his confidence by highlighting his failures so that therefore his head will be far more easily swelled with adulations and self-confidences.
Water – the ace of elements. Water dives from the clouds without parachute, wings or safety net. Water runs over the steepest precipice and blinks not a lash. Water is buried and rises again; water walks on fire and fire gets the blisters.
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Someday I’ll catch that man without a quotation and he’ll look undressed,” the Duke said.
Billie Katherine Lourd Is the daughter of Carrie Fisher and Brian Lourd. She thinks she would do a good job playing Princess Leia. But really, she wouldn’t.” -Anonymous.
I hope we’re never perfect,” I say.
By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. Purity and impurity belong to oneself, no one can purify another.
She leans her forehead to her elbow as she surveys the patio like it’s her kingdom.
What is essential, though, is to marry your long-term goal with short-term critical moves.
The memory was like a stab to her heart.
I’m wasting time with ghosts.
The evidence is clear that increasing the severity of punishment is a far less effective deterrent than increasing the perception that a person will be caught and sanctioned. With respect to interrogations, experiments reveal the benefits.
They were considering adding Mandarin and Spanish. ‘The little girl was so exhausted and on edge she was terrified of opening her mouth.
104Bea a community that calls for what is good, urges what is right, and forbids what is wrong: those who do this are the successful ones.
If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
I do not aim with my hand; she who aims with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. “ ‘I aim with my eye.’ ” “Good.” “ ‘I do not shoot with my hand; she who shoots with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. “ ‘I shoot with my mind.’ ” “So it has ever been, Susannah Dean.” “ ‘I do not kill with my gun; she who kills with her gun has forgotten the face of her father. “ ‘I kill with my heart.
Something about the vastness and beauty of nature makes the self feel small and insignificant, and anything that shrinks the self creates an opportunity for spiritual experience.