When we have nothing else, even despair can be a weapon. The Ikessar Falcon
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Quote:- When we know what we are trying to achieve, we are less likely to be swayed by uninformed opinions and more inclined to make principled and ethical decisions.
The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World
Author:- Steve Pemberton
Category:- motivational
Quote:- When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
Cosmos
Author:- Carl Sagan
Category:- science
Quote:- When we loosen our hold on our emotions, they no longer have a hold on us.
Author:- Grace in Tension by Claire McGarry
Category:- hope,motivational
Quote:- When we loosen our hold on our emotions, they no longer have a hold on us.
Category:- hope,motivational
Quote:- When we love another person, it is we who love. The other may ignite our love but it is we who decide to love. We need to magnify our decision to love whether people love us or not.
Touched by Love
Author:- Donna Goddard
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Author:- M. Scott Peck
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
The Alchemist
Author:- Paulo Coelho
Category:- hope,inspiration
Quote:- When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?
Author:- jay woodman
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- When we mentally give a person, place, or point in time more credit than ourselves, we create a fictitious ceiling. A restriction over the expectations that we have over our own performance in that moment. We get tense. We focus on the outcome instead of the activity and we miss the doing of the deed. We either think the world depends on the result or it's too good to be true. But it doesn't and it isn't. And it's not our right to believe it does or is. Don't create imaginary constraints. A leading role, a blue ribbon, a winning score, a great idea, the love of our life, euphoric bliss... Who are we to think we don't deserve these fortunes when they're in our grasp? Who are we to think we haven't earned them? If we stay and process within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line. Why? Because we're not thinking of the finish line. We're not looking at the clock. We’re not watching ourselves on the Jumbotron performing. We are performing in real time where the approach is the destination.
Greenlights
Author:- Matthew McConaughey
Category:- motivational
Quote:- When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasure we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives. We believe that the untried soul, trapped in its young prison, might have flown free and known the joy that we still seek.
Damage
Author:- Josephine Hart
Category:- time
Quote:- When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same time not here because we're already in the process of going elsewhere, if you see what I mean. To stop de-structuring yourself, you have to stop moving altogether. Either you move and you're no longer whole, or you're whole and you can't move.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Author:- Muriel Barbery
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Author:- bell hooks
Category:- hope
Quote:- When we pray we admit defeat.
The Wanting Seed
Author:- Anthony Burgess
Category:- motivational
Quote:- When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid.
Essays and Aphorisms
Author:- arthur schopenhauer
Category:- science
Quote:- When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Author:- Steve Maraboli
Category:- motivational,Relationships
Quote:- When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch!
Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy
Author:- Felix Alba-Juez
Category:- science,philosophy
Quote:- When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When we see a good-looking man with a not-so-good-looking woman, we assume that she must be good in bed.
Author:- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- When we see beauty, we’re seeing a part of ourselves, a reflection in time. Ask me the time, Zara.What time is it?It’s perhaps a time.Perhaps a time, what kind of a time is perhaps a time? Zara asks, somewhat curiously amused.The ‘that’ part, that’s the part of the kind of ‘perhaps a time’ we’re talking about.What’s the ‘that’ part?It’s the part found in anytime.Anytime? A confused look knits on Zara’s brow.Yes, ‘perhaps a time’ is ‘anytime’, but you need a place, ‘anyplace’ to find anytime.Anyplace to find anytime? Do you have any idea how mad you sound?Oh, it’s such a colorful thing this void of mine. It’s all sparkly, fluffy and light, twinned with the inevitability of life. Besides, I only sound mad when I’m ‘anywhere’, dear.Where the hell is anywhere? Zara asks, this time very confused.Sometimes it’s up, sometimes it’s down. Anywhere oh anywhere a place we sow confusion all around.
Author:- J.L. Haynes
Category:- time