Jenna Bayley-Burke · 248 pages
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“Love. It is an incredible sensation. An amazing gift. All consuming and yet as light as a whisper. Once you've been in love you don't ever want to find yourself out of it.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“Raise your expectations. If he thinks you’re worth it he’ll rise to the occasion.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“Never give someone more than you’re willing to lose,”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“That brief moment of being loved is worth any pain you have to endure at losing it.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
“The man had a body that made her want to learn how to carve marble.”
― Jenna Bayley-Burke, quote from Compromising Positions
Jenna Bayley-Burke
Born place: in The United States
Born date May 15, 2018
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“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”
― quote from A Course in Miracles
“Страшна не сама смерть, не смертная боль от ножей жатки, не вопль, не окровавленные обрубки ног… но то, что так легко умереть, уйти из жизни прежде, чем снова созреет пшеница.”
― John Fowles, quote from Daniel Martin
“It struck me that Lee was in many ways our true hero. Lee was the one who did the dirtiest jobs, quietly, without fuss, without going into big emotional scenes. He was so efficient, so reliable, so brave. Whenever we fell short, he made up the gap. I'm not just talking about the red hot moments, when enemy soldiers were shooting at us, when we were within a moment of death. I'm talking about the sourer times too, when we were so tired we could hardly remember to breathe, or we were so bored we'd pick at each other just for something to do, or so distressed we'd wish a soldier would come along and blow us into oblivion with an M16. At all those times Lee stood strong. He was like the Wirrawee grain silo. You could see the grain silo from miles away, tall and reliable. It stood for Wirrawee, and it gave you a safe comforting feeling to know it was there. That was how I'd felt about Lee during the war.”
― John Marsden, quote from The Other Side of Dawn
“Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it is with me. And I was thinking, would he know me when I came to him? Yes! Sitting in his hall, he will see me sail into the bay, and he will run down to meet me on the shore; he will wade into the sea and pull my boat onto the sand and welcome me as his wayfaring brother. Why will he do this? Because he too has suffered, and he knows, Aeddan, he knows.” Beaming, Gunnar concluded, “Is that not good news?”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium
“في نمط الكينونة لا يكون التملك الخاص او الملكية الخاصة إلا أهمية وجدانية ضئيلة, حيث لا تنشأ الحاجة لامتلاك شيء لكي أستمتع به, او حتى لكي استعمله واستفيد منه, ففي نمط الكينونة يمكن لأكثر من شخص وفي الحقيقة يمكن لملايين الناس ان يشتركوا في الاستمتاع بالشيء نفسه, حيث لا توجد حاجة, كما لا يرغب أحد في امتلاكه كشرط للاستمتاع به, ولا يعني هذا منع وقوع صراغ فحسب, وانما يعني ايضا خلق اسمى شكل من اشكال السعادة الانسانية الا وهو المتعة المشتركة فليس أقدر على توجيد البشر دون النيل من ذاتيتهم من المشاركة في الاعجاب بشخص او محبته,او المشاركة في الاقتناع بفكرة, او في الطرب لاغنية او لقطعة موسيقية, او الاعجاب بصورة او رمز, او المشاركة في أداء الشعائر, او الاحساس المشترك بالأسى والحزن. إن متعة المشاركة هي التي تحتفظ بالحيوية في العلاقات بين اثنين وهي الأساس الذي قامت عليه كل الديانات وجميع الحركات السياسية والفلسفية الكبرى.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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