Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
Joyce Meyer
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Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
Joyce Meyer
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/criticism.html
Sherry Turkle :
Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.
[Sherry Turkle (b. 1948), U.S. sociologist and psychologist. The Second Self, ch. 9 (1984)
“The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise
himself if no one else did.” – Okonkwo
http://www.unc.edu/~hhalpin/ThingsFallApart/Proverbs.html
http://www.everythingeggs.ca/2009/07/egg-quotes-and-proverbs/
“We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great foetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least — call it a mechanospiritual sense — we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.”
― Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography
To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing– that demands real effort. ”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
“What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God’s eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.”
― C.S. Lewis
foto – XPT coming into Urunga railway station Jan 2013
Henry Lawson (1899). Music by Tony Miles (1981)
At suburban railway stations – you may see them as you pass –
There are signboards on the platform saying ‘Wait here second class’:
And to me the whirr and thunder and the cluck of running gear
Seems to be forever saying, saying ‘Second class wait here’ –
Chorus
Wait here second class
Second class wait here
Yes, the second class were waiting in the days of serf and prince.
And the second class are waiting – they’ve been waiting ever since,
There are gardens in the background, and the line is dark and drear,
Yet they wait beneath a signboard, sneering, ‘Second class wait here’.
http://railwaysongs.blogspot.com.au/2008/11/2nd-class-wait-here.html
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Learning to stumble through life without the comfort of booze.
A sweary alcohol recovery blog written by a Yorkshireman
Adventures in Addiction Recovery & Cancer Survival
A woman's quest for one year of sobriety
A mom, wife and professional's journey on recovering from addiction
I used to drink and now I don't
ACoA Recovery Issues (adult-children of alcoholics & other narcissists)
Watching life as it passed by
Editing and Creative Services
WHERE TO START WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START
Daily Recovery Messages
biographical, non-fiction
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