Gagandep Kaur > Gagandep 's Quotes

“The Tao, which is the Force, is fully present, alive, and unassailable by the illusions that cloud our vision as we plod through a world of shadows and distortions.”
― Alan Cohen, The Tao Made Easy: Timeless Wisdom to Navigate a Changing World

“An error. Another error. Yet, in his experience, refusal to acknowledge an error did not reset circumstance to an error-free state.”
― Sharon Lee, Dragon Ship

“You should look within for your answers. Your life is not determined by the stars. It is determined by your state of mind and the choices you make. Regardless of how the stars are configured, you are in charge of your journey. Make healthy choices, and even if adversity comes, the Tao will show you how to use it for your benefit.”
― Alan Cohen, The Tao Made Easy: Timeless Wisdom to Navigate a Changing World

“You did a fine job mending Maria’s dress.” “I was glad to help.” She looks down at her shoes, scuffed gray at the toes but polished all the same. She blushes, caught in the hot rush of some emotion, some thought she will never share with Anton. He offers an arm. “Shall we go in?” When the ceremony is over and the bells ring out brightly, Anton feels as tired as Elisabeth looks, as stunned and committed. They have said the holy words before God; they have taken the sacrament and made their pledge. There is no going backward now. Their road stretches out before them, straight”
― Olivia Hawker, The Ragged Edge of Night

“You were magical.” I whispered back, “I was?” Then everything was dark again and I could barely see her at all. “What does that mean?” I asked. “Just that.” Another flash of headlights lit up the front seat and I could see her mouth edging toward a smile, the light bleaching her beautiful face white, then slowly fading to black.”
― Sally Field, In Pieces

“Transcendent generosity is simply a willingness to be open and do whatever is necessary in the moment, without any philosophical or religious rationale. Seeing someone in need, you’re willing to share your wealth, your happiness, or your wisdom, and you’re also willing to share in the pain of others. Yet when you give, you need to do so with the awareness that your gift will be both appropriate and helpful.”
― Dzogchen Ponlop, Rebel Buddha: On the Road to Freedom

“Wingardium Leviosa: Temporarily gain the powers of telekinesis, the ability to move objects with your mind.”
― Sadler Mars, Harry Potter Spell and Potions Book: The Unofficial Book of Magic Spells and Potions

“Most important, my mother was also given the chance to study acting with the brilliant Charles Laughton, eventually becoming a member of his acting company, the Charles Laughton Players, performing Chekhov and Shakespeare in a small theater on Beverly Boulevard, on the outskirts of Hollywood. Not only did she find herself onstage with Mr. Laughton, but she had the amazing good fortune to be directed by him as well. These moments stayed alive in her always.”
― Sally Field, In Pieces

“I need help. Getting into the bath.” “Do you, now.” His voice was near-guttural. Elide bit her lip, her breasts becoming heavy, tingling. “I might slip.” His eyes drifted down her body, but he made no move. “A dangerous time, bath time.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“For a short time, one or two hours, stress does wonderful things for the brain,” Sapolsky told the conference. “More oxygen and glucose are delivered to the brain. The hippocampus, which is involved in memory, works better when you are stressed for a little while. Your brain releases more dopamine, which plays a role in the experience of pleasure, early on during stress; it feels wonderful, and your brain works better.”
― John J. Ratey, Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization

“All of them with wounds that wouldn’t heal because no one acknowledged they were bleeding, and yet each of them needing the other to be near. And that—I realize—is how this story fits into my life. These generations of women, weaving a pattern into a lifelong garment, unconsciously handed down from mother to daughter to granddaughter to me.”
― Sally Field, In Pieces

“The Google File System”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

“Martin Kleppmann: “Rethinking Caching in Web Apps,”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

“It is my second morning in Hill House, and I am unbelievably happy. Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long. Abandoning a lifelong belief that to name happiness is to dissipate it, she smiled at herself in the mirror and told herself silently, You are happy, Eleanor, you have finally been given a part of your measure of happiness. Looking away from her own face in the mirror, she thought blindly, Journeys end in lovers meeting, lovers meeting.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“I’d found myself again in the haunted eyes of a girl who was just as lost as I was.”
― T.M. Frazier, King

“What is different about meditation and a number of other practices like talk therapy or exercise or sound nutrition is that we are deliberately shaping our brains, intervening in the building process. Someone once argued that there is no choice”
― John J. Ratey, Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization

“मान्छे जहाँ पनि जाओस् , हिउँमा, हावामा, आफ्नो समस्या र स्थितिको एक टुक्रा राप लिएरै हिँड्दो रहेछ ।”
― Dhruba Chandra Gautam, अलिखित [Alikhit]

“To Schema on Read or to Schema on Write, That Is the Hadoop Data Lake Question”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

“Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, and Terry Winograd: “The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web,” Stanford InfoLab Technical Report 422, 1999.”
― Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

“The amount of information conveyed by the message increases as the amount of uncertainty as to what message actually will be produced becomes greater. A message which is one out of ten possible messages conveys a smaller amount of information than a message which is one out of a million possible messages. The entropy of communication theory is a measure of this uncertainty and the uncertainty, or entropy, is taken as the measure of the amount of information conveyed by a message from a source. The more we know about what message the source will produce, the less uncertainty, the less the entropy, and the less the information.”
― John Robinson Pierce, An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise

“a plain white note card tucked into Lady Indomitable’s belt and printed with the ambiguous phrase: “One cannot be brave who has no fear.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“Chicago. He said he had to. “I have to do this,” he said as he tried to steady himself after the stoning, “to expose myself—to bring this hate into the open.” He had marched in the deepest corners of Alabama but was unprepared for what he was in for in Chicago. “I have seen many demonstrations in the South,” he said that violent day in the Promised Land. “But I have never seen anything so hostile and so hateful as I’ve seen here today.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“perfectly ordinary things turned eerie and strange.”
― Stefan Bachmann, The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister

“Success and failure do not exist in the present, only effort and action exist.”
― Arno Ilgner, The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training For Climbers

“Alternatives to “Bae” The one who wins all of the arguments, the keeper of the remote, the girl who turns my stomach into a butterfly nest, the pink Starburst, the one I will always choose first no matter what else is in the pack, the red Kool-Aid, the right amount of sugar, the pulp, the part that makes the juice seem real.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“Whenever human beings consciously change their thought vibrations they can change their life. Mantras are the thought vibrations.”
― Amit Ray, Mantra Design Fundamentals - Basics of mantra forms, structures, compositions, and formulas

“I hope I haven’t already driven past my greatest moments. I hope there is something beautiful on the horizon that’s just as impatient as I am. Something so eager, it wants to meet me halfway. A moment that is diligently staring at its watch, trembling with nervousness, frustrated, and bursting at the seams, wondering what’s taking me so long to arrive.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.”
― Cesare Pavese

“When you have no hope, you have nothing to fear, nothing to be ashamed of, and nothing to lose.”
― Dzogchen Ponlop, Rebel Buddha: On the Road to Freedom

“There’s no point in ruminating over a missed attempt because stacking guilt and shame on top of what you perceive as a poor performance only makes it harder to get back on track.41 Let the past be in the past, forgive yourself quickly and get back in the game as fast as you can.”
― Patrik Edblad, The Habit Blueprint: 15 Simple Steps to Transform Your Life