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#1

“When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

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#2

“People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

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#3

“Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

tags: desire

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#4

“Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle.

Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be banal enough, but were spoken so sweetly that listeners would find themselves remembering not what she said but how she said it.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

tags: one-woman-spectacle

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#5

“Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

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#6

“Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

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#7

“Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

tags: interesting

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#8

“The Shadow. It cannot be grasped. Chase your shadow and it will, flee; turn your back on it and it will follow you. It is also a person’s dark side, the thing that makes them mysterious. After they have given us pleasure, the shadow of their withdrawal makes us yearn for their return, much as clouds make us yearn for the sun.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

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#9

“PSYCHOLOGY OF LOVE, TRANSLATED BY JOAN RIVIÈRE”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

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#10

“Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland

tags: earn, fair, forgive, forgiven, forgiveness, good, lives, murderers, redemption, restoration, restore, work

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#11

“Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#12

“To be in Christ -- that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you -- that is sanctification!”
― Major W. Ian Thomas

tags: christ, redemption, sanctification

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#13

“Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.”
― Evinda Lepins

tags: circumstances, god, god-s-plan, god-s-will, life, life-lessons, redemption, writing

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#14

“Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray--where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.”
― Sherry L. Hoppe, A Matter of Conscience: Redemption of a Hometown Hero, Bobby Hoppe

tags: conscience, redemption

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#15

“Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.”
― Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

tags: 335, hurricane, katrina, new-orleans, redemption, zeitoun

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#16

“I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

tags: absolution, forgiveness, immorality, redemption, religion, responsibility, scapegoating, sin

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#17

“When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#18

“In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.”
― Mark Rowlands, The Philosopher and the Wolf

tags: animal, defiance, heart, inspiring, learning, philosophy, redemption, wolf

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#19

“When a relationship of love is disrupted, the relationship does not cease. The love continues; therefore, the relationship continues. The work of grief is to reconcile and redeem life to a different love relationship.”
― W. Scott Lineberry

tags: grief, love, redemption

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#20

“[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

tags: redemption

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#21

“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: abused, beginnings, choices, compassion, cruelty, dignity, empowerment, endings, experiences, final-chapters, forgiveness, games, gossip, hurt, image, injustice, justice, lies, life-lessons, mocking, new-journeys, played-with, redemption, repentance, restoration, rumors, self-confidence, self-worth, truth

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#22

“If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.”
― A.W. Tozer, Preparing for Jesus' Return: Daily Live the Blessed Hope

tags: easter, jesus-christ, redemption, salvation

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#23

“Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends.”
― Beth Bernobich

tags: friendship, redemption

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#24

“It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: finding-yourself, individuality, purpose, recovery, redemption, special

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#25

“Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold
And like the sky my soul is also turnin'
Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind”
― Ray Lamontagne, God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise

tags: accomplishment, epiphany, gold, heart, moving-on, redemption, reflecting, reflection, reflective, rejuvenation, sky, soul, uplifting

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#26

“The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter

tags: attraction, love, redemption, soulmates

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#27

“I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

tags: god, health, love, redemption, wholeness

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#28

“Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: redemption

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#29

“Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

tags: hurt, love, pain, redemption, scars, suffering

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#30

“Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: deity, deliverance, doctrine, eternity, holy-religions, humor, murder, mystery, penalty, redemption, sin, sinners, understanding

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