#ions

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange. ↗

— Robert Kegan

#lifestyles #reactions #society #tendencies #traditions

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button? ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#lifestyle #teenagers #lifestyle

The Virgin Mary is called the [Greek words] (the "book of the Word of life") by the Greek Church. The book of the Gospel, the book of Christ's origins and life, can be written and proclaimed because God has first written his living Word in the living book of the Virgin's being, which she has offered to her Lord in all its purity and humility—the whiteness of a chaste, empty page. If the name of Mary does not often appear in the pages of the Gospel as evident participant in the action, it is because she is the human ground of humility and obedience upon which every letter of Christ's life is written. She is the Theotokos, too, in the sense that she is the book that bears, and is inscribed with, the Word of God. She keeps her silence that he might resonate the more plainly within her. ↗

— Erasmo Leiva Merikakis

#gospel-of-matthew #mary #meditations #catholicism

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#death #effects #explosions #family #human

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. ↗

— Giotto di Bondone

#echoes #illusions #rome #yearning

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations. ↗

— Todd Bridges

#deserve #explanations #need

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on. ↗

— William Labov

#clear #dialects #different #divisions #each

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#discouraged #getting #how #i #learned

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple. ↗

— Cheryl Ladd

#god #golf #golf game #i #life

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions. ↗

— Cheryl Ladd

#because #being #children #discipline #i