"How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?"

-- Ellen Goodman

#Exercise Quotes #Joy Quotes #Lists Quotes

“Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort, but few who desire His suffering. All want to rejoice with him, but few are willing to suffer for Him. He writes; there are many who admire his miracles, but there are few who follow in the humiliation of the cross.”
“The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.”
“I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.”
“Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.”
“Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.”
“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”
“Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.”

Source : Iris Johansen (2010). “One Touch of Topaz”, p.59, Bantam
“Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.”

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