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Quotes by Swedish Authors
"When it comes to terror, reality's got nothing on the power of the imagination."
"There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond."
"Anita is small and colourless in her grey trousers, grey knitted cardigan, grey hair and grey skin. But ove notices that her face is slightly red-eyed and swollen. Quickly she wipes her eyes and blinks away the pain. As women of that generation do. As if they stood in the doorway every morning, determinedly driving sorrow out of the house with a broom."
"Love means to understand the drama that happens between the inner man and woman. It means to allow both the inner man and woman to find their creative roots and expression."
"What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them."
"Your heart is your compass in the journey of life, follow it."
"Your heart is the roots to God.Your heart is nourished by truth, by God, but you have forgotten the heart.Come back to the heart, and you will be able to know the truth.You will be able to know the truth as the truth and the false as the false."
"The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false."
"When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy."
"I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that I do not trust that life takes care of me. But now I discover a silent place in the depth of my inner being, where I am already one with life, where I am OK as I am. It is also a silent inner place of healing and wholeness, where I can find a love and acceptance for that which is imperfect within myself."
"When times get tough and your path gets rough, just hold on. You'll get there soon enough."
"And in an apartment on the other side of town, everyone wakes up with a start when the hound in the first-floor flat, without any warning, starts howling. Louder and more heartrendingly than anything they have ever heard coming out of the primal depths of any animal. As if it is singing with the sorrow and yearning of an eternity of ten thousand fairy tales. It howls for hours, all through the night, until dawn. And when the morning light seeps into the hospital room, Elsa wakes up in Granny's arms. But Granny is still in Miamas."
"She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life."
"Just don't waste time trying to change what you can't."
"Presence is about how every action can arise from the quality, which we call awareness " the presence of our inner being, the presence of our soul. It is a large difference between working with people from the inner being and working with people from duty or a specific technique. Through working from the inner being, we can touch the soul of the other person, while we can only touch the personality of the other person, his surface and periphery, if we just work from a technique."
"She's fifteen, above the age of consent, and he's seventeen, but he's still 'the boy in every conversation. She's 'the young woman.Words are not small things."
"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
"When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us."
"In the beginning the queen had been a courageous and fair-minded princess very much liked by all, but unfortunately she grew up and became a frightened adult, as adults tend to be. She started loving efficiency and avoiding conflict. As adults do."
"They say live it how you want toOr else someone else will.This is my life, and I willLive it."
"For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom."
"Intuition is to develop a trust in yourself, and to the silent whisperings of your heart. If you trust yourself, you can trust others, you can trust existence."
"Traditionally men have created a deep split between the inner and outer world, between body and soul, between the material and spiritual world, between love and money and between male and female qualities. The inner man and woman are related to money, creativity and financial abundance. Through investigating the roots of the inner man and woman, we can find the creative potential of both the inner man and woman. Sometimes can either the inner man or woman also provide financial support for both sides, while the other side has the idea that it cannot support itself financially."
"Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself."
"When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with the attitude: "Nobody loves me" or "Nobody cares about me", which can make it hard for other people to love us."
"Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens. In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear, loneliness and frustration."
"Nothing is finished unless it is started. So just start where you are."
"Maybe their sorrow over children that never came should have brought the two men closer. But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead."
"No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction."
"In life, most decisions are a case of let go to get."
"People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had."
"One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say."
"You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color."
"The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings."
"Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno."
"If all work and no play makes you dull,Then you're on the wrong job."
"Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception."
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