“Here's a nice image for a life in balance,” she said. “You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass.”
“I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“if you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“If you’re going around in circles, maybe you’re cutting corners.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“waiting in hospitals is as close as we get to being in hell before our time,”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“up beside the car. Then he pulled out a Sig Sauer”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“I told the truth and shamed the devil.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“He wanted an heir, a tiny piece of immortality.”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
“I climbed out of my old Porsche in the staff”
― James Patterson, quote from Roses are Red
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“Living all alone! The freedom! Rather than being known as the Human Calculator, I’d be That Really Cool Chick Who Lives by Herself and Plays the Guitar Just Like Jewel!
Or I’m sure they’d say that if I actually played the guitar”
― Piper Banks, quote from Geek High
“Our attractions and repulsions to people, places, and things seem to flow over a bell-shaped curve. We notice three phases in the curve: rising, cresting, falling. We hear a song and get to love it (rising interest), so we buy the CD and listen to it constantly (cresting enjoyment). Then we listen less frequently (falling off of interest), and finally, what was the best song we ever heard is rarely listened to again. Its appeal went over the hill of the bell curve. This same bell curve happens with repulsions, as the story of Beauty and the Beast depicts. At first Beauty felt disgust, but later she felt love. Since it is a fairy tale, the positive high crest remains: “happily ever after.” Demanding that the high crest of any experience be permanent is living in a fairy tale. Another”
― David Richo, quote from The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
“When would I learn the secret of happy, contented teamwork? Why did I always want to be the last link? If I would love the Lord with all my mind, I had to give Him all that I thought I knew or could do, and be willing for Him to place me anywhere within the team to do any job He chose for me. Only then would I exprience true peace of mind.”
― quote from Living Sacrifice: Willing to Be Whittled as an Arrow
“our mastery of worldly phenomena will simply change the particular ways we suffer and not our understanding of the nature of suffering.”
― Philip Kapleau, quote from The Three Pillars of Zen
“Who wants you dead, Max?"
"You, apparently. I didn't realize I was such a poor dinner companion.”
― Nancy Gideon, quote from Masked by Moonlight
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