When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
Criss JamiTags: consciousness honesty man human-nature psychology punishment lying reaction self-defense response penalize unconscious-mind
A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.
J.D. StroubeTags: life inspirational choice world fate reaction decision lives stranger course chain monumental alter domino
The author indicts "our culture's rush toward efficiency, speed, quantification, and distraction" and counters with the value of "the time and attention required to find the best words and images and then hold them together in ways that illuminate. This, she diagnoses, "is now wildly countercultural. It is inefficient. Its value is not readily quantifiable. Its utility is intangible.
Cherie HarderTags: thinking reaction meditation overstimulation
Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards.
Pollyanna DarlingTags: opportunity reaction truth-of-life
If she understood the difference between referring to me as "the gay guy" and using my name, the knowledge was lost between her vapid gaze and her single AAA-battery brain.
John GoodeTags: schools gay reaction invisibility coming-out
You're only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty.
Kelli Jae BaeliTags: honesty relationships reaction
Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.
H.W. BrandsTags: education reaction young-adult
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: philosopher reaction observation interpretation artistic training philosophy-of-life observe reactions human-existence stimulation reality-of-life adam-gottbetter
... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.
Nathaniel HawthorneTags: men shame attitude reaction low gloom house-of-the-seven-gables crushed-spirit
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