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ruminativerabbi · 3 years ago

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What To Read This Fall

As I embark on this, my seventeenth year of writing weekly on matters close to my heart (and, I hope, also to yours), I’d like to talk about three books I’ve read over the holiday season that affected me in different ways.

The first is David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count, a remarkable volume published earlier this year by TLS Books in London. The author, whose name was unknown to me before reading the book, is apparently a well-known British comedian. (He was actually born in Troy, New York, in 1964, but has basically lived his entire life in the U.K.) But this book is not at all funny. Just the opposite, actually: it is 123 pages of very angry prose directed at a world that simply refuses to take anti-Semitism seriously as a form of pernicious racism. Mostly, his fire is aimed at progressives and liberals. But although there is more than enough ammunition left over for him also to take aim at right-of-center groups and conservatives, he’s particularly enraged at people on the left for whom the slightly hint of racism or bigotry is intolerable, yet who seem more than able to tolerate even overtly-stated, ham-fisted anti-Semitic remarks without reacting even slightly negatively, let alone with real revulsion or even feigned outrage.

Even though the book itself is really just an extended (a very extended) essay on the topic, the author has more than enough ammunition at the ready to buttress his point. Over and over he cites instances of public figures, including A-list celebrities, making overt or allusive anti-Semitic comments without facing any sort of public censure, let alone being “cancelled” in the way people who make openly disparaging remarks about other minority groups become personae non gratae overnight and are, at least in some cases, never heard from again. Some of the people he quotes will be familiar to American readers, but others will not be. Nonetheless, his analysis of the reason the comments those personalities are cited as having made are more than tolerated by the liberal public—for the most part because speaking negatively about Jewish people, Jewishness, or Judaism is somehow legitimized with reference to some specific ethnos-wide character trait that people can legitimately use as a rational basis for hate—will be familiar to any Jewish reader who lives out there in the world, who reads a daily newspaper, or who spends time wandering around in the blogosphere.

The author draws an interesting portrait of himself. He declares himself not to be a Zionist, which I take to mean that he has neither any specific interest in the fate of the State of Israel or sense of a personal stake in its wellbeing. So that puts him outside the camp in which an overwhelming majority of Jewish people I know live. And the author also self-defines as an atheist with no specific allegiance to Jewish ritual or belief, thus putting him even further outside the ranks of the kind of Jewish people who occupy the world I personally inhabit. In many ways, his prose made me think of him as the latter-day version of those German Jews in the 1930s who were so busy being German that they were amazed that the Nazis considered them to be part of the Jewish problem at all. (There’s a certain irony in that thought too, given that Baddiel’s grandparents fled Nazi Germany.) Perhaps that lack of connection to traditional Jewish values or beliefs and his disconnection from Israel is what fuels his rage—he (and so many like him) see themselves as having done nothing to offend, as holding no beliefs that set them apart from the British mainstream, as being as properly ill at ease regarding Israel’s vigorous efforts to defend itself—so how dare the world refuse to censure, or let alone to cancel, people who are overtly anti-Semitic in the way those very same people would never dream of tolerating homophobic or anti-Black racist comments!

I recommend the book strongly, despite all of the above comments. It is a short read, but a forceful, dynamic statement that readers on this side of the Atlantic will have no trouble translating into local terms. It is upsetting, and in a dozen different ways. But that only makes it more, not less, important and worth your time to find and read.

The second book I’d like to write about today is Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews, published this summer by W.W. Norton. The author, born in New Jersey in 1977, has taught at Sara Lawrence and at CUNY. Some of my readers will know her work from essays published in The Atlantic and the New York Times. And she has written five novels, mostly recently A Guide for the Perplexed in 2013 and Eternal Life in 2018. People Love Dead Jews is her first book-length work of non-fiction.

The book itself, about 100 pages longer than Baddiel’s, is also about anti-Semitism, but is written in an entirely different key—one given away subtly by the book’s subtitle, Reports from a Haunted Present. And, indeed, the book’s twelve chapters, while all discrete essays that can be read separately and without reference to each other, are also all rooted in the same soil: the author’s slow, eventual understanding and coming to terms with the fact that most of the way the world thinks about Jews—and, even more to the point, the way Jews think about the way the world thinks about Jews—are floating along somewhere between dishonest and disingenuous. Her opening chapter, for example, about Anne Frank points out that the great success of her diary rests to a great extent on the endlessly cited passage in which Anne, still hiding in the Achterhuis and hoping to live to adulthood in a liberated Holland, writes that she still believes, “in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” She surely changed her mind when she got first to Auschwitz and then to Bergen-Belsen, where she and her sister Margot died in the spring of 1945. But that detail, unpalatable to those who wish to see Anne not as a murdered Jewish child but as an apostle of universalist optimism, is generally ignored. And so, to address that issue specifically, Horn provides an obituary for an imaginary Anne who survived the camps and lived into her 90s, and who definitely did not end up thinking that all people, presumably including the guards at Auschwitz, are truly good at heart. It’s that kind of writing that will grab readers from the very beginning and keep them engaged to the end.

The three chapters devoted to the rising level of anti-Semitism in the United States should be required reading for all Americans, but particularly for Jewish Americans still living in their grandparents’ fantasy world regarding the impossibility of America ever engendering its own violent version of “real” anti-Semitism, the kind that moves quickly past quotas and sneers to actual violence, including the lethal kind that cost those poor people in Pittsburgh their lives one Shabbat morning in 2018. Yes, the book is uneven. The admittedly fascinating chapter about her trip to Harbin, China, is at least twice as long as it needed to be. The chapter about the recent Auschwitz exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage is unfocused, the author’s point (at least to me) unclear. The chapter about The Merchant of Venice will leave most readers without university degrees in Shakespeare at least slightly confused. But the book itself is wonderful—thoughtful, intelligent, challenging, and stimulating. I recommend it to all without hesitation.

And the third book I want to recommend for my readers’ reading pleasure this fall is Noam Zion’s Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy, published earlier this year by the Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia. The other two books were short, perhaps even too short, but no one will say that about Zion’s book, which weighs in at almost 550 pages. But potential readers who allow themselves to be put off by the book’s size would be making a huge error of judgment—the book is long and complicated because its subject is complicated and the sources he cites, often at length, are many and complex. But the book itself is a true tour-de-force and deserves to be considered in that context.

Most readers, used to thinking of sex as something antithetical (or at least unrelated) to religious philosophy, will be amazed to learn how seriously rabbis writing over the last two millennia have taken the very same topics that engage moderns when the talk turns to intimate matters: the limits and boundaries of marital fidelity, the relationship of fantasy to reality in the healthy sexual context, the possibility of legitimate sexual liaisons outside of marriage, the relationship of homosexuality to heterosexuality (and, by extension, of gay people to straight people with respect to the legitimacy of their coupling), the precise nature of the obligation spouses bear to provide sexual satisfaction to each other, and the relationship of reproductive possibility to ongoing sexual activity in the absence of such possibility.

The book is organized chronologically with respect to the sources the author cites, but most readers will be far more impressed by the breadth and depth of the sources than by their relationship to each other chronologically. Many of the authors cited, particularly from the Haredi world, will be unknown to almost all readers. Only a tiny percentage of them wrote in any language other than Hebrew or Yiddish. An even smaller percentage have had their books or essays translated into other languages. As a result, reading Zion’s book is something like being ushered into an art gallery featuring works of great creativity and depth by painters you’re slightly amazed never to have heard of. (I include myself in that category, by the way: almost all the books, essays, and pamphlets cited in the 150-odd pages on Haredi authors were unknown to me.) But the breadth and depth of Noam Zion’s reading of these books, and his willingness—given the riven nature of the Jewish world, his truly remarkable willingness—to consider these men (all of them are men) and their writings in light of writing on the topic by my own colleagues in the Rabbinical Assembly, by authors affiliated with various Reform Jewish institutions, and (even more impressively) with feminist authors of various sorts, that is truly what makes of this book something that my own readers should think twice about not reading.

Noam Zion is a friend. His home in Jerusalem is just a few blocks from our apartment. His wife taught the Lamaze course Joan and I took when we were anticipating the birth of our first child. I mention all that merely to be fully transparent, but also so that I can also say that I would recommend his book this highly even if he and I were not acquainted personally. It is a magisterial work on a complex topic that all readers interested in Jewish thought and its relationship to practice will find fascinating.

And those are the three books I would like to recommend to you all as autumn reading you’ll enjoy and find stimulating and very interesting.

#Noam Zion #Dara Horn #David Baddiel #anti-Semitism

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actionlu · 3 years ago

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Lines from our favourite books that will stay with you forever

The strength of a good line from a book can give us a little extra help picking ourselves up in moments of need. With that in mind, the Actionlu review team have collated some of the most uplifting quotes from literature that are guaranteed to put a spring back in your step.

Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.”

- L.M. Montgomery

The Goldfinch

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”

– Donna Tart

Wild

“It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.”

– Cheryl Strayed

Dracula

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”

- Bram Stroker

My Antonia

“At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”

- Willa Cather

Infinite Jest

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

- David Foster Wallace

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if only someone remembers to turn on the light.”

– J.K. Rowling

Beloved

“You are your best thing.”

– Toni Morrison

Les Miserables

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

- Victor Hugo

East Of Eden

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

- John Steinbeck

The Diary Of A Young Girl

"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

- Anne Frank

Oh, The Places You'll Go

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”

- Dr Seuss

Brida

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

- Paulo Coelho

A Room Of One's Own

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

– Virginia Woolf

The Alchemist

“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realise his dream.”

– Paulo Coelho

Peter Pan

“Just think happy thoughts and you’ll fly.”

– J.M. Barrie

Jane Eyre

"I would rather be happy than dignified."

– Charlotte Brontë

The Little Prince

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Stand

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”

– Stephen King

Of Human Bondage

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

- W. Somerset Maugham

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doettler · 3 years ago

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts...Gemini's are known for being natural communicators, self-absorbed, curious, for having an outstanding observation of reality, and for understanding truth’s malleability. Eloquent people that have a way with words, spoken or written, these writers will express themselves so well that they will make you forget about time and space when reading them. “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” “You see, but you do not observe.” Arthur Conan Doyle Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!' Anne Frank “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” Rick Riordan Es un error capital teorizar antes de tener datos. Insensiblemente uno comienza a tergiversar los hechos para adaptarlos a las teorías, en lugar de las teorías a los hechos... Los Géminis son conocidos por ser comunicadores naturales, ensimismados, curiosos, por tener una observación sobresaliente de la realidad y por comprender la maleabilidad de la verdad. Personas elocuentes que tienen un don con las palabras, habladas o escritas, estos escritores se expresarán tan bien que te harán olvidar el tiempo y el espacio al leerlos. "¿Cuántas veces te he dicho que cuando hayas eliminado lo imposible, lo que quede, por improbable que sea, debe ser la verdad?" "Ves, pero no observas". Arthur Conan Doyle “Quien no lo sepa, debe aprender y descubrir por experiencia que "una conciencia tranquila nos hace fuertes". Ana Frank “Si mi vida va a significar algo, tengo que vivirla yo mismo". Rick Riordan #gemini #geminis #writers #escritor #escritores #frases #quotes #astrologia #astrology #rickriordan #annefrank #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #diario #diary #myth #literatura #literature #words #art #arte #artist #cover #artistsoninstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CQYvAMFnlRy/?utm_medium=tumblr

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hamnen · 8 years ago

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Who is Pamela Sacred?

Last night I fell down a weird internet rabbit hole.

The wikipedia article for magic realism contains a subheading about “New media”, where two examples are listed. The first is Michael Joyce’s afternoon, a story, a legendary piece of hypertext fiction, written in 1987. The second example is Pamela Sacred’s La Voie de l’Ange, “a continuation of The Diary of Anne Frank written in French by a fictional character from her Venetian Cell hypertext saga.” If you’ve never heard of this second story, that’s because it might not exist… I think.

A google search of “Pamela Sacred” returns absolutely nothing about electronic literature or Anne Frank. The mysterious author doesn’t even appear to have a googlegänger, since I can’t find a single person with that name. The closest results are the internet presences of some women named Pamela with connections to things with “Sacred” in the title. Like Pamela Zagarenski, who runs the etsy store Sacred Bee; or Pamela Buck, associate professor at Sacred Heart University. The top result for “Venetian Cell” appears to be a flickr group of the same name, with 1 member and 0 photos, but not much else. “La voie de l’ange” is the name of an actual book, but it’s not written by a fictional character within a hypertext story, it’s by two real-world men named Hugues Paindestre and Frédéric Pirnay.

The only things on the internet I could find relating to Pamela Sacred and her work are pages that word for word quote the wikipedia article for magic realism. Of course, the original article contains no citation.

The inclusion of Sacred’s work in the article in the first place came in 2012, by a user with a Chinese IP address. The user has made a handful of other edits to wikipedia articles over the years, including also adding Pamela Sacred and La Voie de l’Ange to the French language article for magic realism. That edit was removed by another editor only a couple hours later, but the one on English wikipedia has stayed there, for almost five years now.

In confusion, I posted to the article’s Talk page, asking if anyone knew about this. But, given that there’s only been 5 other posts there in the past 2.5 years, I’m not really holding my breath for a quick answer.

This is the part of the story where I might be expected to find a trail leading me to the answer, but that has not happened, at least not yet. Obviously, there are places of the internet I haven’t searched thoroughly yet, and I really do believe that something is out there. Hey, maybe I’m just terrible at googling, and this entire thing is stupid. In any case, until I find what I’m looking for, I figured I would put this little mystery here on my shitty blog with an audience of none, just to get it out into the world. If you know anything about this, please get in touch with me. <3

#pamela sacred #venetian cell #la voie de l'ange #internet rabbit hole #mystery

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livinglondon · 8 years ago

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Welcome To The Venice Of The North

Amsterdam is a land of bicycles, canals and pancakes. This weekend I made my first international journey completely on my own. Getting to London was one thing, but this time I didn’t have my parents to drive me to the airport or a group of SU students to accompany me on the flight. My friend Nikki and I set our alarms for 3:00am to make our way to London’s Gatwick airport for our 8am flight. After seeing a couple of guys set of the alarms at KFC, catching a bus to Victoria Station and walking behind some circus carnies, I hopped on the Gatwick express and was on my way.

Upon landing in Amsterdam at 10am on Friday morning, we managed to grab a taxi and get to our hostel. I’m not going to lie, we weren’t totally prepared for the weather. Last time I checked the lovely handy-dandy weather app it said that the weekend would be 40 and sunny. It was 30 and snowing - hard. We threw our luggage into a locker, got our hats and gloves and headed out to explore Amsterdam first hand.

Our first stop was a small restaurant called GS (reallyniceplace.com) for lunch. The place was covered in comics and its menu was printed on records giving it an 80’s movie feel. This place had a rave reviews for its bloody marys so I decided to take a risk and have a taste. I drank about a quarter of the glass before pushing it to the edge of the table. Needless to say it wasn't the drink for me.

For the afternoon, we had planned on going on a free walking tour of the city but because Nikki only had a pair of keds we opted to go shopping instead. We made our way to the city’s famous floating flower market where we saw tulips, peonies, chrysanthemums and more flowers that provide a pop of color against the grey skyline. We also check out “De 9 Straatjes”, nine streets famous for shopping. I’m just going to be blunt and say every store screamed hipster. There were stores full of little knick-knacks, books and clothing I would never be able to pull off.

After loosening our wallets a bit, we decided on a whim to take a canal cruise during sunset which was too beautiful to put into words. Over a pink sky we got to see all of Amsterdam’s exquisite architecture, boat homes, and even the famous tiny bridge all lit up. Due to the unexpected snow storm, this was the perfect way to see many of Amsterdam’s famous landmarks such as the Dutch National Opera & the Ballet House, EYE, and Centraal Station. We ended the night with a dinner of champions at the Pancake Bakery. The pancakes were crepe like but the size of a pizza and they had toppings of all kinds. I was so excited to eat mine that I forgot to take a picture but trust me it was amazing.

Our ride for the evening.

Although I forgot to take a photo of my pancake I did have this delicious hot chocolate served with a tiny caramel filled waffle that I found I can buy at M&S!

We woke up bright and early on Saturday to begin our day of visiting as many tourists attractions as we could. Our first stop was my favorite part of the trip - the Anne Frank House. Having read Anne Frank’s diary as a kid several times I was always intrigued at the thought of visiting the place where Anne wrote it and called home. I wasn’t prepared for how overwhelming it would be to walk up the stairs hidden behind the original bookcase, see the scratches marking her and Margaret’s growth on the walls and read from the pages of her original diary. We grew up learning about the atrocities of World War 2 and listening to the stories of Jewish families that suffered, but this was my first time actually seeing a piece of the war and it made me realize just how fragile the life you know is.

As any John Green fan would know a tear jerking scene from The Fault In Our Stars was filmed in the Anne Frank House and a good portion of the book took place in Amsterdam. So before grabbing some lunch, we trekked through the snow to the infamous TFIOS bench. After getting lost a couple of times we found the waterside bench along a quiet residential street. The bench was covered in signatures, declarations of love and quotes from the book. People also placed locks on the bench like the love lock bridge in Paris. Although I couldn’t feel my fingertips at this point my fangirl heart was full.

Okay? Okay.

Our next stop was the Van Gogh museum where you could see all of his famous artworks except for Starry Night. It was wonderful to see Van Gogh's sunflowers, bedroom and self portraits but even more incredible to learn about his life and the inspiration behind his artwork. The gift shop also had our favorite souvenir of all time - a key ring with a giant blue ear cruelly called an ear-ring.

We proceeded to take our picture in front of the I Amsterdam sign, walk through the archway of the Rijksmuseum, admire the beautiful snow covered Vondelpark and grab some bitterballen as a snack. Side note, I never ate so much good food as I did in Amsterdam. From the pancakes, to the cheese and bitterballen, my tastebuds were constantly satisfied.

A little friend in Vondelpark

Now I didn’t really know what to expect at the Heineken Experience but I was pleasantly surprised. It was basically a Disney amusement ride for adults. We got a history of the brand, a tour of the Willy Wonka esque factory and were even sprayed with water during a 3D movie. After being forced to chug down our first of 3 beers we entered a disco party, did some karaoke while riding bikes and took some silly pictures in a photo booth. Heineken is my favorite beer now just because of how fun those three hours were.

Afterwards we grabbed dinner at an Italian place with great service, delicious ice cream and a house cat. We were absolutely exhausted so we hopped on a tram back to our hostel and called it an early night.

Despite the constant smell of weed, unwelcome snow, and near death experiences trying to cross the road without getting hit by a cyclist or tram, Amsterdam was an incredible city. I kept feeling like I was a fairytale with the snow covered cobblestone streets, deep blue water, tiny homes and bridges decorated with sparkly lights. Although I wasn’t expecting the snow, it was wonderful to be in this weird winter wonderland for a weekend. However, I was beyond ready to be back in London where bikes are rare and the public transport is faster than walking.

Here’s to surviving my first international - international trip and practicing my French for next weekend’s trip to Paris.

Au revoir,

Sara

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gethealthy18-blog · 5 years ago

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101 “I Love You” Quotes To Express How You Feel

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101 “I Love You” Quotes To Express How You Feel

Harini Natarajan Hyderabd040-395603080 June 28, 2019

George Sand said it right. “There is only one happiness in life. To love and be loved.”

But you know what’s very important to keep the love alive? Express it. Say it out loud. Sometimes, a simple ‘I love you so much’ can be enough. Sometimes, you need more!

Looking for quotes to tell them how special they are to you? We’ve got you covered! Here’s a round-up of 101 best “I love you” quotes.

101 Quotes To Say “I Love You”

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” – George Moore

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the “i” in loving; ‘Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.” – Edmond Rostand

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte

“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.” – Alexandra Penney

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” – John Lennon

“Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.” – Alexis Delp

“Falling in love consists merely of uncorking the imagination and bottling the common–sense.” – Helen Rowland

“When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” – Leo Tolstoy

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.” – Elizabeth Cameron

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“True love is spelled G–I–V–E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.” – Josh McDowell

“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint–Exupery

“Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.” – Whitney Otto

“The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.” – Anonymous

“All’s fair in love and war.” – Francis Edwards

“Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.” – Crystal Middlemas

“If I had one more night to live, I would want to spend it with you.” – Pearl Harbour

“When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.” – Dr. John Gray

“You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.” – David Levesque

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“Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.” – Stephen Packer

“We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.” – Brian Andres

“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Francois Marie Arouet

“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” – Anonymous

“The first duty of love — is to listen.” – Paul Tillich

“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re still alive.” – A. Battista

“Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still.” – Leo Buscaglia

“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” – Elizabeth Bowen

“I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left its dwelling place … and can return no more.” – John Clare

“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.” – Ed Sheeran

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“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Love recognizes no barriers.” – Maya Angelou

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“We are most alive when we’re in love.” – John Updike

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” – Blaise Pascal

“Love is friendship that has caught fire.” – Ann Sanders

“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” – Princess Diana

“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“A simple “I love you” means more than money.” – Frank Sinatra

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“Everything I do, I do it for you.” – Bryan Adams

“… it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.” – E.A. Bucchianeri

“It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.” – Bertrand Russell

“Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.” – Daniel Monroe Tuttle

“You’ll never really know when he really loves you till he looks you in the eyes, grabs your hand, and says it.” – Meg Rogers

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – William Shakespeare

“Love is not blind – It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.” – Will Moss

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov

“Once in a while, in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” – Anonymous

“Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone. It’s not warm when she’s away. Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, and she’s always gone too long, anytime she goes away.” – Bill Withers

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“You Deserve Love, And You’ll Get It.” – Amy Poehler

“I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” – Winnie The Pooh

“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach

“There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love.” – Bob Dylan

“Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because the reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” – Rita Rudner

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

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“You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” – Rhett Butler, Gone With the Wind

“I like you very much. Just as you are.” – Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Personally, I love a great love story.” – Meghan Markle

“Love is the flower; you’ve got to let it grow.” – John Lennon

“Maybe I don’t know that much but I know this much is true, I was blessed because I was loved by you.” – Celine Dion

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – When Harry Met Sally

“Love loves to love love.” – James Joyce

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald

“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.” – Beyonce

“The smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa

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“Some love stories aren’t epic novels. Some are short stories, but that doesn’t make them any less filled with love.” – Sex & The City

“All you need is love.” – The Beatles

“Love was made for me and you.” – Nat King Cole

“I’d never lived before your love”.– Kelly Clarkson

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato

“You had me at Hello!” – Jerry Maguire

“True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de la Fontaine

“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” – Mandy Hale

“True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.” – John Green

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“True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!” – Dada Vaswani

“True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.” – Sadhu Vaswani

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.” – Kiera Cass

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal

“True love lasts forever.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

“True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.” – Holliday Grainger

“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” – Honore de Balzac

“True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.” – Billy Graham

“True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.” – Ricardo Montalban

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare

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“Life is a game and true love is a trophy.” – Rufus Wainwright

“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.” – Torquato Tasso

“I love true love, and I’m a woman who wants to be married for a lifetime. That traditional life is something that I want.” – Ali Larter

“True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.” – Julia Roberts

“True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.” – Antoine de Saint–Exupery

“True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.” – Justin Timberlake

“Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.” – Tori Spelling

“It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they’re destined to be.” – Michelle Yeoh

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” – Leo Tolstoy

“You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.” – Courtney Thorne–Smith

“Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.” – Tom Freston

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Best Spirituality Quotes

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” ― Nicolas Chamfort

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.” ― John Lennon

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” ― Anaïs Nin

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.” ― Mother Teresa

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A quiet conscience makes one strong!” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” ― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

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No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here's a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn't stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on Bright Eyes.4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.6) Nadia Comaneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 2313) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 2414) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures David and Pieta by age 2818) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech I Have a Dream.24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and 49 years old when he wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver's order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote The Hunger Games34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote The Cat in the Hat.40) Chesley Sully Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President. A quote from, Pablo .For more picture and video quotes, check out our site at http://WhoSaid.Xyz

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Change Your Story: Change Your Brain

Dr. Linda Miles has over thirty-five years of training as a psychotherapist and has authored several books, including The New Marriage, which was chosen as a finalist for Forward Book of the Year Award. She has been a guest on national radio and television, and her articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and Miami Herald. Additional Revisions for the Book: Freedom From Mental Captivity: Lessons From a Concentration Camp Prisoner.........................................................6

Freedom Within: How MindfulnessLiberated Anne Frank .....................................................................

6. In his book A Simple Heart, French novelist Gustave Flaubert examines the life of a maid named Felicite (a word that literally means “intense happiness”), who would appear to have an insignificant job and humdrum life. Flaubert wrote the book during an era when servitude was popular; he craftedFelicite as an extremely poor young woman who endured great hardships before being employed by a well-to-do family.

7. Freedom Within: How Mindfulness Liberated Anne Frank “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” –Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl 8. As I practice this breathing technique here in the waiting room of the doctor’s office, waiting for my doctor to present to me the surgery options, I notice that the wallpaper is a lovely beige-and-blue pattern with pleasant muted pyramids. There is a small cloisonné mirror in a corner that I’ve never noticed before. I hear the strains of a familiar song that transport me to a happier time.

9. Do you ever stop to register how your entire body is feeling? The above quote is derived from the inspirational book, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, written by Philip Yancy and surgeon Dr. Paul Brand. 10. Pema Chodron is among those who take mindfulness one step further. She is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist, ordained nun, and author. She strongly advocates the Buddhist meditation practice called Tonglen, which is Tibetan for “sending and receiving”. This technique is about visualizing taking in suffering—one’s personal suffering and/or the suffering of others—with each inhaling breath, and giving out acknowledgment, compassion, solidarity, and aid during each exhaling breath. In this practice, you make room in your heart and mind for suffering and breathe out healing to yourself and others who are experiencing similar pain. Breathe in pain, fear, or anger; b reathe out healing for yourself and others who are stuck in similar states of suffering.

In practice, it can increase your own peace of mind, thereby spreading more harmony and happiness to your surroundings. Dr. Brand felt compassion and identification with the patients that helped transform his inner life and bring healing to others.

Personally I have had the privilege of working with a group of terminally ill cancer patients. What floored me was their vibrancy, their joie de vivre; they took such delight in every moment because they knew that their lives would soon end. Mindfulness is about the celebration of the miracle of life that we so often take for granted. Everyday miracles, “simple” miracles, such as seeing, feeling, hearing, smelling, and tasting—these are so overlooked, so underrated, yet so important. If we thought that we were going to wake up tomorrow and not be able to see, feel, smell, or hear, then we would cherish our senses more.

#DR.LINDA MILES

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