Quotes of: Degenerates Keyword

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

The Raven Warrior

There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.

Scarlet

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a--- Mother! I was going to say arm.

Seduction of a Proper Gentleman

It is a pure soul who can hold true the in­no­cence and time­less­ness of pas­sion in an­oth­er soul. Each un­veil­ing the great­est pieces of the oth­er, locked to­geth­er at the heart for eter­ni­ty

Saving Grace

A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.

Summer Island

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

Summer Island

The gentleman had been an uncommonly affable fellow, but every time he counted to twenty (and he seemed to do so with strange frequency), he skipped the number twelve.

The Sum of All Kisses

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.

Magdalene

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

Monster High

Looking back, I realized that we were being raised to be schizophrenic; an appearance of perfection was more important than genuine feelings

My Feudal Lord

The revolution in Sheol I had beaten the odds. With the right reasons, at the right moment, even the most beaten and broken of people could rise up and reclaim themselves.

The Mime Order

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

The Map of the Sky

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

The Map of Time

There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.

The Map of Time