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Ego sends a lot of messages through the sub-conscious that do not serve our true nature, even a little bit.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

The ego is never satisfied. So, if you're not satisfied with what you have right now, consider what is driving you.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

There are only about 30,000 really important books in the world. I suppose about 5,000 of them were written in the English language, and 5,000 more have been translated. - Roger Mifflin

The Haunted Bookshop

Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.

Rites of Passage

The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Fle...

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.

Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

I’m in my junior year but I can’t take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.

The Language of Baklava: A Memoir

Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.

Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and Its Background 1100-1500

What you look for in the world influences what materializes. What you perceive in the people around you influences how they show up.

Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Searching for God Knows What

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

The Pursuit of Happyness

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places

Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.

Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.

Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort...

Patrick Rothfuss