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Posted in Quotes on Mar 25th, 2008
“We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.” — Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Posted in Quotes on Mar 19th, 2008
“We tend to see our own behavior as reactive. (’I don’t like John, so I’m curt with him.’ ‘I like Jim, so I’ll do anything for him.’) But we tend to see others as absolute. (’John is a difficult person.’ ‘Jim is a sweetheart.’)” — Deborah Tannen, Talking from 9 to 5
Posted in Quotes on Mar 13th, 2008
“We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who — and how — we want to be in the world.” — Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroanatomist
Posted in Quotes on Mar 12th, 2008
By Jill Davis Doughtie
“We have to choose, not knowing.” — Elizabeth George Speare
This quote is from The Bronze Bow, a kids’ historical fiction novel. The quote is about religious faith — how we have to choose what to believe or not believe without knowing for sure what is true.
But I think of it a [...]
Posted in Quotes on Mar 12th, 2008
“There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.” — Peter Drucker
Posted in Quotes on Mar 12th, 2008
“Respond, don’t react.” — Unknown
By Jill Davis Doughtie
“Psychoanalysts have revealed some of the ways in which the tales represent our secret fears and preoccupations - from being devoured to having a mother or stepmother who either starves you or stuffs you with food in order to eat you up.” — A.S. Byatt, “Happily Ever After“
There’s something about feeding and [...]
“When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appears before him. His throat will close, and spots of nausea and rage swim in his vision. It is hard, [...]
Posted in Quotes on Mar 7th, 2008
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.” — Buddha
Posted in Quotes on Mar 7th, 2008
“Forgiveness . . . does not necessarily involve the reestablishment of the relationship with the transgressor. . . . Forgiveness does not mean excusing . . . or a denial of harm . . . or an unwillingness to accept what has occurred. . . . ['F]orgive and forget’ is a misnomer, inasmuch as forgiving [...]
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