“A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born! ”
― Elise Broach, quote from Masterpiece
“A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger.”
― Elise Broach, quote from Masterpiece
“The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.”
― Elise Broach, quote from Masterpiece
“The treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work.
—Albrecht Durer”
― Elise Broach, quote from Masterpiece
“That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.”
― Elise Broach, quote from Masterpiece
“A good friend is someone you can count on. No matter what.”
― Elise Broach, quote from Masterpiece
“He HAD seen the world. It had been scary at times, but also exhilarating. Who could have imagined it would be such a complicated, interesting place?...When you saw different parts of the world, you saw different parts of yourself. And when you stayed home, where it was safe, those parts of yourself also stayed hidden. ”
― Elise Broach, quote from Masterpiece
“This was different: the feeling of being chosen. Out of everybody in the world...this boy had picked him as the one he liked best of all.”
― Elise Broach, quote from Masterpiece
“He remembered hearing Karl tell James once that it was hard for people to ever know what they really looked like. Reflections in mirrors weren’t accurate, Karl said, because when you stared at yourself in a mirror, you subconsciously composed your face in a way that wasn’t your natural expression.
Marvin wondered it that was true when you were with strangers too. Maybe you only looked like your true self with the people you loved. And maybe that was a face you yourself hardly ever got to see…”
― Elise Broach, quote from Masterpiece
“The most important things in a friendship didn’t have to be said out loud. James”
― Elise Broach, quote from Masterpiece
Elise Broach
Born place: in Atlanta, GA, The United States
Born date September 20, 1963
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“Q. Positive means not negative? A. Yes, and much more besides. An emotion that cannot become negative gives enormous understanding, has an enormous cognitive value. It connects things that cannot be connected in an ordinary state. To have positive emotions is advised and recommended in religions, but they do not say how to get them. They say, ‘Have faith, have love’. How? Christ says, ‘Love your enemies’. It is not for us; we cannot even love our friends. It is the same as saying to a blind man, ‘You must see!’ A blind man cannot see, otherwise he would not be a blind man. That is what positive emotion means. Q. How can we learn to love our enemies? A. Learn to love yourself first—you do not love yourself enough; you love your false personality, not yourself. It is difficult to understand the New Testament or Buddhist writings, for they are notes taken in school. One line of these writings refers to one level and another to another level.”
― P.D. Ouspensky, quote from The Fourth Way
“Some months earlier one of his oldest friends, Junto charter member Hugh Roberts, had written with news of the club and how the political quarreling in Philadelphia had continued to divide the membership. Franklin expressed hope that the squabbles would not keep Roberts from the meetings. “’tis now perhaps one of the oldest clubs, as I think it was formerly one of the best, in the King’s dominions; it wants but about two years of forty since it was established.” Few men were so lucky as to belong to such a group. “We loved and still love one another; we are grown grey together and yet it is too early to part. Let us sit till the evening of life is spent; the last hours were always the most joyous. When we can stay no longer ’tis time enough then to bid each other good night, separate, and go quietly to bed.” And”
― H.W. Brands, quote from The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
“Rafe jumped Miller!” Gabe said. The problem was, it was true. There were about three dozen witnesses.”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
“ان نظام ما بعد الشمولية يلاحق الانسان بمبرراته في كل خطوة يخطوها تقريبا. يلاحقه بالطبع مرتديا قفازات الأيديولوجية. فالحياة فيه متشابكة كنسيج طحلباني من الكذب والأدعاء. ان حكومة البيرقراطية تسمى حكومة الشعب, وباسم الطبقة العاملة يتم استعباد الطبقة العاملة, الإذلال المستشري للإنسان يفسر على انه تحرير كامل للإنسان, ويطلق على حجب المعلومات تداول المعلومات, والتلاعب بالقوة التحكم العام في القوة والتعسف في استعمال القوة حفظ النظام العام, وقمع الثقافة تنمية الثقافة. كما يفسر نشر التأثير الامبريالي على انه دعم المضطهدين, والحجر على حرية الرأي على انه اعلى درجات الحرية, وتزوير الانتخابات على أنه قمة الديمقراطية, ومنع حركة التفكير على أنه أفضل اللآراء العلمية العالمية, والاحتلال على انه مساعدة الأشقاء. ان السلطة حبيسة الكاذبين, لذلك عليهم ان يزوروا. يزوروا الماضي والحاضر والمستقبل كما يزرون الاحصائيات. يدعون انهم لا يملكون الآلة الشرطية الجبارة والمهيمنة. يدعون انهم لا يدعون شيء.
ليس مطلوبا من الإنسان ان يصدق هذه التعمية. لكنه يجب ان يتصرف على انه يصدقها او يقبلها صاغرا, او يتعامل بصورة مقبولة مع من يتبعها.
لهذا هو مجبر ان يعيش في الكذب.
انه غير مضطر الى ان يصدق الكذب. يكفي ان يتقبل الحياة بكذبها ويتعايش معه. وبهذا يدعم النظام ويؤيده ويجعل من نفسه جزءا منه.”
― Václav Havel, quote from The Power of the Powerless
“Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to go through life thinking that there is something wrong with us when we experience sadness, grief, and physical and emotional pain. The first truth points out that this is just the way it is. There is nothing wrong with you: you have just been born into a realm where pain is a given.”
― Noah Levine, quote from Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
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