“Princesa came to rancho one day after her owner no want her. Says too much horse for him, too wild. But he's wrong. She's not wild, she's spirited. 'Wild' means 'I no care about what I do.' But 'spirited' means, 'I love what I do.' Big difference.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“Maybe what matters is not so much the path as who walks beside you.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“West looks up. 'This is the best time to hunt, when the animals are out looking for their suppers. 'Course, with a painted sky, light's not always good.' I never heard someone call the sky painted before, but it's the perfect word. Clouds outlined in gold streak across the firmament, casting uneven shadows over the landscape.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“no one ever injured an eye by looking at the bright side.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“Maybe life just tastes sweeter after you’ve licked death.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“I pat my mule's neck and find comfort in the silky tufts of her mane. Father told me not to brood when people judged me for my wrapper, not my filling, or I would spend my whole life in the steamer.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“You miss being a girl? I ask her.
Not as much as I thought I would. Just feels like when I'm being a boy, I can cut a wider path.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“Your head’s like a room and when you’s forced to stay in it, you gotta deal with all the trash that’s left in there.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“Just like life.” “What?” “The clouds. They never hold still. Sometimes you think you’re seeing one thing, and a second later, the whole picture changes.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“I don’t understand the constant need to prove one’s manhood, as if it is always on the verge of slipping away. We never need to prove our womanhood.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“I kiss him good-bye in my head, bidding farewell to the one I have loved in silence.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“I bet those boys bit their way out of the womb,” Andy whispers.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“My showmanship only comes out when I hold the violin—with Lady Tin-Yin in my arms, I don’t care who watches. A peace comes over me, something I call my violin calm.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“There's a Chinese principle called yuanfen, which means your fate with someone else [...] Two people with strong yuanfen have a greater chance of meeting in their lifetimes, and can become as close as family.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“We carry around the light of our loved ones who have passed. It is they who light the path for us.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“You ever think about the noose?'
'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“We carry around the light of our loved ones who have passed. It is they who light the path for us.” “Passed?”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then it's written in the stars, and we can't do much to avoid it.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“You want my take, there’s nothing wrong with matching people up according to the stars, because at least someone gave a thought to it. Lots of deuces leap the altar ’cause they like getting sacked, and lots of girls agree ’cause they think they got no choice. Ain’t fair to the human race, and that’s the short of it.”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
“I don’t understand the constant need to prove one’s manhood, as if it is always on the verge of slipping away. We never need to prove our womanhood. “You”
― Stacey Lee, quote from Under a Painted Sky
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“The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.”
― Timothy J. Keller, quote from The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“What broke her in the end was to see that Dari, moving quietly in the snow, was tracing his flower neatly with a thin branch in the growing dark while tears were pouring down his face without surcease.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Wandering Fire
“The word “coherence” literally means holding or sticking together, but it is usually used to refer to a system, an idea, or a worldview whose parts fit together in a consistent and efficient way. Coherent things work well: A coherent worldview can explain almost anything, while an incoherent worldview is hobbled by internal contradictions. …
Whenever a system can be analyzed at multiple levels, a special kind of coherence occurs when the levels mesh and mutually interlock. We saw this cross-level coherence in the analysis of personality: If your lower-level traits match up with your coping mechanisms, which in turn are consistent with your life story, your personality is well integrated and you can get on with the business of living. When these levels do not cohere, you are likely to be torn by internal contradictions and neurotic conflicts. You might need adversity to knock yourself into alignment. And if you do achieve coherence, the moment when things come together may be one of the most profound of your life. … Finding coherence across levels feels like enlightenment, and it is crucial for answering the question of purpose within life.
People are multilevel systems in another way: We are physical objects (bodies and brains) from which minds somehow emerge; and from our minds, somehow societies and cultures form. To understand ourselves fully we must study all three levels—physical, psychological, and sociocultural. There has long been a division of academic labor: Biologists studied the brain as a physical object, psychologists studied the mind, and sociologists and anthropologists studied the socially constructed environments within which minds develop and function. But a division of labor is productive only when the tasks are coherent—when all lines of work eventually combine to make something greater than the sum of its parts. For much of the twentieth century that didn’t happen — each field ignored the others and focused on its own questions. But nowadays cross-disciplinary work is flourishing, spreading out from the middle level (psychology) along bridges (or perhaps ladders) down to the physical level (for example, the field of cognitive neuroscience) and up to the sociocultural level (for example, cultural psychology). The sciences are linking up, generating cross-level coherence, and, like magic, big new ideas are beginning to emerge.
Here is one of the most profound ideas to come from the ongoing synthesis: People gain a sense of meaning when their lives cohere across the three levels of their existence.”
― Jonathan Haidt, quote from The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Things change. Life changes. Nothing stays the same.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from A Knight of the Word
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I'd lose my fucking mind...”
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