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"The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light."
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"It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God's principles in them."
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Personal Development
"To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults."
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Personal Development
"Nothing comes to our lives without a purpose. Accept it with love and kindness and learn from it."
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Personal Development
"Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities."
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Personal Development
"Understanding is to knowledge what the flesh is to the body. Insight is to wisdom what life is to the soul."
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Personal Development
"God tells you where to look, love tells you what to see."
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Personal Development
"Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition."
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"By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU."
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Personal Development
"For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU."
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Personal Development
"If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all."
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"Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it."
Struggle
"You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the way you see a table square or a Montclair lip-read. Kids today... you kids today somehow don't know how to feel, much less love, to say nothing of respect. We're just bodies to you. We're just bodies and shoulders and scarred knees and big bellies and empty wallets and flasks to you. I'm not saying something cliché like you take us for granted so much as I'm saying you cannot... imagine our absence. We're so present it's ceased to mean. We're environmental. Furniture of the world."
Family
"In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he finds himself floating in. And when I teach school now I always teach Crane's horrific "The Open Boat," and get all bent out of shape when the kids find the story dull or jaunty-adventurish: I want them to feel the same marrow-level dread of the oceanic I've always felt, the intuition of the sea as primordial nada, bottomless, depths inhabited by cackling tooth-studded things rising toward you at the rate a feather falls."
Fear
"It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it."
Wisdom
"You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal."
Creativity
"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
Talk
"What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration."
Creativity
"Its emotional character is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency -sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping silent, living or dying- are not just unpleasant but literally horrible."
Emotion
"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
God
"Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you."
Society
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