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"“Just seeing someone else smile activates some of the same neurons as when you smile. The other person is effectively smiling in your brain, which makes you happy and likely to smile, which in turn passes the smile into someone else's brain.”" — 4 hours, 58 min ago
"“Just seeing someone else smile activates some of the same neurons as when you smile. The other person is effectively smiling in your brain, which makes you happy and likely to smile, which in turn passes the smile into someone else's brain.”" — 4 hours, 58 min ago
“The blessing of Google is its uncanny skill in finding what you're looking for; the curse is that it so rarely finds any of those lovely odd things you're -not- looking for. For that pleasure, it seems, we need -books.-
(Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges)”
― Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant
(Bran Flakes and Harmless Drudges)”
― Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant
“They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.”
― 1984
― 1984
“There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island and on that island there is an altar and standing guard before that altar is the 'angel with the flaming sword.' Nothing can get by that angel to be placed upon that altar unless it has the mark of your inner authority. Nothing passes 'the angel with the flaming sword' to be placed upon your altar unless it be a part of 'the fluid area of your consent.' This is your crucial link with the Eternal.”
― Meditations of the Heart
― Meditations of the Heart
“Even more powerful than fate is the courage that bears it steadfastly.”
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
― Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
“By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don’t like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.”
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