#met

...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing. ↗

— Lianne Downey

#past-livesves #reincarnation #spirituality #change

Metaphors are one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal as a presenter. In today's fast-paced world of communication, a well-thought-out metaphor acts as a shortcut to meaning. ↗

— Bruna Martinuzzi

#metaphors #communication

Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#communication

I’ve always hated the “Who are you?" question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we’re on earth. You can’t answer it in thirty seconds or in an elevator. ↗

— Sandy Nathan

#metaphysical #new-age #philosophy #age

Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift on it. His body was a city and his mind a citadel. All communications between the two seemed to have been cut, but within the keep that was his mind he still had power. The part of his consciousness that was telling him the pain did not hurt, and that all things were like other things, was like...like...he found it hard to think of a comparison. A magic mirror, maybe. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#pain #communication

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#be true #careful #good #look #nothing

How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#gunmetal-magic #raphael #courage

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us. ↗

— Maude Adams

#best #day #enough #hard #hard thing

You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing. ↗

— Terrell Davis

#championships #league #missing #person #something

Sometimes you just have to put everything you got out there and screw the consequences. Sometimes you have to jump and trust someone else to catch you. Sometimes you have to put your dignity aside and beg ↗

— Robin Kaye

#life #sometomes #courage