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“SUMMARY: UPHOLDER LIKELY STRENGTHS: Self-starter Self-motivated Conscientious Reliable Thorough Sticks to a schedule Eager to understand and meet expectations”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better

“SUMMARY: QUESTIONER LIKELY STRENGTHS: Data-driven Fair-minded (according to his or her judgment) Interested in creating systems that are efficient and effective Willing to play devil’s advocate Comfortable bucking the system if it’s warranted Inner-directed Unwilling to accept authority without justification”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better

“All thinking that is imbued with wonder is graceful and gracious thinking. Thought”
― John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

“Each one of us is the custodian of an inner world that we carry around with us.”
― John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

“and warm awareness, you are going to have an incredible life. You are going to have sufferings as well, but you will always return to that place of warmth and fire within yourself.”
― John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

“breakthroughs in the evolution of human consciousness will be the recognition of the subtle complexity and the hidden inner world that animals carry around with them. The innocence and silence of the animal world has a huge subtlety to it that is anything but dumb, but rather notices everything and is present in everything. Animals carry a huge ministry of witness to the silence of time and to the depth of nature. They are like the landscape in a sense: they live too in the mode of silence.”
― John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

“Meister Eckhart said that nothing in the universe resembles God so much as silence, so if you think about silence in that sense, then to come into silence is to come into the presence of the Divine. In a way, you allow yourself to be enfolded by that stillness. In a real sense, the deepest thing in a human heart is not the verbiage but is actually that still silence—not the silence of Buddhism, which often seems to me maybe something anonymous—but is the silence of intimacy where no word is needed and where a word would actually be a fracture.”
― John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

“The real mystery is not that things are the way they are, but that there is something rather than nothing.”
― John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

“And here are we, even if we are old, we still have time, and time is always full of possibility. It would really be a great gift that an old person could give to themselves, the gift of recognizing the possibilities that are in that time, and to use their imagination. The imagination is the gateway to a full life, and people who awaken their imagination come in to a force field of possibility and there are doors opening everywhere. I think it is unknown what you can do if you begin to see it.”
― John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

“Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The most important is that the writer’s original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader’s. Running a close second was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“book-buyers want a good story to take with them on the airplane, something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages. This happens, I think, when readers recognize the people in a book, their behaviors, their surroundings, and their talk. When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“More specifically, I’d hike enough to become accustomed to twelve to fifteen mile treks, perhaps doing them three to four times monthly in the six to twelve months leading up to the trip.”
― Julie Rains, Hiking the Tour du Mont Blanc: A Brief Guide to Enjoying Yourself on the TMB

“Whoever realizes the Void* is filled with life and power and the love of all beings’.”
― Bruce Thomas, Bruce Lee: Complete Teachings